Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
68 Boho Road
Samsonagh, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 7 July 1989
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 68 Boho Road, Samsonagh, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, BT74 5EN
- Townland
- Samsonagh
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.34848, -7.76473
- Date of survey
- 16 April 2003
- HB reference
- HB12/10/025
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single storey, three bay, direct entry stone built thatched house.
The building faces north-east and lies at the end of a long lane that proceeds in a southern direction from the road that travels from Boho to Monea about a mile and a half from the former village.
The building was thatched between cement skews but is now roofless. Of the two chimneys that over the kitchen hearth survives. The loss of the plaster finish reveals that the stonework was built to rough courses and that the extremities of the front elevation terminated in large cut stone quoins.
The sheeted entrance door in a windbreak porch is now missing and the lean-to roof has fallen in. The openings that contained vertically sliding windows, one to the left (south-east) of the porch and two to the right now contain only vestiges of the woodwork. Sills are of traditional depths. There are two small window openings in the rear wall.
A stone-built outbuilding with curved corrugated iron roof and timber sheeted door abuts the south-east gable of the house.
Historical information
This house was built some time after 1857, as it is not shown on the OS map of that year.
The building was first surveyed in 1975 and again in 1987, with no major changes having been carried out in the interim. The house was occupied at the time of the latter survey, but was reported as uninhabitable in 1994.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/2A/4/25A Revised OS map, County Fermanagh sheet 25, with valuation
references (1857-c.62)
Other references
1 EHS Survey of Thatched Buildings by Colin Hatrick, 1992
2 EHS Monitoring of Thatched Buildings, report by Michele McFaul to EHS, May 1994
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
A single storey three bay direct entry stone built thatched house. A former thatched building which has been substantially degraded due to lack of maintennance but which retains its plan , proportion and historic interest. It remains capable of restoration.
Nearby in the register
- CLOGHANE BRIDGEBRIDGEunder 1 mi
- FORMER CONSTABULARY BARRACKHOUSE2 mi
- 132 BOHO ROADHOUSE2 mi
- Hall CraigHOUSE2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.