- Address
- O'Connell Avenue, Limerick
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 21521069
Ardcaoin
O'Connell Avenue, Limerick, Dock
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Ardcaoin
Ardcaoin is one of 298 buildings in Dock the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Ardcaoin to 1900–1910. 86 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A fine detached house, of quite distinct and unique composition on O'Connell Avenue, while repeating the distinct local palette of materials. The house forms a compositional cross-over between symmetrical classical architecture and a more eclectic exuberant Edwardian architecture.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21521069 · 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 · 21521069↗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
Dock · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
34 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Show the other 16
Houses on the record near Dock
Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Just 4.9 km away stands Plassey House, in Castletroy. At the edge of the list, 24 km away: Teach de Valera, Bruree.
Questions about Ardcaoin
Is Ardcaoin on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21521069).
Can you visit Ardcaoin?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Ardcaoin built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1900–1910.
Is Ardcaoin 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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