- Address
- Barrack Street, Athea
- Type
- Library / archive
- NIAH reg. no.
- 21834008
Athea Carnegie Library
Barrack Street, Athea
About Athea Carnegie Library
The National Inventory rates Athea Carnegie Library Regional, one of 11 in Athea. Athea Carnegie Library dates from 1915–1920. 9 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Located with the modestly sized town of Athea, this attractive building is immediately recognisable as a Carnegie Library with a well executed ashlar limestone porch and attractive glazed timber door.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21834008 · 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 · 21834008↗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 10 minutes
Athea · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Athea Carnegie LibraryStart here
- 2Athea BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Saint Bartholomew's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
6 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Athea Carnegie Library
Is Athea Carnegie Library on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21834008).
Can you visit Athea Carnegie Library?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Athea Carnegie Library built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1915–1920.
Is Athea Carnegie Library 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) · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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