- Address
- Main Street, Clane
- Type
- RIC barracks
- NIAH reg. no.
- 11808003
The Old Barracks
Main Street, Clane
About The Old Barracks
The National Inventory rates The Old Barracks Regional, one of 9 in Clane. Its record dates The Old Barracks to 1850–1870. 7 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Clane Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks (former) is a fine and imposing mid nineteenth-century building that, although now serving an alternative use, retains some of its original appearance and character.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 11808003 · 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 · 11808003↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 3 historic places in about 10 minutes
Clane · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies















7 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded public buildings around Clane
Geraldine Hall in Maynooth is the nearest, at 12 km. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. At the edge of the list, 27 km away: “School, Main Street”, Rathfarnham.








Questions about The Old Barracks
Is The Old Barracks on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11808003).
Can you visit The Old Barracks?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was The Old Barracks built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1850–1870.
Is The Old 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).

