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Clock Gate
Photo: Will McGoldrick · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file · tap to enlarge
National rating (NIAH)

Clock Gate

Also known as Clock Gate, Youghal

North Main Street, South Main Street, Youghal

Rated National on the National InventoryOne of 8 rated National in Youghal
GGates / railings / wallsBBuilt 1775–1780
DirectionsIts National Inventory record ↗Its website ↗

Opening times and tickets are on its own website.

★ Then & now

Clock Gate, 1900s and today

Drag across to compare. The two views aren’t taken from exactly the same spot.

Clock Gate today
Clock Gate, 1900s
1900sToday

1900s: Photo: National Library of Ireland · No known copyright restrictions; made by 1925. Today: Photo: Will McGoldrick · CC BY-SA 3.0.

About

About Clock Gate

Clock Gate is one of 8 buildings in Youghal the National Inventory rates National. Its record dates Clock Gate to 1775–1780. 110 other places on the record stand within 400 m.

Standing on the site of the medieval Iron or South Gate, this imposing and landmark structure is a notable and unusual feature within the town of Youghal. It was designed by William Meade and served as the town gaol until 1837.

From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20823120 · 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 · 20823120↗

National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.

In old photographs

1 old view of Clock Gate

Made before 1950, from 1900: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland with no known copyright restrictions. Tap one to see it full screen.

South Main Street and Clock Gate from North Youghal, Queenstown, Co. Cork1900s
South Main Street and Clock Gate from North Youghal, Queenstown, Co. …

From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server; each credit is in the viewer.

Visit

Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes

Youghal · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies

DirectionsWalk the tour in Google Maps
  1. 1Clock GateStart here
  2. 2W.J. FieldRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  3. 3Monserrat and Hillside HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  4. 4Grove HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  5. 5Emmet LodgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Farther afield
Bank of IrelandRegional rating (NIAH)300 mW. ClarkeRegional rating (NIAH)300 mYoughal Methodist ChurchRegional rating (NIAH)300 mM. CunninghamRegional rating (NIAH)300 mNelson HouseRegional rating (NIAH)300 mAvondhuRegional rating (NIAH)400 m
Around it

35 within 150 m

Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.

RegHouse, 61 South Main Street, Barry's Lane, Youghal11 mRegThe Clock Stores16 mRegHouse, 90 North Main Street, Youghal23 mRegHouse, 4-5 South Main Street, Youghal26 mRegHouse, 91 North Main Street, Youghal30 mRegHouse, 92 North Main Street, Youghal38 mRegHouse, 7 South Main Street, Youghal41 mRegMuckley45 mRegHouse, 8 South Main Street, Youghal47 mRegHouse, 55 South Main Street, Youghal49 mRegHouse, 94 North Main Street, Youghal51 mRegYoughal Courthouse53 mRegMerrick56 mRegHouse, 11 South Main Street, Youghal66 mRegHouse, 12 South Main Street, Youghal73 mRegHouse, 13 South Main Street, Youghal78 mRegHouse, 47 South Main Street, Youghal78 mRegHouse, 77 North Main Street, Youghal78 m
Show the other 17
RegHouse, 14 South Main Street, Youghal82 mRegHouse, 46 South Main Street, Youghal84 mRegHouse, 76 North Main Street, Youghal86 mRegHouse, 15 South Main Street, Youghal87 mRegYoughal Market House90 mRegHouse, 45 South Main Street, Youghal90 mRegHouse, 44 South Main Street, Youghal96 mRegHouse, 18-19 South Main Street, Youghal108 mRegHouse, Mall Lane, Kent Street, Youghal115 mRegQuay, Youghal120 mRegHouse, 104 North Main Street, Youghal122 mRegHouse, 71 North Main Street, Youghal124 mRegHouse, 105 North Main Street, Youghal129 mRegHouse, 39 South Main Street, Youghal132 mRegW.J. Field135 mRegMonserrat and Hillside House140 mRegHouse, 39 South Main Street, Youghal149 m

Questions about Clock Gate

Is Clock Gate on the National Inventory?

Yes: rated National (record 20823120).

Can you visit Clock Gate?

It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.

When was Clock Gate built?

Its National Inventory record dates it to 1775–1780.

Is Clock Gate 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) · 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).