Thoor Ballylee

House in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1780–1820

Five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with recessed single-bay link attached to fifteenth-century tower house, both restored by W.B. Yeats in 1920. Pitched scolloped reed thatch roof, with rendered chimneystack to south gable. Wetdashed rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened external shutters. Square-headed door openings with smooth render surround and timber battened doors. Tower house has parapet with some machicolations, rubble limestone walls with tooled quoins and pronounced base-batter, square-headed window openings and loop openings with multi-pane timber casement windows, some square-headed window openings with ogee-headed double-lights having tooled mullions, and with tooled limestone plaque to east elevation having words of W.B. Yeats.

Type:

House

Period:

1780–1820

Where:

Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:

53.10°N, 8.78°W

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