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house — SHALWY

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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, still occupied. Pitched/domed thatched roof (recently renewed) having smooth rendered chimneystack to the east gable end and having pegs for securing ropes/nets over thatch at eaves level to both the front (south) and the rear (south) elevations, and to the gable end. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having two sills and replacement multiple-pane timber casement windows. Modern window openings to the rear elevation (north) having single-pane timber casement windows. Central square-headed door opening having replacement timber sheeted door. Set back from road with gravel forecourt to the south and with lawn to the rear (north) and to the east. Set in elevated position with views over The Atlantic Ocean to the south. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Killybegs and the east/south-east of Kilcar. Single-storey outbuilding adjacent to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorways having timber sheeted doors.

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