Barn, South Side of the A 47, Big Wood TD, West of Boa Island, Fermanagh, BT93

This unusual two-storey shop and store, built in 1927, represents an innovative adaptation of building materials and techniques more commonly associated with barns and early to mid-20th century farm buildings. Set in an isolated rural location on the south side of the A47 close to the shores of Lower Lough Erne, the building is largely intact both inside and out and is a notable local landmark. Of its type, it is possibly unique within Northern Ireland.

The main structure has a rectangular footprint with a barrel-vaulted roof and presents a gable to the road. A small two-cell lean-to addition occupies the rear, containing a dry closet and store. The building is set back from the road with a metalled forecourt and parking and loading area to the east.

The north front façade is symmetrical, with a central paired timber-sheeted door surmounted by a plain over-light and flanked either side by plain shop windows. The windows have timber-sheeted shutters with metal handles and are removable. Each window has two panes with a central mullion and a cow-nosed sill wrapped in galvanised metal. The first floor is devoid of openings. The eastern side of the main structure is also symmetrical, with a central door and single window openings either side at ground level; the first floor has three evenly spaced similar window openings. These are timber sash windows with two over two lights and margin panes with timber sills. The south façade features a single-storey lean-to addition on the left side, with one door to the east gable and one to the left side of the south face. The western face has no openings. At the centre of the first floor is a bracketed arrangement supporting a galvanised metal water cistern.

The roof and walls are clad entirely in galvanised corrugated-iron. The rainwater goods are galvanised steel, though some sections are now missing.

The building was first recorded as a shop and store in the valuation book dated 1927. It was built by Samuel Quinn, who had acquired the wider plot of land from the Malley family around 1911 and constructed a new house at the end of the lane to the south in 1912. According to his grandson, the current owner, Samuel Quinn made his fortune in America and, shortly after returning home, built the shop—possibly based on similar adaptations of farm structures he had seen in the United States. The shop initially thrived on business brought to the area by the railway, which ran just south of the building, though no halt or station appears to have existed in the immediate vicinity. The shop later passed to Samuel Quinn's son, also named Samuel, who operated it until the late 1970s.