- Address
- 83-84 Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20506262
Handlebars
83-84 Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City, St Luke's
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Handlebars
Handlebars is one of 381 buildings in St Luke's the National Inventory rates Regional. Handlebars dates from 1870–1890. 182 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A large public house, one of a group associated with the railway station, retaining many decorative features such as moulded window surrounds and string courses. The building has two over two pane timber sash windows to the upper floors and timber windows with unusually shaped smaller panes within the pubfront.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20506262 · 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 · 20506262↗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
St Luke's · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies















- 1HandlebarsStart here
- 2Beechmount (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3MarinaRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Kent Railway Station (locomotive shed)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5Kent Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Holy Family Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH)300 mSt Patrick's Presbytery (presbytery / parochial / curate's house)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mSt Patrick's Presbytery (presbytery / parochial / curate's house)Regional rating (NIAH)300 m35 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 17
Other recorded houses around St Luke's
Closest of all: Cork Opera House, Cork City Centre, 1.1 km away. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed.








Questions about Handlebars
Is Handlebars on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20506262).
Can you visit Handlebars?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Handlebars built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1870–1890.
Is Handlebars 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).