Ticknevin Lock
About Ticknevin Lock
The National Inventory rates Ticknevin Lock Regional, one of 2 in Derrinturn. Ticknevin Lock dates from 1770–1805.
A canal lock representing an important component of the civil engineering heritage of County Kildare: meanwhile, a weathered 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 11900802 · 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 · 11900802↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Ticknevin Lock
Derrinturn
Like it: recorded walls, gates and bridges near Derrinturn
8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. “Harbour, JKL Street” in Edenderry is the nearest, at 6.2 km. Farthest out is Binn's Bridge, Robertstown, 12 km away.
Questions about Ticknevin Lock
Is Ticknevin Lock on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11900802).
Can you visit Ticknevin Lock?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Ticknevin Lock built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1770–1805.
Is Ticknevin 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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