- Address
- Main Street, Foynes
- Type
- Post office
- NIAH reg. no.
- 21829010
Foynes Post Office
Main Street, Foynes
About Foynes Post Office
Foynes Post Office is one of 29 buildings in Foynes the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Foynes Post Office to 1900–1920. 18 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Designed by William Clifford Smith, this building is a particularly attractive example of early twentieth-century Arts and Crafts style architecture, of which the projecting bays and overhanging eaves are characteristic features. Its form as well as its size and scale, mark it out in the streetscape.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21829010 · 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 · 21829010↗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
Foynes · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Foynes Post OfficeStart here
- 2J. JoyceRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Áras ÍdeRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 4The Mill HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 5Spring Rice MonumentRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
10 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
More public buildings on the record near Foynes
The list holds 3, all within 40 km and photographed. Start with “Town, O'Connell Street” in Ennis, 27 km away. At the edge of the list, 33 km away: The Milk Market, Limerick City Centre.
Questions about Foynes Post Office
Is Foynes Post Office on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21829010).
Can you visit Foynes Post Office?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Foynes Post Office built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1900–1920.
Is Foynes Post Office 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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