- Address
- Benburb Street, Dublin 7
- Type
- Barracks
- NIAH reg. no.
- 50070162
Collins Barracks
Benburb Street, Dublin 7, Stoneybatter
Opening times and tickets are on its own website.
About Collins Barracks
The National Inventory rates Collins Barracks Regional, one of 323 in Stoneybatter. Its record dates Collins Barracks to 1780–1800. 77 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The construction of the Royal Barracks was initiated by the 2nd Duke of Ormonde at the close of the seventeenth century, and was funded by a tax on tobacco and beer.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 50070162 · 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 · 50070162↗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 10 minutes
Stoneybatter · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Collins BarracksStart here
- 2National Museum of Ireland Collins BarracksRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Building misc, National Museum of Ireland Collins BarracksRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4
Church of the Sacred HeartRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on - 5Irish United Nations Veterans' Memorial MuseumRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
20 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded public buildings around Stoneybatter
Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Start with Health Service Executive in Dolphins Barn, 400 m away.
Questions about Collins Barracks
Is Collins Barracks on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 50070162).
Can you visit Collins Barracks?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Collins Barracks built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1780–1800.
Is Collins Barracks 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).