A three-roomed, pre-Congested Districts Board thatched dwelling at Strake, in the south of Clare Island. Thatched dwellings and outhouses on the island are squat and the ridge of the roof is rounded to reduce the impact of westerly gales.

Striped field system, Strake. Large regular fields or stripes were superimposed by the Congested Districts Board on an earlier open-field system of small tillage plots.

Abandoned thatched dwelling house, Strake. Although its roof was rebuilt early in the twentieth century, it contiued to be thatched until abandoned.