P. Egan — Main Street

The saved account records: End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey public house, built c.1850, having a traditional shopfront and with an integral segmental-headed carriage arch to the west end.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roof, recently reslated, having a rendered chimneystack to east gable end.

The saved account records: Smooth rendered walls to the ground floor with exposed rubble limestone walls over to the first floor, originally rendered, having raised block quoins to the corners.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with stone sills, plain rendered surrounds and replacement windows.

P. Egan — Main Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A simple mid nineteenth-century terrace building, which retains much of its early form and character despite recent alterations resulting in the loss of original fabric to the openings and the removal of the early rendered finish and the slate roof. Of particular interest is the survival of a good quality shopfront, probably of late nineteenth-century date, which is a fine example of its type and helps to elevate this building above many of its neighbours in Moate. This shopfront, like many traditional Irish shopfronts, is based on a simplification of the classical formula of columns and entablature and is a… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.