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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, incorporating byre to south gable, with windbreak porch to front and modern thatched extension to rear. Rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire, iron rods and timber pegs, and with chimneystacks to gable ends. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, and with six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings with timber glazed and panelled half-door to windbreak porch and half door to incorporated byre. Set in own grounds adjacent road with modern rubble stone wall to rear. Two ruined outbuildings to north and north-west, formerly thatched with rubble stone walls.

A good example of a thatched vernacular house that has been adapted for modern use. It represents an important survival preserving a traditional local craft and a building type once much more common in the Irish countryside. It retains much that is of interest including thatch, limewashed rubble stone walls and a windbreak porch that are all features of vernacular architecture in this region. It forms part of a clachan, marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, (including sites 40900105, 40900106 and 40900108) giving an insight to the historic settlement pattern and the social, economic and cultural life of the area.