The iconic ‘Tin Shop’ near Donegal town could be demolished over the coming months.
Eithne Martin has lodged a planning application to Donegal County Council seeking permission to raze the corrugated structure along the main N15 road near Barnesmore Gap.
The former shop was erected around 1915, and closed in 2006, is listed as being of regional importance by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH).
“Although now out of use, this charming and quite picturesque former shop retains its early form, character and much of its early fabric,” a 2007 NIAH report states.
“It was probably initially built as a temporary structure, hence the use of a cheap material such as corrugated-metal, but it has survived in good condition.”
However, the building has fallen into a state of disrepair in more recent years.
According to local information, this structure may have been originally built as a meeting house or an Orange Hall, and possibly moved there from another location. There is a ‘Wesleyan Methodist Meeting House’ indicated on a 1907 map just to the south of the present site of this building.
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