Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Cottage
Legmacaffry, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Cottage, Legmacaffry, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 6FB
- Townland
- Legmacaffry
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17651, -7.31943
- Date of survey
- 01 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/065
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 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Demolished to make way for a replacement dwelling.
Historical information
A building is first shown at this location on the 1857 OS 6" map. In 1862 it was occupied by Hanna Murray and was valued at 10s0d. There is no change to its valuation thereafter.
The first HMBB survey card of November 1983 describes the building as a “one storey thatched cottage of four bays. Door in windbreak porch and thatch dressed down to meet it. Scallops at ridge and eaves. Not thatched over gables. One crosswall brick chimney. Double-hung sash windows, two with horizontal divisions. Stone walls.”
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 2nd edition (1857), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/2).
2. Second Valuation book, Galloon Parish, Clones Union, 1862, p.16.
3. HMBB survey card, November 1983.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished to make way for a replacement dwelling.
Nearby in the register
- Railway BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
- Carrigan's HouseHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.