Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Unionhall: 25% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: Unionhall has 7 times the share. Unionhall has 13 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The oldest record dates from 1780.
Landmarks of Unionhall
Christ Church is the one recorded place in Unionhall with a photo so far.
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.
Where Unionhall’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
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).
13 historic places in Unionhall
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 6, A to Z
7 recorded by their type and address
7 are recorded only by their type and address: 7 homes; most date from the 18th century.
Unionhall’s record leans to homes: 85%
The record in Unionhall comes up to 1880 at its newest. Second on the record: churches and chapels, 2 of them. Among the highest-rated: Listarkin House and Nolan.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Unionhall’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1 of the 13 dated ones were built before 1800.
Just outside Unionhall
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Unionhall: 25
| Drombeg HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.8 km outside the town |
| BawnlahanRegional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Myross CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Stone HallRegional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
| The RectoryRegional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Listarkin House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Seaview HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.6 km outside the town |
| Shorecliff HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.3 km outside the town |
| Glandore HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.2 km outside the town |
| Kilfinnan CastleRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.2 km outside the town |
| SeamarkRegional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
| Glandore PierRegional rating (NIAH) · 1 km outside the town |
| Glandore CastleRegional rating (NIAH) · 1 km outside the town |
| Park CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 500 m outside the town |
| Christ ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 900 m outside the town |
| Poulgorm BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Church of St. FachtnaRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.8 km outside the town |
| The Old SchoolhouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 400 m outside the town |
| Ardagh CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
| House, CooldurraghaRegional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
Since 2011, Unionhall has added 7.4% of its homes, against a usual 5.8%
Take 2001 as the dividing line: more of Unionhall’s homes stand on the older side. Against a typical 24%, only 14% of Unionhall’s homes went up from 1946 to 1980. Unionhall added a lot between the wars: 6.1% of its homes, the typical town 3.9%.
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.
Unionhall and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionhall | 359 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Skibbereen | 2,903 | 119 | 0 | 5 |
| Dunmanway | 1,964 | 45 | 0 | 14 |
| Clonakilty | 5,112 | 174 | 1 | 16 |
Unionhall in brief
More of Unionhall’s homes are old than in most places: 25% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 13 places on the record. Of the whole list, 85% are homes. Of the 13 with a date, 12 come from the 19th century. The oldest is Listarkin House, from 1800.
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 Unionhall’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Unionhall?
13 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Unionhall?
House, Unionhall: the first date on its record is 1780.
How old are the homes in Unionhall?
25% 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.
History is described here, not graded.
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).