Tom's Cottage, farm house in County Mayo

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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1838. Extensively renovated, 1998, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of the rural environs of Bohola by such attributes as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31307103

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