- Address
- Kells
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 12315004
Mill Cottage
Kells
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Mill Cottage
Mill Cottage is one of 9 buildings in Kells the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Mill Cottage to 1765–1785. 11 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A pleasant modest-scale cottage forming an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the presence of attributes including the long, low massing, the thatched roof, and so on.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 12315004 · 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 · 12315004↗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 5 minutes
Kells · about 300 m on foot, as the crow flies















- 1Mill CottageStart here
- 2
Kells BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on - 3
Kells CastleArchaeological monument (SMR) · 100 m on
4 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Kells
Closest of all: Keogh's Model Bakery, Callan, 8.1 km away. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. At the edge of the list, 9.1 km away: Thomastown Courthouse, Thomastown.








Questions about Mill Cottage
Is Mill Cottage on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 12315004).
Can you visit Mill Cottage?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Mill Cottage built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1765–1785.
Is Mill Cottage 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).

