- Address
- Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11
- Type
- Building misc
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50130071
O'Connell Circle
Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11
About O'Connell Circle
O'Connell Circle is one of 7 buildings in Glasnevin the National Inventory rates National. Its record dates O'Connell Circle to 1835–1845. 32 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The O'Connell Circle is an original vault and landscape feature laid out to designs by Glasnevin Cemetery architect Patrick Byrne (1782-1864) about 1840.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50130071 · 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 · 50130071↗National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Glasnevin · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
3 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Nationally rated buildings around Glasnevin
Just 2.2 km away stands King's Inns, in Phibsborough. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. The farthest is Saint Doolagh's Well in Kinsaley, 8.1 km away.
Questions about O'Connell Circle
Is O'Connell Circle on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated National (record 50130071).
Can you visit O'Connell Circle?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was O'Connell Circle built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1835–1845.
Is O'Connell Circle 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) · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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