71 Kilmore Road, Drumquin, Omagh, BT78 4PT

A detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling with attic, built around 1820, located on the east side of Kilmore Road in Kilmore Robinson townland. The building has a direct-entry rectangular plan with a windbreak porch to the east, a gabled return and lean-to extension to the west.

The roof is pitched corrugated asbestos sheeting with concrete verges and rendered chimneys. The walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are timber-framed 2/2 and 6/6 sliding sashes with exposed sash boxes and stone sills. Cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes form the rainwater goods. The principal elevation faces east, with a single window in each of the left and right bays and a single window in the central bay flanked to the right by the windbreak porch containing a vertically-sheeted timber door with concrete roof. The south gable is blank with exposed rubble. The west elevation is abutted at its centre by a gabled return containing a vertically-sheeted timber door and at its right by a lean-to extension, with a single window in the exposed left section. The north gable is blank with exposed rubble.

Internally, the building retains a stone staircase, which is unusual as internal stairs were typically constructed of timber. The house comprises a kitchen, two rooms, two small rooms, a loft and one attic bedroom. The attic is noted historically as being used only for lumber.

The property sits within a farmyard containing a range of outbuildings. Immediately to the west and north are single-storey outbuildings with corrugated metal roofs and rubble walling, abutted at gable-ends by further byres and sheds. Directly to the south is a multi-bay stable-block abutted to the east by a higher shed, with a further pair of rubble sheds to the south and a barrel-roofed shed to the south-west. To the east stands a one-and-a-half-storey rubble barn with fieldstone quoins, corrugated metal roof, and openings supported by timber lintels. A single-storey replacement dwelling stands to the east of the range.

This group of buildings forms what might be described as a clachan, a term signifying a group of houses where no formal building such as a shop or post office is present and where occupiers are tied by bonds of kinship. Buildings appear on the site on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The current house appears to be one of these original structures. The buildings do not appear in the Townland Valuation of 1828–40, most likely because they were not deemed to be of sufficient value. In Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64, the plot is divided into three and appears to be occupied by members of the Irwin family, leased from Henry Echlin. The present house was occupied by William Irwin and valued at £1 15 shillings, later revised to £2. In 1910, Charles Irwin became the owner in fee under early twentieth-century land purchase legislation. After 1933, Robert Irwin was the owner, with the house value revised to £2 10 shillings and 10 shillings for outbuildings in an undated change. A contemporary valuer noted that drinking water was a long way off.

The eaves height of the building may have been raised to accommodate the attic, perhaps in the early twentieth century. Although the building retains much of its original character and fabric, loss of the original roof covering and deterioration of the original fabric undermine its character. The building is recorded as derelict and does not merit listing.