- Address
- Rathkeale
- Type
- Country house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 21902908
Beechmount House
Rathkeale
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Beechmount House
The National Inventory rates Beechmount House Regional, one of 33 in Rathkeale. Its record dates Beechmount House to 1790–1810.
This impressive country house, possibly originally H-plan, has many interesting eighteenth-century and later nineteenth-century features. Of particular interest are the projecting end bays, a common feature of high status buildings of this period.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21902908 · 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 · 21902908↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Beechmount House
Rathkeale
Like it: recorded houses near Rathkeale
Fanningstown Castle in Croom is the nearest, at 12 km. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Farthest out is “House, Sarsfield Street”, Kilmallock, 27 km away.
Questions about Beechmount House
Is Beechmount House on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21902908).
Can you visit Beechmount House?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Beechmount House built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1790–1810.
Is Beechmount House 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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