- Address
- Main Street, Killavullen
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20812006
Roches
Main Street, Killavullen
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Roches
Roches is one of 6 buildings in Killavullen the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Roches to 1840–1860. 6 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The highly decorative façade of this building makes it an important element of the main street of Killavullen. Unusual attention to detail is evident in the fine shopfront and ground floor window and the use of a continuous label-moulding to the first floor is also noteworthy.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20812006 · 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 · 20812006↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 4 historic places in about 10 minutes
Killavullen · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1RochesStart here
- 2Ballymacmoy House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Saint Nicholas’ ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
- 4Ballymacmoy House (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
4 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Killavullen
Closest of all: “House, 2 Spa Square”, Mallow, 8.7 km away. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Farthest out is “House, 134 Bank Place”, Mallow, 8.9 km away.
Questions about Roches
Is Roches on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20812006).
Can you visit Roches?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Roches built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1840–1860.
Is Roches 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).
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).