- Address
- Straffan Road, Court House Square, Maynooth
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 11803039
Lyreen
Straffan Road, Court House Square, Maynooth
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Lyreen
Lyreen is one of 92 buildings in Maynooth the National Inventory rates Regional. Lyreen dates from 1780–1785. 71 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Lyreen (House), also known as Larine House, is a fine, substantial late eighteenth-century building that has been well-maintained and which retains most of its original form and character.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 11803039 · 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 · 11803039↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Maynooth · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
36 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 18
Recorded houses around Maynooth
Closest of all: Castletown, Celbridge, 5.6 km away. All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. At the edge of the list, 20 km away: Mary Aikenhead House, Dolphins Barn.
Questions about Lyreen
Is Lyreen on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11803039).
Can you visit Lyreen?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Lyreen built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1780–1785.
Is Lyreen 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).
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