- Address
- Ardfoyle Crescent, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20867053
Cortna
Ardfoyle Crescent, Blackrock, Knockrea
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Cortna
Cortna is one of 232 buildings in Knockrea the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Cortna to 1905–1915. 16 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Although constructed at the same time and on similar plans, Cortna and Cúl Ard are not identical and have many distinguishing architectural elements, resulting in two quite different houses.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20867053 · 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 · 20867053↗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.
Near Knockrea: more houses on the record
Closest of all: The Everyman Palace Theatre, St Luke's, 2.5 km away. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed.








Questions about Cortna
Is Cortna on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20867053).
Can you visit Cortna?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Cortna built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1905–1915.
Is Cortna 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).