- Address
- Blackrock Road, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20867020
Coolbawn
Blackrock Road, Blackrock, Knockrea
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Coolbawn
Coolbawn is one of 232 buildings in Knockrea the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Coolbawn to 1910–1930. 27 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Coolbawn is distinctive along this stretch of houses on the north of Blackrock Road, as a single detached house, among several pairs of semi-detached houses. Its narrow front facade disguises a substantial house stretching back into the narrow plot.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20867020 · 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 · 20867020↗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 10 minutes
Knockrea · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies















6 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Houses on the record near Knockrea
Closest of all: The Everyman Palace Theatre, St Luke's, 2.1 km away. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed.








Questions about Coolbawn
Is Coolbawn on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20867020).
Can you visit Coolbawn?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Coolbawn built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1910–1930.
Is Coolbawn 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).