- Address
- Blackrock Road, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20868064
Riverview House
Blackrock Road, Blackrock, Mahon
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Riverview House
Riverview House is one of 105 buildings in Mahon the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Riverview House to 1800–1840. 40 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This modest house displays an unusual fenestration, which together with its fine doorcase, heightens the impact of the building's simple design. The retention of much early fabric, together with fine limestone dressings, is also of significance.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20868064 · 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 · 20868064↗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
Mahon · 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.
Recorded houses around Mahon
Start with The Everyman Palace Theatre in St Luke's, 3.6 km away. There are 8 with photos within 40 km.
Questions about Riverview House
Is Riverview House on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20868064).
Can you visit Riverview House?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Riverview House built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1840.
Is Riverview House 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).