Teach an Phiarsaigh [Patrick Pearse's Cottage]

Summerhouse in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1905–1910

Detached three- or four-bay single-storey thatched house, built 1909, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Bunt, 1921. Pitched thatch roof centred on lean-to slate roof (windbreak), paired exposed stretchers to raised ridge, limewashed battered chimney stacks having stepped capping, limewashed coping to gables, and blind stretcher to eaves. Limewashed battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with timber boarded lintel framing timber boarded door. Pair of square-headed (south) or square-headed (north) window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including limewashed parlour with timber boarded doors centred on hearth, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.

Type:

Summerhouse

Period:

1905–1910

Where:

Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:

53.39°N, 9.62°W

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