- Address
- Nicholas Street, Cork City
- Type
- Steps
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20514909
Limestone steps
Nicholas Street, Cork City, South Gate
About Limestone steps
Limestone steps is one of 197 buildings in South Gate the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Limestone steps to 1810–1850. 162 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Early nineteenth-century limestone steps and kerbing having importance as surviving example in reasonable condition, where other similar examples have been lost. These steps form part of an interesting group with similar nineteenth-century paving schemes.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20514909 · 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 · 20514909↗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
South Gate · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
15 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near South Gate: more buildings on the record
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Closest of all: “Vent pipe, Paul Street, Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Place, Cork”, Cork City Centre, 700 m away. At the edge of the list, 9.8 km away: “Bell tower, Waterloo”, Blarney.
Questions about Limestone steps
Is Limestone steps on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20514909).
Can you visit Limestone steps?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Limestone steps built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1810–1850.
Is Limestone steps 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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