Photo: Scaramanga731 · CC BY-SA 4.0Enfield: 13 buildings on the National Inventory
0.4% of its homes date from before 1919; the typical town has 3.4%. Its oldest building dates from 1780. For every 10,000 residents, Enfield has 35 buildings on the record; the typical town has 48.
typical town: 48
Where Enfield’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
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).
13 historic places in Enfield
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 6, A to Z
7 recorded by their type and address
7 are recorded only by their type and address: 3 homes, 2 walls, gates and bridges and 1 mills, stations and works; most date from the 18th century.
More homes than anything else in Enfield: 46%
The next biggest group is walls, gates and bridges, 2 in all. Its buildings rate regional: Enfield has none of national importance. From one type to the next, Enfield’s record lists 5 kinds of building.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Enfield’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
3 of the 13 dated ones were built before 1800.
Just outside Enfield
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Enfield: 4
| Ballyvoneen HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.5 km outside the town |
| Catholic Church of the AssumptionRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.7 km outside the town |
| Water pump, KilcorneyRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.7 km outside the town |
| Water pump, Cloncurry(cl'y Ed)(ikeathy\oughter'y By)Regional rating (NIAH) · 1.3 km outside the town |
Since 2011, Enfield has added 14% of its homes, against a usual 5.8%
Against a typical 3.9%, only 0.9% of Enfield’s homes went up between the wars. Just 5.1% of the homes in Enfield went up from 1946 to 1980, short of the typical 24%. 55% of Enfield’s homes were built in the 2000s, more than the typical town’s 25%.
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.
Enfield and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 3,663 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Longwood | 1,685 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Kilcock | 8,674 | 44 | 0 | 10 |
| Derrinturn | 1,837 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Coill Dubh (Blackwood) | 1,476 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Allenwood | 1,685 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Prosperous | 2,413 | 11 | 0 | 4 |
Enfield in brief
The official list counts 13 places on the record in Enfield. Of the 13 with a date, 8 come from the 19th century. The oldest is Enfield Railway Station, from 1830. Its homes are mostly newer: 0.4% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: it has 13 recorded buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 19); per resident it sits near the middle of Irish towns of 2,500 or more; and Peter Coffey (1876) was born here before 1900.
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 Enfield’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Enfield?
13 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Enfield?
House, Enfield: the first date on its record is 1780.
How old are the homes in Enfield?
0.4% 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 and English Wikipedia for people born here · 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).