- Address
- Main Street, Temperance Lane, Macroom
- Type
- Post office
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20852039
Macroom Post Office
Main Street, Temperance Lane, Macroom
About Macroom Post Office
Macroom Post Office is one of 47 buildings in Macroom the National Inventory rates Regional. Macroom Post Office dates from 1950–1955. 35 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This mid twentieth-century post office makes a striking visual statement in the streetscape with its irregular façade, bisected shopfront and catslide roof. Much of its original character survives intact.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20852039 · 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 · 20852039↗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
Macroom · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
18 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded public buildings around Macroom
Bandon Town Hall in Bandon is the nearest, at 23 km. 8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. The list reaches Cork and Ross Family Centre in Cork City Centre, 33 km away.
Questions about Macroom Post Office
Is Macroom Post Office on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20852039).
Can you visit Macroom Post Office?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Macroom Post Office built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1950–1955.
Is Macroom Post Office 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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