- Address
- 25 Coote Street, Portlaoise
- Type
- Rectory / glebe / vicarage / curate's house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 12504225
The Old Rectory
25 Coote Street, Portlaoise
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About The Old Rectory
The National Inventory rates The Old Rectory Regional, one of 179 in Portlaoise. Its record dates The Old Rectory to 1835–1850. 85 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This tall end-of-terrace former rectory on Coote Street, set back further than its neighbours,and on a high basement is a significant architectural landmark on this major approach road into Portlaoise.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 12504225 · 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 · 12504225↗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
Portlaoise · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
17 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Houses on the record near Portlaoise
There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Just 14 km away stands Abbeyleix Courthouse, in Abbeyleix. “Worker's house, 4 Florence Terrace, Kilkenny Street” in Castlecomer is the farthest, at 26 km.
Questions about The Old Rectory
Is The Old Rectory on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 12504225).
Can you visit The Old Rectory?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was The Old Rectory built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1835–1850.
Is The Old Rectory 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).
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