Nothing in Ballybrittas is on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

Ballybrittas has kept more old homes than most towns: 7.9% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. 8.6% of Ballybrittas’s homes were built in 2011 or later; the typical town has 5.8%.

Heritage nearby

Heritage near Ballybrittas

The nearest towns with buildings of national importance, within 25 km.

Town	Distance	National Inventory	National	Archaeological sites
Monasterevin	6.3 km	104	5	6
Portarlington	6.5 km	68	1	14
Portlaoise	13 km	185	6	17
Kildare	16 km	97	2	68
Athy	17 km	178	5	26
Ballyroan	21 km	6	2	6

Homes by age

More of Ballybrittas’s homes date in the 2000s than from any other period: 61%

Building between the wars fell short in Ballybrittas: 2.9%, against 3.9% in most towns. Few of Ballybrittas’s homes date from 1946 to 1980: 8.6%, the norm 24%. Homes dated from 1981 to 2000 are scarcer in Ballybrittas than in most towns: 11%, against 24%.

7.9%

Before 1919

2.9%

1919–45

8.6%

1946–80

11%

1981–2000

61%

2001–10

8.6%

Since 2011

BallybrittasTypical town

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.

In brief

Ballybrittas in brief

Old houses are part of Ballybrittas’s character: 7.9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. Ballybrittas has nothing on the list; Monasterevin, 6.3 km away, is the nearest place with places of national importance.

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) · 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).