- Address
- 137 Richmond Road, Dublin 9
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50120038
Elm Lodge
137 Richmond Road, Dublin 9, Drumcondra
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Elm Lodge
Elm Lodge is one of 87 buildings in Drumcondra the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Elm Lodge to 1815–1835. 28 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The oblique positioning of this house to the road, along with the dense foliage to the front garden, almost conceals it from the street. The house displays a facade of stepped plan, adding incident to the streetscape.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50120038 · 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 · 50120038↗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
Drumcondra · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies















- 1Elm LodgeStart here
- 2Tivoli CentreRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 3Woodbine LodgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4House, St. Vincent's HospitalRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 5Graveyard, St. Vincent's HospitalRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded houses around Drumcondra
There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Start with Poplar Row Flats in Ballybough, 700 m away.








Questions about Elm Lodge
Is Elm Lodge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50120038).
Can you visit Elm Lodge?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Elm Lodge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1815–1835.
Is Elm Lodge 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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