- Type
- Demesne walls / gates / railings
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20900707
Milltown Castle
About Milltown Castle
Milltown Castle is one of 64 buildings in Charleville the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Milltown Castle to 1760–1800.
This is a distinctive and richly ornamented eighteenth-century group of gates and gate lodge are well executed in limestone and survive largely in their original form. The busts to the front façade of the gate lodge are a remarkable and rare example of secular façade statuary in this country.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20900707 · 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 · 20900707↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Milltown Castle
Charleville
Recorded walls, gates and bridges around Charleville
There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Closest of all: “Gates, Mallow Castle”, Mallow, 22 km away. Farthest out is Ball's Bridge, Limerick City Centre, 38 km away.
Questions about Milltown Castle
Is Milltown Castle on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20900707).
Can you visit Milltown Castle?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Milltown Castle built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1760–1800.
Is Milltown 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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