Aldborough House · Photo: BishopRick9 · CC BY-SA 3.0
284buildings on the National Inventory
History of Summerhill · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Old homes in Summerhill: 30% built before 1919
For Summerhill, that is 9 times the typical town’s share, 3.4%. Summerhill has 284 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2 of them of national importance. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1720. The Sites and Monuments Record adds 2 archaeological sites inside the town.
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
2
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1720
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
30%
typical town: 3.4%
In pictures
11 photos of Summerhill’s landmarks, and 2 old views
Aldborough House and Molloy’s lead the set. 11 of the places on Summerhill’s record are pictured here; the others show their record card. Summerhill before 1950 appears in old photographs from 1890 to 1921.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Through time
Summerhill from 1890 to 1921
2 old photographs, in date order. All made before 1950.
18801890190019101920193019401950VictorianEdwardianRevolutionFree State
From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland’s collections (Lawrence, Poole, Eason and others) with no known copyright restrictions. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Summerhill’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
National and InternationalRegional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 284, by rating
2 National and International282 Regional and other sites
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
National and International
2 places of national importance in Summerhill
Buildings the National Inventory rates National or International: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Each one opens its own page.
Streets with three or more buildings on the record, by the address it gives.
Gardiner Street48 on the record · 1 of national importance
Mountjoy Square35 on the record
Belvedere Place33 on the record
North Circular Road28 on the record
Amiens Street24 on the record
Buckingham Street18 on the record
Charles Street16 on the record
Sherrard Street14 on the record
Talbot Street12 on the record
Seán MacDermott Street10 on the record
Portland Row9 on the record · 1 of national importance
Fitzgibbon Street6 on the record
Of the 284 records, 277 give a street address.
What’s recorded
The record in Summerhill starts with homes, at 87%
Among the highest-rated: Aldborough House and Catholic Church of Saint Francis Xavier. That mix has few churches and chapels: 4% in Summerhill, against 7% across the National Inventory. 8 different kinds of building make up Summerhill’s record.
Homes246
Churches and chapels10
Inns, shops and warehouses9
Public buildings4
Street furniture4
Walls, gates and bridges2
Mills, stations and works2
Other buildings7
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
How old
Most of Summerhill’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1500–1799 three centuries71
19th century 1800–1899200
1900 and later to today13
71 of the 284 dated ones were built before 1800. The oldest is Isaac's Hostel, from 1720.
Archaeology and around
Archaeology in Summerhill
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
2 archaeological sites inside the town
Sites on the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory list drawn from this record, are protected by law: anyone planning work at or near one must give the National Monuments Service two months’ notice.
Mill - unclassified1 record
Barracks1 record
Homes by age
A growing town: 13% of Summerhill’s homes date from 2011 on, the norm is 5.8%
In most towns 3.9% of homes were built between the wars; in Summerhill, 6.5%. Few of Summerhill’s homes date from 1946 to 1980: 13%, the norm 24%. Building from 1981 to 2000 fell short in Summerhill: 17%, against 24% in most towns.
30%
Before 1919
6.5%
1919–45
13%
1946–80
17%
1981–2000
21%
2001–10
13%
Since 2011
SummerhillTypical town
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Summerhill has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 11,000 to 12,800 residents, by buildings on the record.
More of Summerhill’s homes are old than in most places: 30% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 284 places on the record, 2 of them in the top tier. No town its size has more recorded buildings: it leads the 16 nearest in population. For its size, it has more recorded buildings than 89% of Irish towns of 2,500 or more.
Gardiner Street alone has 48 places on the record. Most entries on the list, 87%, are homes. Of the 284 with a date, 200 come from the 19th century. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 archaeological sites.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
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Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
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Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
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Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
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The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Summerhill’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Summerhill?
284 buildings on the National Inventory, 2 of them of national importance, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
Which places in Summerhill are of national importance?
Aldborough House and Catholic Church of Saint Francis Xavier.
What is the oldest building in Summerhill?
Isaac's Hostel: the first date on its record is 1720.
Are there archaeological sites in Summerhill?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 2 archaeological sites inside Summerhill.
How old are the homes in Summerhill?
30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page 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.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
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) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. 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).
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Aldborough House · Photo: BishopRick9 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Molloy’sRegional rating (NIAH)
Killarney CourtRegional rating (NIAH)
Park, Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1Regional rating (NIAH)
Church, Seán MacDermott Street, DublinRegional rating (NIAH)
Bridge, Store Street, Dublin 1Regional rating (NIAH)+6See all photos
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