Photo: Brian Herrity · CC BY-SA 3.0Mountcharles: 15 buildings on the National Inventory
Mountcharles has kept more old homes than most towns: 8.8% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. Its oldest building dates from 1760.
2 pictures of historic Mountcharles
Look out for Inver Methodist Church and St. Mary's Catholic Church.
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 Mountcharles’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).
15 historic places in Mountcharles
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 7, A to Z
8 recorded by their type and address
8 are recorded only by their type and address: 6 homes, 1 other buildings and 1 street furniture; most date from the 19th century.
Mountcharles’s record leans to homes: 73%
Mountcharles’s record covers 4 kinds of building in all. In second place come street furniture, with 2. Among the highest-rated: Kozy Kip Bar and Paddy Kelly's Cottage.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Mountcharles’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
4 of the 15 dated ones were built before 1800.
Just outside Mountcharles
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Mountcharles: 23
| The Hall (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 400 m outside the town |
| Salthill House (country house, steward's house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| The Hall (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
| The Hall (farmyard complex, worker's house, coach house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 400 m outside the town |
| The Hall (walled garden)Regional rating (NIAH) · 400 m outside the town |
| The Hall (demesne walls / gates / railings)Regional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Salthill House (walled garden)Regional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
| Salthill House (folly, summerhouse, gazebo)Regional rating (NIAH) · 700 m outside the town |
| Killymard HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.5 km outside the town |
| The Hall (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
| St. Mary's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.5 km outside the town |
| Salthill House (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH) · 800 m outside the town |
| Salthill PierRegional rating (NIAH) · 900 m outside the town |
| Mountcharles Church of Ireland ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Inver Methodist ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.5 km outside the town |
| Eddrim BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.3 km outside the town |
| Inver CreameryRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.8 km outside the town |
| The Creamery HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.8 km outside the town |
| House, Dromore (Mountcharles)Regional rating (NIAH) · 400 m outside the town |
| House, Salthill DemesneRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
12% of Mountcharles’s homes are newer than 2011 (5.8% is typical)
More of the homes standing in Mountcharles today were built from 1946 to 1980 than in any other period: 27%. Mountcharles added a lot between the wars: 5.8% of its homes, the typical town 3.9%. Take 2001 as the dividing line: more of Mountcharles’s homes stand on the older side.
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.
3 notable people born in Mountcharles before 1900
From Stephen Joseph McGroarty (1830) to Cahir Healy (1877): their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Mountcharles → Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Mountcharles and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountcharles | 652 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Donegal | 2,749 | 35 | 1 | 10 |
| Killybegs | 1,258 | 18 | 0 | 7 |
| Ballyshannon | 2,246 | 76 | 1 | 30 |
Mountcharles in brief
More of Mountcharles’s homes are old than in most places: 8.8% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 15 places on the record. Of the whole list, 73% are homes.
Of the 15 with a date, 10 come from the 19th century. The oldest is Kozy Kip Bar, from 1770. Seumas MacManus (1868), Stephen Joseph McGroarty (1830) and Cahir Healy (1877) were all born here before 1900.
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 Mountcharles’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Mountcharles?
15 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Mountcharles?
House, Main Street, Mountcharles: the first date on its record is 1760.
How old are the homes in Mountcharles?
8.8% 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 and English Wikipedia for people born here · 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).