Church / chapel · 1845–1850St Augustine's Church of Ireland ChurchChurch Road, Swanlinbar
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.010buildings on the National Inventory
History of Swanlinbar · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Swanlinbar: 17% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: Swanlinbar has 5 times the share. Swanlinbar has 10 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Its oldest building dates from 1780.
On the National Inventory
10
Of national importance
0
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1780
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
17%
typical town: 3.4%
The map
Where Swanlinbar’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 10, by rating
10 Regional and other sites
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
Regional and other sites
10 historic places in Swanlinbar
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
House · 1860–1880The First and LastMain Street, Swanlinbar
Manse · 1880–1900Old Manse HouseSwanlinbar
Church / chapel · 1975–1980St Mary's Roman Catholic ChurchChapel Square, Swanlinbar
Church / chapel · 1780–1820Church, Swanlinbar
House · 1800–1840House, Main Street, Swanlinbar
House · 1830–1850House, Mill Street, Swanlinbar
House · 1850–1890House, Chapel Square, Main Street, Swanlinbar
Water pump · 1870–1890Water pump, Mill Street, Swanlinbar
Water pump · 1870–1890Water pump, Mill Street, Swanlinbar
What’s recorded
More homes than anything else in Swanlinbar: 50%
At the top of the record: St Augustine's Church of Ireland Church and The First and Last. Second on the record: churches and chapels, 3 of them. Rated by importance, Swanlinbar’s buildings are all regional.
Homes5
Churches and chapels3
Street furniture2
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
How old
Most of Swanlinbar’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1500–1799 three centuries1
19th century 1800–18998
1900 and later to today1
1 of the 10 dated ones were built before 1800.
Archaeology and around
Just outside Swanlinbar
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Swanlinbar: 4
| Long BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Tircahan LodgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.2 km outside the town |
| Swanlinbar PresbyteryRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Water pump, BorimRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.1 km outside the town |
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Swanlinbar: 3.3% since 2011, against a usual 5.8%
Homes built in the 2000s make up just 13% of Swanlinbar’s, against 25% in the typical town. 7.6% of Swanlinbar’s homes were built between the wars, more than the typical town’s 3.9%. Swanlinbar’s largest group of homes, 33%, went up from 1981 to 2000.
17%
Before 1919
7.6%
1919–45
26%
1946–80
33%
1981–2000
13%
2001–10
3.3%
Since 2011
SwanlinbarTypical town
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Swanlinbar and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swanlinbar | 222 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Ballyconnell | 1,422 | 17 | 0 | 5 |
| Ballinamore | 1,112 | 29 | 0 | 4 |
In brief
Swanlinbar in brief
Old houses are part of Swanlinbar’s character: 17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 10 places on the record. Of the whole list, 50% are homes.
Of the 10 with a date, 8 come from the 19th century. The oldest is St Augustine's Church of Ireland Church, from 1845. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Thomas McGovern (1832) was born here before 1900.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Swanlinbar’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Swanlinbar?
10 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Swanlinbar?
Church, Swanlinbar: the first date on its record is 1780.
How old are the homes in Swanlinbar?
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
History is described here, not graded.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Wikidata and English Wikipedia for people born here · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).