Innovative features add to appeal of unusual thatched home

Tipperary home has toupee-like top, and furrowed dormer brows, writes Tommy Barker

It’s 10 years since Banti, an unusual Tipperary thatched home with complete mop-top reed toupee and furrowed eyebrow windows, had a major renovation — but that’s only a drop in the ocean of its long and colourful life.

Selling agent for the large stone and thatched country home, with around 1,200 sq ft, is John DeCourcy in Limerick, and he reckons it’s as much as 300 years old. It has had its ridge thatch re-done recently, had a comb-over, and there’s reassurance knowing it has a steel fire barrier in the roof.