The Ghost House, Cornarooslan Td, Cooneen, Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh

The Ghost House is a pre-1830 one and a half storey vernacular dwelling in semi-derelict condition, located at Cornarooslan, near Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. The house is constructed throughout of rubble stone and comprises three bays, with a formal approach marked by a straight metalled driveway aligned on the front door and framed by stone ditches, now overgrown. A covered stone well head stands near the far end of the drive, and the driveway opens into a semi-circular sweep against the building's front.

The building is robustly constructed with twin chimneys. All lintels spanning openings are formed of paired single stones, one external and one internal. The front elevation has a central door flanked by ground and first floor windows in each of the three bays, though the upper window of one bay has been blocked with rubble stone. Evidence of a previous shallow projecting dressed stone porch encasement remains visible as ragged backing stones where it has been removed. The upper gable contains a door at first floor level, possibly once approached by an earthen ramp, most of which has been lost. The rear elevation contains two ground floor doors—one to the main room and one to the upper room—and a window to the central room. The lower gable has a first floor window only. Corner stones and stepped gable skew stones are of regular size and roughly dressed.

The roof was originally thatched, reportedly until around 1950, though a single early half-dressed timber truss survives on the lower room floor as evidence of this. The roof is now covered in tin over modern timber framing. No original joinery survives. The garden enclosure may once have been circular, though this cannot now be confirmed with certainty.

The house appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map and the first Valuation. It has been occupied by families including Burnside, Corrigan, Murphy, Montgomery and Warnock, and was subsequently purchased by the Department of Agriculture. The building may date to the eighteenth century, representing a blend between a standard single storey vernacular house and a larger, more formal two storey dwelling of a wealthier farmer. Local legend recounts a poltergeist that appeared to female members of the Warnock family between 1900 and 1930, when the family emigrated to America; according to tradition, the ghost emigrated with them.

Due to the loss of the original roof construction, windows, doors, staircase and other details, the building has insufficient architectural and historic interest to warrant listing.