Levitstown Lock
Also known as Levitstown Lock No. 2
About Levitstown Lock
Levitstown Lock is one of 3 buildings in Ballyroe the National Inventory rates Regional. Levitstown Lock dates from 1795–1805. 2 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A lock representing an important component of the civil engineering heritage of County Kildare: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 11903712 · 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 · 11903712↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Levitstown Lock
Ballyroe
1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near Ballyroe: more walls, gates and bridges on the record
Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Just 6.1 km away stands Bridge, in Athy. Farthest out is Doyle's Bridge, Castledermot, 8.2 km away.
Questions about Levitstown Lock
Is Levitstown Lock on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11903712).
Can you visit Levitstown Lock?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Levitstown Lock built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1795–1805.
Is Levitstown Lock 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).
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