- Address
- Blackrock Road, Blackrock
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20868033
Rockcliffe
Blackrock Road, Blackrock, Mahon
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Rockcliffe
The National Inventory rates Rockcliffe Regional, one of 105 in Mahon. Its record dates Rockcliffe to 1760–1780. 43 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A fine example of a house originally built in a typically late eighteenth century style, just outside the city, and subsequently extended in the early nineteenth century. The pomp of the entrance reflects the aspirations of the person who had the house extended.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20868033 · 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 · 20868033↗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
17 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded houses near Mahon
Closest of all: The Everyman Palace Theatre, St Luke's, 3 km away. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo.
Questions about Rockcliffe
Is Rockcliffe on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20868033).
Can you visit Rockcliffe?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Rockcliffe built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1760–1780.
Is Rockcliffe 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).