- Address
- Martin's Row, Chapelizod, Dublin 20
- Type
- Orphanage / children's home
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50060301
Vale View
Martin's Row, Chapelizod, Dublin 20
About Vale View
The National Inventory rates Vale View Regional, one of 126 in Chapelizod. Its record dates Vale View to 1890–1910. 29 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Built as one of a pair, this building forms part of a terrace of six of varying dates and styles, which together made up the Drummond Institution, a home for the orphan daughters of soldiers. Despite the loss of its original windows most of the façade materials remain intact.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50060301 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 50060301↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
Chapelizod · about 900 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Vale ViewStart here
- 2Chapelizod WeirRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3ShirleyRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 4Saint Laurence's ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 400 m on
- 5Knockmary LodgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
Anna Livia BridgeRegional rating (NIAH)300 mThe Bridge InnRegional rating (NIAH)300 mSaint Mary's Hospital (gates / railings / walls)Regional rating (NIAH)500 mSaint Mary's Hospital (orphanage / children's home)Regional rating (NIAH)500 mPresbyteryRegional rating (NIAH)500 mBoundary VillaRegional rating (NIAH)500 m9 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded buildings around Chapelizod
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Dunsink Observatory in Blanchardstown is the nearest, at 4.1 km. Farthest out is Bewley's Oriental Cafés, Temple Bar, 5.8 km away.
Questions about Vale View
Is Vale View on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50060301).
Can you visit Vale View?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Vale View built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1890–1910.
Is Vale View 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).
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