Poplar Row Flats · Photo: Smirkybec · CC BY-SA 4.0
134buildings on the National Inventory
History of Ballybough · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Ballybough: 46% of homes built before 1919
Against 3.4% in the typical town, Ballybough has 13 times the share. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records 134 buildings in Ballybough. Per 10,000 residents that makes 164; the typical town has 48. Its oldest building dates from 1780.
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1780
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
46%
typical town: 3.4%
In pictures
1 old views and 7 photos of Ballybough
7 of the places on Ballybough’s record are pictured here; the others show their record card. The camera caught Ballybough in 1890. Among them: Poplar Row Flats and St. Barnabas's Church of Ireland.
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.
From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland’s collections (Lawrence, Poole, Eason and others) with no known copyright restrictions. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Ballybough’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 134, by rating
134 Regional and other sites
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).
Regional and other sites
134 historic places in Ballybough
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
Streets with three or more buildings on the record, by the address it gives.
North Circular Road32 on the record
Summerhill Parade18 on the record
Sherrard Street16 on the record
Richmond Street12 on the record
Drumcondra Road9 on the record
Charleville Mall9 on the record
Bayview Avenue8 on the record
North Strand Road6 on the record
North Richmond Street5 on the record
William Street4 on the record
Of the 134 records, 129 give a street address.
What’s recorded
In Ballybough, homes lead the record (78%)
The latest date on Ballybough’s record is 1940. In Ballybough, churches and chapels weigh less than nationally: 4%, against 7%. Second on the record: public buildings, 8 of them.
Homes104
Public buildings8
Walls, gates and bridges8
Street furniture6
Churches and chapels5
Inns, shops and warehouses1
Other buildings2
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
How old
Most of Ballybough’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1500–1799 three centuries17
19th century 1800–1899108
1900 and later to today9
17 of the 134 dated ones were built before 1800. The oldest is Clarke’s Bridge, from 1780.
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Ballybough: 4.1% since 2011, against a usual 5.8%
More of Ballybough’s homes than usual date between the wars: 14%, against 3.9%. Homes built in the 2000s make up just 10% of Ballybough’s, against 25% in the typical town. Just 9.6% of the homes in Ballybough went up from 1981 to 2000, short of the typical 24%.
46%
Before 1919
14%
1919–45
17%
1946–80
9.6%
1981–2000
10%
2001–10
4.1%
Since 2011
BallyboughTypical town
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.
Old houses are part of Ballybough’s character: 46% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 134 places on the record. Per resident, it has more recorded buildings than 83% of Irish towns of 2,500 or more. On North Circular Road alone there are 32 places on the record.
Of the whole list, 78% are homes. Most of its dated monuments come from the 19th century: 108 of 134. The oldest, Clarke’s Bridge, dates from 1780. Beyond that, it has 134 recorded buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 86).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
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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.
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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.
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The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Ballybough’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Ballybough?
134 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Ballybough?
Clarke’s Bridge: the first date on its record is 1780.
How old are the homes in Ballybough?
46% 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).
Poplar Row Flats · Photo: Smirkybec · CC BY-SA 4.0
St. Barnabas's Church of IrelandRegional rating (NIAH)
Newcomen Bridge and 1st LockRegional rating (NIAH)
Charleville Mall LibraryRegional rating (NIAH)
Post box, North Circular Road, Richmond Street North, DublinRegional rating (NIAH)
Bridge, Ballybough Road, Dublin 3Regional rating (NIAH)+2See all photos
c. 1890