Strand Barracks
Clancy's Strand, Limerick, Farranshone
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Strand Barracks
Strand Barracks is one of 85 buildings in Farranshone the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Strand Barracks to 1770–1790. 11 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Built in reaction to legislation introduced to establish houses of industry (poorhouses and work houses) in all counties in 1772. Designed by Rev.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21512018 · 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 · 21512018↗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
Farranshone · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
5 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
More houses on the record near Farranshone
The nearest is “House, 2 Pery Square, Limerick” in Dock, 1 km away. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. At the edge of the list, 23 km away: Dromoland Castle, Newmarket-On-Fergus.
Questions about Strand Barracks
Is Strand Barracks on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21512018).
Can you visit Strand Barracks?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Strand Barracks built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1770–1790.
Is Strand Barracks 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) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · 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).