Overview
outbuilding — Ballymagaraghy is recorded as outbuilding in Donegal. Detached two-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1780. Pitched rounded straw thatched roof with rope netting restraint and timber rope stays to eaves.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached two-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1780.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched rounded straw thatched roof with rope netting restraint and timber rope stays to eaves.
How it changed
The saved account records: Square-headed door openings with stone lintels and timber door-frame.
What survives
The saved account records: Set to north of derelict single-storey thatched house.
Why it mattered
outbuilding — Ballymagaraghy matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Although thatched houses are an increasingly rare type, thatched outbuildings are particularly rare. This structure retains its intrinsic scale and form. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrating the subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic variations in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, forming part of an extensive, named, vernacular clachan settlement. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- house — Ballymagaraghybuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Ballymagaraghy Cairn and Standing Stonesmonument0.4 miles
- Standing stone — pair in Ballymagaraghymonument0.4 miles
- Carrowbeg National Schoolbuilding0.5 miles
- house — Arderlybuilding0.5 miles
- Tremone Baybeach0.6 miles
- Carrowbeg Children's Burial Groundmonument0.6 miles
- Standing stone in Ballymagaraghymonument0.6 miles
- outbuilding — Carrowmenaghbuilding0.8 miles
- water pump — Carrowmenaghbuilding0.8 miles
- house — Carrowmenaghbuilding0.9 miles
- Cross-inscribed pillar (present location) in Drumaville (tremone Ed)monument0.9 miles
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