- Address
- Kilkenny Street, Castlecomer
- Type
- Convent / nunnery
- NIAH reg. no.
- 12301038
Presentation Convent
Kilkenny Street, Castlecomer
About Presentation Convent
The National Inventory rates Presentation Convent Regional, one of 63 in Castlecomer. Its record dates Presentation Convent to 1880–1890. 59 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A well-composed convent probably incorporating the fabric of an earlier nunnery to the lateral wing, thereby continuing a long-standing presence on site. The distinctive massing including a raised section to the main block to accommodate a chapel ensures the status of the site as a landmark in Kilkenny Street.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 12301038 · 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 · 12301038↗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
Castlecomer · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
10 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded churches around Castlecomer
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Start with The Colliery Church (Castlecomer) in Moneenroe, 5.1 km away. At the edge of the list, 13 km away: Saint Fintan's Church, Durrow.
Questions about Presentation Convent
Is Presentation Convent on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 12301038).
Can you visit Presentation Convent?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Presentation Convent built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1880–1890.
Is Presentation Convent 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).