Farmyard complex · 1780–1820Farmyard complex, Brittas
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History of Brittas · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Brittas has 1 building on the National Inventory
Brittas has kept more old homes than most towns: 10% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1780.
On the National Inventory
1
Of national importance
0
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
10%
typical town: 3.4%
The map
Where Brittas’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 1, by rating
1 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
One historic place in Brittas
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
What’s recorded
50% of the records in and around Brittas are homes
The second-largest group on the record is farm and estate buildings, with 3. Leading the record by rating: Talbotstown House and Glenaraneen Mill Ponds. Just outside Brittas, the oldest record dates from 1740.
Homes4
Farm and estate buildings3
Other buildings1
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped, for the records inside the town and those just outside it that belong to it; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Archaeology and around
Just outside Brittas
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Brittas: 7
| Talbotstown House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 2 km outside the town |
| Glenaraneen Mill PondsRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Talbotstown House (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 2.2 km outside the town |
| House, GlenaraneenRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Farmyard complex, Raheen (Ne. By.)Regional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
| Farmyard complex, AghfarrellRegional rating (NIAH) · 2 km outside the town |
| Farm house, Raheen (Ne. By.)Regional rating (NIAH) · 500 m outside the town |
Homes by age
Since 2011, Brittas has built no homes, against a usual 5.8%
Homes dated between the wars are commoner in Brittas than in most towns: 17%, against 3.9%. Few of Brittas’s homes date in the 2000s: 8.3%, the norm 25%. 33% of Brittas’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000, more than in any other period.
10%
Before 1919
17%
1919–45
31%
1946–80
33%
1981–2000
8.3%
2001–10
0%
Since 2011
BrittasTypical 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.
Neighbours
Brittas and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brittas | 166 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rathcoole | 5,792 | 22 | 0 | 9 |
| Saggart | 4,573 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| Jobstown | 23,437 | 12 | 0 | 9 |
| Newcastle | 4,526 | 24 | 1 | 13 |
| Fettercairn | 12,970 | 12 | 0 | 7 |
| Bohernabreena | 4,613 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
In brief
Brittas in brief
More of Brittas’s homes are old than in most places: 10% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 1 place on the record.
How to read these numbers
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 Brittas’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Brittas?
1 building on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Brittas?
Farmyard complex, Brittas: the first date on its record is 1780.
How old are the homes in Brittas?
10% 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) · 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).