Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Crockahilly Road
Dreen, Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Crockahilly Road, Dreen,, Park,, Co Londonderry, B47 4DL
- Townland
- Dreen
- Council
- Derry City and Strabane
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.84751, -7.05583
- Date of survey
- 20 August 1997
- HB reference
- HB01/01/017
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Building demolished. Small outhouse with corrugated metal roof only remains.
Described in the first survey in 1972 as 'A harled and whitened thatched cottage with one chimney. There is a sheeted door and three sashed windows with vertical divisions in the façade. Building extends to south as two-storey corrugated iron roofed outbuilding with external steps'
Historical information
Was on Ordnance Survey Map of 1831.
Recorded as a thatched house in HB survey of 1970.
Demolished in 1979 for use building materials elsewhere.
Primary sources:
1. OS Map 1st Edition 1831, Co Londonderry sheet 29
2. Owner and former occupant of building.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Building demolished. Site vacant and overgrown.
Nearby in the register
- Crockahilly RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Crockahilly RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Tamnagh LodgeHouseunder 1 mi
- Crooked BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.