placenamesDerryall
Doire Ál
A listed house on Farlough Road preserves Derryall’s rural building traditions and a documented succession of thatchers.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Doire Ál · Irish · main form · validated name
- Derryall · English · main form
Place & story
A house on the nineteenth-century map
The historic-building survey dates the house at 50 Farlough Road to between 1835 and 1860, using its appearance on the revised Ordnance Survey map. In the 1862 valuation, James Litter occupied the property and Dawson Tate was the immediate lessor. The adjoining outbuilding was apparently added later. [2]
Thatch and local craftsmanship
The single-storey house has whitened walls, a timber half-door beneath a small thatched porch, and a thatched outbuilding at right angles to it. Recorded roof work involved R. Stevenson in the early 1980s and Gerald Agnew in later repairs. Thatcher George Topping added a decorative cut ridge during his work in the 1990s. The survey notes that this ridge differs from the house’s earlier thatching style. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Civil parish
- Drumcree
- Coordinates
- 54.46993, -6.48827 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 56593 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derryall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derryall thatched house and outbuilding, HB14/01/027 · Department for Communities, Northern Ireland historic buildings survey
- Former Derryall Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Church, as photographed in 2007 illustration: based on a Former Derryall Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Church by P Flannagan. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.