Guest house / b&b · 1840–1880Maranatha HouseKilnamucky
Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.01building on the National Inventory
History of Tower · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Tower: 1 building on the National Inventory
History in Tower goes back at least to 1840, the date of its oldest recorded building. Tower has 3 buildings on the record for every 10,000 residents, against 48 in the typical town.
On the National Inventory
1
3 per 10,000 residents
typical town: 48
typical town: 48
Of national importance
0
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1840
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
2.7%
typical town: 3.4%
In pictures
A look at historic Tower
The photo shows Tower Bridge, one of Tower’s recorded places.
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.
The map
Where Tower’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by rating
1 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).
Regional and other sites
One historic place in Tower
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
What’s recorded
Around Tower, the record leans to homes: 56%
Tower has no nationally rated building; its record is regional. The runner-up group is walls, gates and bridges: 3 records. Leading the record by rating: Sheep Bridge and Aghnamuck Bridge.
Homes5
Walls, gates and bridges3
Other buildings1
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped, for the records inside the town and those just outside it that belong to it; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Archaeology and around
Just outside Tower
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Tower: 8
| Sheep BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Aghnamuck BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.6 km outside the town |
| InchbegRegional rating (NIAH) · 800 m outside the town |
| Tower BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Gate lodge, CloghroeRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Farm house, DromasmoleRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
| House, KillowenRegional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Water tower, KillowenRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.1 km outside the town |
Homes by age
Tower’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 59% of its homes
By 2001, Tower had built the greater part of the homes it has now. Tower added comparatively little between the wars: 0.6% of its homes, the typical town 3.9%. Homes dated in the 2000s are scarcer in Tower than in most towns: 12%, against 25%.
2.7%
Before 1919
0.6%
1919–45
20%
1946–80
59%
1981–2000
12%
2001–10
5.8%
Since 2011
TowerTypical 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
How Tower compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,100 to 3,500 residents, by buildings on the record.
Tower1
#16 of 16for buildings on the record per resident (3 per 10,000). Shandon, Limerick City Centre and Crosshaven lead.
15 have more. The typical town its size has 20.
Neighbours
Tower and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower | 3,300 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Blarney | 2,779 | 18 | 0 | 4 |
| Ballincollig | 21,940 | 36 | 0 | 55 |
| Killumney | 1,466 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| Shanakiel | 3,804 | 48 | 0 | 2 |
| Hollyhill and Ballincolly | 8,606 | 30 | 0 | 68 |
| Bishopstown | 14,529 | 27 | 0 | 20 |
In brief
Tower in brief
The official list counts 1 place on the record in Tower. Its homes are mostly newer: 2.7% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The oldest, Maranatha House, dates from 1840. Most towns its size have more recorded buildings: the typical one has 20.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Tower’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Tower?
1 building on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Tower?
Maranatha House: the first date on its record is 1840.
How old are the homes in Tower?
2.7% 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).