Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Old homes in Ballydehob: 24% built before 1919
Against 3.4% in the typical town, Ballydehob has 7 times the share. Ballydehob has 21 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1820.
Places to see in Ballydehob
Only “Bridge, Main Street, Ballydehob” has a photo so far; more of Ballydehob awaits one.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Where Ballydehob’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
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).
21 historic places in Ballydehob
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 15, A to Z
6 recorded by their type and address
6 are recorded only by their type and address: 5 homes and 1 churches and chapels; most date from the 19th century.
Ballydehob’s record leans to homes: 86%
In second place come churches and chapels, with 2. Leading the record by rating: A Nice Old Bookshop and C. O'Sullivan Victualler. All of Ballydehob’s recorded buildings carry a regional rating.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Ballydehob’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
The oldest is A Nice Old Bookshop, from 1820.
Just outside Ballydehob
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Ballydehob: 8
| Greenmount HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Coolagh BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Rathruane BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 500 m outside the town |
| Coolagh CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Bridge, Main Street, BallydehobRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Bridge, GreenmountRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Bridge, Main Street, BallydehobRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Farm house, GortnagroughRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.7 km outside the town |
Most of Ballydehob’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 25%
Homes built between the wars make up 9.7% of Ballydehob’s, against 3.9% in the typical town. Ballydehob added comparatively little from 1946 to 1980: 13% of its homes, the typical town 24%. The last decade or so added just 4% of Ballydehob’s homes, against 5.8% in most towns.
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.
Ballydehob and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballydehob | 345 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bantry | 2,929 | 79 | 1 | 12 |
| Skibbereen | 2,903 | 119 | 0 | 5 |
Ballydehob in brief
More of Ballydehob’s homes are old than in most places: 24% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 21 places on the record. Most entries on the list, 86%, are homes.
Of the 21 with a date, 20 come from the 19th century. The oldest is A Nice Old Bookshop, from 1820. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Joseph Murphy (1898) was born here before 1900.
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 Ballydehob’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Ballydehob?
21 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Ballydehob?
A Nice Old Bookshop: the first date on its record is 1820.
How old are the homes in Ballydehob?
24% 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.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
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) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · 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).