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Athy Library
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National rating (NIAH)

Athy Library

Also known as St Dominic's Church

Convent Lane, Athy

Rated National on the National InventoryOne of 5 rated National in Athy
CChurch / chapelBBuilt 1960–1970
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About Athy Library

The National Inventory rates Athy Library National, one of 5 in Athy. Its record dates Athy Library to 1960–1970. 105 other places on the record stand within 400 m.

NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 11505094↗

National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.

Visit

Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes

Athy · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies

Around it

2 within 150 m

Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.

More like it

Near Athy: more churches of national importance

The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Oughaval Church in Stradbally is the nearest, at 10 km. Farthest out is Saint Conleth's Catholic Church, Newbridge, 25 km away.

Questions about Athy Library

Is Athy Library on the National Inventory?

Yes: rated National (record 11505094).

Can you visit Athy Library?

It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.

When was Athy Library built?

Its National Inventory record dates it to 1960–1970.

Is Athy 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) · 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).