- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20903616
Coole Abbey
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Coole Abbey
Coole Abbey is one of 0 buildings in Castlelyons the National Inventory rates National. Its record dates Coole Abbey to 1760–1770. One other place on the record stands within 400 m.
This substantial house was designed by the renowned architect Davis Duckart. Whilst Coole Abbey is characteristic in form of late eighteenth-century grand houses built in the classical style, it is distinguished by the finely carved limestone dressings, especially those to the shallow breakfront.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20903616 · 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 · 20903616↗National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 5 minutes
Castlelyons · about 100 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Coole AbbeyStart here
- 2
Coole Upper Two ChurchesArchaeological monument (SMR) · 100 m on
1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Nationally rated houses around Castlelyons
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Start with Strancally Castle in Villierstown, 23 km away. Farthest out is “House, The Mercy Hospital”, Cork City Centre, 30 km away.
Questions about Coole Abbey
Is Coole Abbey on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated National (record 20903616).
Can you visit Coole Abbey?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Coole Abbey built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1760–1770.
Is Coole Abbey 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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