outbuilding — Carrowmenagh

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1800, with single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to south gable.

The saved account records: Rounded pitched straw thatched roof with net restraint and metal rope-stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystack with terracotta pot to south gable.

The saved account records: corrugated-metal roof to extension.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with stone lintel, now boarded up.

outbuilding — Carrowmenagh 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 part of an important group of vernacular structures (40901246 - 40901250). A structure is shown around this area on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, forming part of a named extensive vernacular clachan… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.