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Regional rating (NIAH)
1905–1915
Address
Convent Lane, Balbriggan
Type
Convent / nunnery
NIAH reg. no.
11305006
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Regional rating (NIAH)

Loreto Convent

Convent Lane, Balbriggan

Rated Regional on the National InventoryOne of 42 rated Regional in Balbriggan
CConvent / nunneryBBuilt 1905–1915
DirectionsIts National Inventory record ↗
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About Loreto Convent

Loreto Convent is one of 42 buildings in Balbriggan the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Loreto Convent to 1905–1915. 20 other places on the record stand within 400 m.

NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 11305006↗

Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.

Visit

Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes

Balbriggan · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies

DirectionsWalk the tour in Google Maps
  1. 1Loreto ConventStart here
  2. 2Balbriggan Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  3. 3The Fashion HallRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
  4. 4Balbriggan CourthouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
  5. 5Foresters' HallRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Farther afield
Balbriggan Harbour (harbour / dock / port)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mBalbriggan Harbour (lighthouse)Regional rating (NIAH)400 mBalbriggan Martello TowerNational rating (NIAH)400 mRectory, Saint George's Church (Balrothery)Regional rating (NIAH)400 mSaint George's Church (Balrothery)Regional rating (NIAH)400 mBalbriggan Carnegie Free LibraryRegional rating (NIAH)500 m
Around it

6 within 150 m

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

RegBalbriggan Railway Station (goods shed)73 mRegFactory, Railway Street, Balbriggan113 mRegChimney, Convent Lane, Balbriggan115 mRegBalbriggan Railway Station122 mRegBalbriggan Railway Station (station master's house)134 mRegFactory, Railway Street, Balbriggan148 m
More like it

Churches on the record near Balbriggan

The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Saint Peter's Church in Balrothery is the nearest, at 2.9 km. Farthest out is Saint Mary's Church, Julianstown, 9.3 km away.

Saint Peter's ChurchBalrothery · 2.9 km away
Skerries Methodist ChurchSkerries · 6.2 km away
Saint Patrick's Church (Holmpatrick)Skerries · 6.7 km away
Church, BaldonganLoughshinny · 7.5 km away
Catholic Church of the Nativity of Our LadyNaul · 7.7 km away
Saint MacCullin's Catholic ChurchLusk · 9.2 km away
Saint Canice's Catholic ChurchNaul · 9.2 km away
Saint Mary's ChurchJulianstown · 9.3 km away

Questions about Loreto Convent

Is Loreto Convent on the National Inventory?

Yes: rated Regional (record 11305006).

Can you visit Loreto Convent?

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

When was Loreto Convent built?

Its National Inventory record dates it to 1905–1915.

Is Loreto Convent 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). 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).