House · 1760–1800Tuí Naomh ÁineBaltray
Photo: Andrew McMahon · CC BY-SA 2.04buildings on the National Inventory
History of Baltray · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Old homes in Baltray: 21% built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: Baltray has 6 times the share. Baltray has 4 buildings on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The oldest record dates from 1760.
On the National Inventory
4
Of national importance
0
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1760
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
21%
typical town: 3.4%
The map
Where Baltray’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 4, by rating
4 Regional and other sites
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
Regional and other sites
4 historic places in Baltray
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
What’s recorded
The record in and around Baltray: homes first, at 63%
Baltray’s most recent recorded building is from 1850. The highest-rated include Tuí Naomh Áine and Braghan Bridge. Nothing on Baltray’s record is rated of national importance.
Homes5
Farm and estate buildings1
Public buildings1
Walls, gates and bridges1
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped, for the records inside the town and those just outside it that belong to it; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Archaeology and around
Just outside Baltray
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Baltray: 4
| Braghan BridgeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Baldoyle CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| BaldoyleRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| House, BraghanRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
Homes by age
A growing town: 15% of Baltray’s homes date from 2011 on, the norm is 5.8%
The period that gave Baltray the most homes is from 1946 to 1980: 36%. Baltray built little from 1981 to 2000: 4.5% of its homes, where most towns have 24%. Building between the wars went further in Baltray than in most towns: 14%, against 3.9%.
21%
Before 1919
14%
1919–45
36%
1946–80
4.5%
1981–2000
9.1%
2001–10
15%
Since 2011
BaltrayTypical town
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Baltray and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltray | 150 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Termonfeckin | 1,983 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney | 15,642 | 46 | 0 | 21 |
| Drogheda | 44,135 | 324 | 6 | 105 |
| Clogherhead | 2,275 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| Stamullen | 3,720 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
In brief
Baltray in brief
More of Baltray’s homes are old than in most places: 21% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 4 places on the record. The oldest, Tuí Naomh Áine, dates from 1760.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Baltray’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Baltray?
4 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Baltray?
House, Baltray: the first date on its record is 1760.
How old are the homes in Baltray?
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page 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.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
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) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · 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).