- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 41402318
Rock Mount
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Rock Mount
Rock Mount is one of 33 buildings in Ballybay the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Rock Mount to 1820–1840. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
One of several medium-sized houses in the district, this house is indicative of the prosperity of the Aughnamullen area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a prosperity strongly associated with milling and the linen industry.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 41402318 · 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 · 41402318↗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 5 minutes
Ballybay · about 100 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Rock MountStart here
- 2Bowelk House (walled garden)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded houses around Ballybay
Bellamont Forest in Cootehill is the nearest, at 9.2 km. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. At the edge of the list, 20 km away: “Market house, Market Square, Main Street”, Carrickmacross.
Questions about Rock Mount
Is Rock Mount on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 41402318).
Can you visit Rock Mount?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Rock Mount built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1820–1840.
Is Rock Mount 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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