- Address
- 15 Grattan Street, Portlaoise
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 12506062
Greygates
15 Grattan Street, Portlaoise
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Greygates
Greygates is one of 179 buildings in Portlaoise the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Greygates to 1880–1900. 57 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Despite the loss of its original rendered façade, the overall composition of this late nineteenth-century building remains intact and with its fine railings and gateway it forms part of a group of three impressive houses on the western approach road to Market Square.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 12506062 · 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 · 12506062↗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 15 minutes
Portlaoise · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1GreygatesStart here
- 2The Old MaltingsRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 3
Saint Peter's ChurchNational rating (NIAH) · 200 m on - 4Dunamaise Arts CentreRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 5Bank of IrelandRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
7 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Portlaoise
The nearest is Abbeyleix Courthouse in Abbeyleix, 13 km away. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. At the edge of the list, 26 km away: “Worker's house, 4 Florence Terrace, Kilkenny Street”, Castlecomer.
Questions about Greygates
Is Greygates on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 12506062).
Can you visit Greygates?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Greygates built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1880–1900.
Is Greygates 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).