Cork City Gaol (prison / jail) · Photo: Sheila1988 · CC BY-SA 4.0
280buildings on the National Inventory
History of Sunday's Well · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Sunday's Well: 50% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: Sunday's Well has 15 times the share. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records 280 buildings in Sunday's Well, 4 of them of national importance. Few towns its size have as much: 998 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of them. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1730.
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
16
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1730
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
50%
typical town: 3.4%
In pictures
Then and today: Sunday's Well in 12 photos and 1 old views
Sunday's Well as it was in 1910, in old photographs. 12 recorded places in Sunday's Well have a photo. 1 of the highest-rated places in Sunday's Well have a photo.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland’s collections (Lawrence, Poole, Eason and others) with no known copyright restrictions. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Sunday's Well’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
National and InternationalRegional and other sites400 m from Cork City Gaol
4 of 4within 400 m of Cork City Gaol, the heart of the town’s history
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 280, by rating
4 National and International276 Regional and other sites
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
National and International
4 places of national importance in Sunday's Well
Buildings the National Inventory rates National or International: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Each one opens its own page.
Streets with three or more buildings on the record, by the address it gives.
Sunday's Well Road78 on the record
North Mall25 on the record
Dyke Parade21 on the record
Panorama Terrace17 on the record
Mardyke Walk12 on the record
Sunday's Well Avenue12 on the record
Convent Avenue11 on the record · 4 of national importance
Shandon Street9 on the record
North Abbey Square9 on the record
Blarney Street9 on the record
Western Road7 on the record
Landscape Terrace5 on the record
Of the 280 records, 241 give a street address.
What’s recorded
Sunday's Well’s record leans to homes: 81%
The variety is wide in Sunday's Well: 8 kinds of building on the record. That mix has few churches and chapels: 2% in Sunday's Well, against 7% across the National Inventory. Second on the record: walls, gates and bridges, 14 of them.
Homes228
Walls, gates and bridges14
Public buildings8
Churches and chapels6
Memorials and tombs4
Mills, stations and works4
Street furniture3
Other buildings13
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
How old
Most of Sunday's Well’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1500–1799 three centuries36
19th century 1800–1899221
1900 and later to today23
36 of the 280 dated ones were built before 1800.
Archaeology and around
Archaeology in Sunday's Well
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
16 archaeological sites inside the town
Sites on the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory list drawn from this record, are protected by law: anyone planning work at or near one must give the National Monuments Service two months’ notice.
Ogham stone (present location)4 records
Ritual site - holy well2 records
Country house2 records
Cross-slab (present location)2 records
Sheela-na-gig (present location)2 records
Religious house - Franciscan friars1 record
Passage tomb art (present location)1 record
Inscribed stone (present location)1 record
Rock art (present location)1 record
Homes by age
Since 2011, building in Sunday's Well has been slow: 3.2% of its homes, the norm is 5.8%
Fewer of Sunday's Well’s homes than usual date from 1981 to 2000: 11%, against 24%. Homes built between the wars make up 12% of Sunday's Well’s, against 3.9% in the typical town. In most towns 25% of homes were built in the 2000s; in Sunday's Well only 9.9%.
50%
Before 1919
12%
1919–45
14%
1946–80
11%
1981–2000
9.9%
2001–10
3.2%
Since 2011
Sunday's WellTypical town
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Sunday's Well has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,900 residents, by buildings on the record.
Few towns are as rich in recorded buildings as Sunday's Well: per resident it has more than 99% of Irish towns of 2,500 or more. All told, the list holds 280 places on the record, 4 of them in the top tier. No town its size has more recorded buildings: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Its housing is old: 50% of homes date from before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Its places of national importance cluster together: 4 of them stand within 400 m of Cork City Gaol. Sunday's Well Road alone has 78 places on the record. Most entries on the list, 81%, are homes.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
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Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
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Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
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Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
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The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Sunday's Well’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Sunday's Well?
280 buildings on the National Inventory, 4 of them of national importance, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
Which places in Sunday's Well are of national importance?
Cork City Gaol (prison / jail), Cork City Gaol (prison / jail), Cork City Gaol (prison / jail) and Cork City Gaol (prison / jail).
What is the oldest building in Sunday's Well?
House, 148 Sunday's Well Avenue, Cork City: the first date on its record is 1730.
Are there archaeological sites in Sunday's Well?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 16 archaeological sites inside Sunday's Well.
How old are the homes in Sunday's Well?
50% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page 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.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
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) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. 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).
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Cork City Gaol (prison / jail) · Photo: Sheila1988 · CC BY-SA 4.0
University College Cork, The Maltings Complex (mill (water))Regional rating (NIAH)
Alderman Reilly's BridgeRegional rating (NIAH)
President & Lord Mayor's PavillionRegional rating (NIAH)
Father Matthew Memorial FountainRegional rating (NIAH)
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1900–1920