Sallins Bridge · Photo: Royalcanalrunner · CC BY-SA 4.0Sallins has 23 buildings on the National Inventory
History in Sallins goes back at least to 1760, the date of its oldest recorded building. Inside the town, the Sites and Monuments Record lists 2 archaeological sites. Of its homes, 1.3% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. For every 10,000 residents, Sallins has 37 buildings on the record; the typical town has 48.
typical town: 48
Look around Sallins: 4 photos
The oldest building in Sallins’s set dates from 1845: Sallins and Naas Railway Station. 3 of Sallins’s recorded places are photographed. First come Sallins Bridge and Catholic Church of Our Lady and the Guardian Angels.
Catholic Church of Our Lady and the Guardian AngelsRegional rating (NIAH)
Sallins and Naas Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH)
Digby Bridge and 16th LockRegional rating (NIAH)+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Where Sallins’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
23 historic places in Sallins
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 12, A to Z
11 recorded by their type and address
11 are recorded only by their type and address: 8 homes, 2 street furniture and 1 farm and estate buildings; most date from the 19th century.
57% of Sallins’s recorded buildings are homes
Among the highest-rated: Sallins National School and Sallins and Naas Railway Station. The second-largest group on the record is public buildings, with 2. All of Sallins’s recorded buildings carry a regional rating.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Sallins’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
1 of the 23 dated ones were built before 1800.
Archaeology in Sallins
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
2 archaeological sites inside the town
Sites on the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory list drawn from this record, are protected by law: anyone planning work at or near one must give the National Monuments Service two months’ notice.
| Enclosure1 record |
| Castle - tower house1 record |
Just outside Sallins: 5
| Mill CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.6 km outside the town |
| Digby Bridge and 16th LockRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.1 km outside the town |
| Bridge, SallinsRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Bridge, SallinsRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Bridge, SallinsRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
Sallins is still building: 16% of its homes are from 2011 or later, against 5.8%
The busiest building years in Sallins were in the 2000s, which account for 40% of today’s homes. Against a typical 3.9%, only 0.7% of Sallins’s homes went up between the wars. Sallins added comparatively little from 1946 to 1980: 5.9% of its homes, the typical town 24%.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Sallins and its neighbours
Sallins in brief
Sallins has 23 places on the record. Of the whole list, 57% are homes. Of the 23 with a date, 21 come from the 19th century. The oldest is Sallins National School, from 1838.
Its homes are mostly newer: 1.3% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: it has 23 recorded buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 35); per resident it sits near the middle of Irish towns of 2,500 or more; and John Cliffe Watts (1786) was born here before 1900.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Sallins’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Sallins?
23 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Sallins?
House, Sallins: the first date on its record is 1760.
Are there archaeological sites in Sallins?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 2 archaeological sites inside Sallins.
How old are the homes in Sallins?
1.3% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page 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.
History is described here, not graded.
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) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata and English Wikipedia for people born here · 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).