- Address
- Castle Road, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20868100
Riverside
Castle Road, Blackrock, Mahon
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Riverside
The National Inventory rates Riverside Regional, one of 105 in Mahon. Riverside dates from 1770–1810. 28 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The two-storey bow, a popular feature in the Blackrock area in the late eighteenth-century, dominates the design of this house. The Doric portico is perfectly proportioned and the boundary wall is also very fine.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20868100 · 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 · 20868100↗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
Mahon · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1RiversideStart here
- 2CoolimRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 3RannochRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 4Briardene and HazeldeneRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 5Home VilleRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Blackrock Castle (fortification)National rating (NIAH)300 mEudionRegional rating (NIAH)300 mRingmahon HouseRegional rating (NIAH)500 mRingmahon House (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH)500 m11 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near Mahon: more houses on the record
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Just 4.2 km away stands The Everyman Palace Theatre, in St Luke's.
Questions about Riverside
Is Riverside on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20868100).
Can you visit Riverside?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Riverside built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1770–1810.
Is Riverside 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).