- Address
- Blackrock Road, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20867038
Iona
Blackrock Road, Blackrock, Knockrea
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Iona
Iona is one of 232 buildings in Knockrea the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Iona to 1800–1840. 27 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
One of four houses previously known as Goulden's Place, Iona retains its original front facade proportions although the doors and windows have been replaced. The house has a large, centrally placed front entrance which retains its original cut limestone steps.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20867038 · 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 · 20867038↗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 15 minutes
Knockrea · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
13 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Knockrea
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Start with The Everyman Palace Theatre in St Luke's, 2.3 km away.
Questions about Iona
Is Iona on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20867038).
Can you visit Iona?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Iona built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1840.
Is Iona 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).