- Address
- Buttevant
- Type
- Castle / fortified house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20803015
Buttevant Castle
Buttevant
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Buttevant Castle
Buttevant Castle is one of 33 buildings in Buttevant the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Buttevant Castle to 1200–1820. 13 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Built by the Earls of Barrymore in the thirteenth century, the castle was converted into a mansion in the early nineteenth century by John Anderson, founder of Fermoy town, who also built the adjacent castellated flour mill.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20803015 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 20803015↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
Buttevant · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Houses on the record near Buttevant
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Just 10 km away stands “House, 135 Bank Place”, in Mallow. At the edge of the list, 10 km away: “House, 2 Spa Square”, Mallow.
Questions about Buttevant Castle
Is Buttevant Castle on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20803015).
Can you visit Buttevant Castle?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Buttevant Castle built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1200–1820.
Is Buttevant Castle 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.
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). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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