Tigh an Rí [The King's House] — An Blascaod Mór [Great Blasket Island] — Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.

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Detached single-bay single-storey former house, built c. 1895, originally part of larger composition, possibly three-bay. Former home of Pádraig Ó Cátháin, 'King of The Blaskets'. Truncated, c. 1960, to accommodate use as outbuilding. Pitched tarred canvas sheeting to roof with cement gable parapet to south end. Random coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with stone lintels and replacement timber-framed casement window. Replacement matchboard door. Overgrown site without landscaping. Remains of continuation of original composition to south-west.

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Tigh an Rí [The King's House] — An Blascaod Mór [Great Blasket Island]

What is recorded here