21st Lock
About 21st Lock
21st Lock is one of 1 buildings in Ballinagar the National Inventory rates Regional. 21st Lock dates from 1785–1805. 3 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This is the 21st lock on the Grand Canal. The lock is still in operation today as it was in the late eighteenth century.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14918007 · 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 · 14918007↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 3 historic places in about 10 minutes
Ballinagar · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded walls, gates and bridges near Ballinagar
Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Closest of all: 23rd Lock, Tullamore, 1.9 km away. Killeen Bridge in Daingean is the farthest, at 7.8 km.
Questions about 21st Lock
Is 21st Lock on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14918007).
Can you visit 21st Lock?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was 21st Lock built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1785–1805.
Is 21st Lock 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) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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