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The Thatch Bar

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The Thatch Bar
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The Thatch Bar in Townparks has a scalloped thatch ridge worthy of a prizewinning apple tart. You’d nearly cut yourself a slice, only you’d leave the upstairs open and your mother would say you’d taken too much.

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Mid-row three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, now in use as public house. Pitched steep thatched roof with decoratively scolloped raised ridge and rendered end chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed two-over-two pane replacement timber sliding sash windows and double-leaf timber panelled door.
The public house has a fine thatched roof and a simple façade. It is enhanced by its timber sash windows, albeit replacements.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30331004

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Enda O Flaherty, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Rick Crowley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maigheach-gheal, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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