
What is recorded here
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched roped thatch roof with low chimneystack. Whitewashed stone walls, with door and one window in rear wall. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window, and replacement timber casement windows, with rendered sills. Square-headed doorway with timber battened door and half-door. Thatched outbuilding to north-east.
This thatched house is typical of vernacular houses in the west of Ireland, having a direct-enty plan form and opposed doorways in the long walls. The pitched roof with a covering of roped thatch locates the building to the Atlantic seaboard. This house is now a rare surviving intact vernacular thatched house in Árainn, increasing its importance for the island's heritage. Its setting is enhanced by its association with the thatched house on the opposite side of the road.
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Places near here
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CrossCross, High cross · 197 yd
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Kilmurvey BeachBeach / strand · 1.3 mi
Seal Colony LookoutViewpoint · 2.8 mi
An tOileán ThiarIslet · 2.9 mi
An CharcairMountain / peak · 3.1 mi
Trá na mBuailte (Beach of the Booly)Beach / strand · 4.6 miOther information
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