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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1830, with single-bay extension to north gable, windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Round pitched reed thatched roof with latticed restraining ropes, timber stays and pegs, chimneystacks to south gable and centre. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, timber six-over-six horned sash windows. Square-headed door opening, timber panelled half door. Single-bay outbuilding to south-west, round pitched flax thatched roof with latticed restraining ropes and timber pegs, rubble stone walls. Set within own grounds bounds by rubble stone wall.

A good example of this vernacular type in fine condition. The position of chimneys and door is unusual, perhaps suggesting that it was originally a small two-bay house. It represents an important survival preserving a traditional local craft and a building type once much more common in the Irish countryside. Retains much that is of interest including its bed outshot and rope and peg thatch which was a feature of Irish thatched houses in exposed locations particularly in the north-west of the country. One of a group of thatched dwellings which contribute character to their scenic setting. Houses are marked here on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837 where they formed part of a larger settlement which is now gone, but whether this house is one of these or later is unclear from the mapping.