- Type
- Rectory / glebe / vicarage / curate's house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 21902909
The Rectory
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About The Rectory
The Rectory is one of 33 buildings in Rathkeale the National Inventory rates Regional. The Rectory dates from 1800–1820.
This house is carefully proportioned with widely spaced diminishing windows and centrally placed chimneystacks. The recessed centre bay and end bay window surrounds provide a sense of grandeur, enhanced by the finely crafted sash windows.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 21902909 · 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 · 21902909↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 10 minutes
Rathkeale · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1The RectoryStart here
- 2BallywilliamRegional rating (NIAH) · 400 m on
Houses on the record near Rathkeale
Just 12 km away stands Fanningstown Castle, in Croom. All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. The list reaches Glin Castle in Glin, 27 km away.
Questions about The Rectory
Is The Rectory on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 21902909).
Can you visit The Rectory?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was The Rectory built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1820.
Is The Rectory 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).
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).