- Address
- Trinity College, Dublin 2
- Type
- Library / archive
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50020389
Old Library
Trinity College, Dublin 2, St Stephen's Green
About Old Library
The National Inventory rates Old Library National, one of 40 in St Stephen's Green. Its record dates Old Library to 1710–1740. 261 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The library was designed by Thomas Burgh, architect and military engineer. In plan a very simple design, a single galleried room over an open arcaded ground floor accessed by a stairs at one end, but resulting in one of the most impressive spaces in the city.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50020389 · 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 · 50020389↗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
St Stephen's Green · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
20 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 2
Nationally rated public buildings around St Stephen's Green
Just 100 m away stands Berkley Library, in St Stephen's Green. There are 5 with photos within 40 km. In St Stephen's Green itself there are 2 of the 5.
Questions about Old Library
Is Old Library on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated National (record 50020389).
Can you visit Old Library?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Old Library built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1710–1740.
Is Old Library 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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