- Address
- Ballisk, Donabate
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 11329015
The Thatch Cottage
Ballisk, Donabate
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About The Thatch Cottage
The Thatch Cottage is one of 18 buildings in Donabate the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates The Thatch Cottage to 1750–1850. 10 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 11329015↗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
Donabate · about 800 m on foot, as the crow flies















- 1The Thatch CottageStart here
- 2An DúnRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 3
Donabate Railway Station (signal box)Regional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on - 4SmythRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5The CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
Saint Patrick's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH)300 mDonabate Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH)300 mDonabate Railway Station (station master's house)Regional rating (NIAH)400 m
Saint Patrick's Church (Donabate)Regional rating (NIAH)500 mSaint Jude's or The Old VicarageRegional rating (NIAH)500 mPortrane National SchoolsRegional rating (NIAH)600 mMore houses on the record near Donabate
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Just 5.6 km away stands Swords Courthouse, in Swords. Howth Castle in Howth is the farthest, at 12 km.
Questions about The Thatch Cottage
Is The Thatch Cottage on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11329015).
Can you visit The Thatch Cottage?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was The Thatch Cottage built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1750–1850.
Is The Thatch Cottage 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).







