Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Old homes in Rathmullan: 23% built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: Rathmullan has 7 times the share. Rathmullan has 26 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1800. Inside the town, the Sites and Monuments Record lists 6 archaeological sites.
Look around Rathmullan: 2 photos
Inch Fort and Macamish Fort lead the set.
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 Rathmullan’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).
26 historic places in Rathmullan
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 13, A to Z
13 recorded by their type and address
13 are recorded only by their type and address: 8 homes, 2 street furniture and 1 mills, stations and works; most date from the 19th century.
Kerrs Bay Road has the most
Streets with three or more buildings on the record, by the address it gives.
Of the 26 records, 26 give a street address.
Rathmullan’s largest group: homes, 50% of the record
The next biggest group is churches and chapels, 4 in all. At the top of the record: Rathmullan Fort and Rathmullan House. Nothing on Rathmullan’s record is rated of national importance.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Rathmullan’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
Archaeology in Rathmullan
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
6 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.
| Cairn - burial cairn1 record |
| Settlement cluster1 record |
| Stone head1 record |
| Religious house - Carmelite friars1 record |
| Cross-inscribed stone1 record |
| Cross-inscribed pillar (present location)1 record |
Just outside Rathmullan: 4
| Saint Catherine's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.3 km outside the town |
| Inch FortRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.6 km outside the town |
| Macamish FortRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.7 km outside the town |
| HolymountRegional rating (NIAH) · 900 m outside the town |
26% of Rathmullan’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000
New building in Rathmullan runs at the usual pace: 6.7% of homes date from 2011 on, the typical town 5.8%. Homes built between the wars make up just 2.9% of Rathmullan’s, against 3.9% in the typical town. The midpoint of Rathmullan’s housing falls before 2001: half the homes are older.
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.
Rathmullan and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rathmullan | 528 | 26 | 0 | 6 |
| Buncrana | 6,971 | 79 | 0 | 19 |
| Milford | 1,076 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramelton | 1,288 | 80 | 1 | 8 |
| Newtowncunningham | 1,192 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Muff | 1,418 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Rathmullan in brief
More of Rathmullan’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 26 places on the record. On Kerrs Bay Road alone there are 9 places on the record. Of the whole list, 50% are homes.
Most of its dated monuments come from the 19th century: 23 of 26. The oldest, Rathmullan Fort, dates from 1810. The archaeological record adds 6 sites. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Mary McAlister (1896) was 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 Rathmullan’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Rathmullan?
26 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Rathmullan?
Graveyard, Kerrs Bay Road, Rathmullan: the first date on its record is 1800.
Are there archaeological sites in Rathmullan?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 6 archaeological sites inside Rathmullan.
How old are the homes in Rathmullan?
23% 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).