- Address
- Main Street, Crank Road, Banagher
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14810020
Crank House
Also known as Crank House Visitor Centre
Main Street, Crank Road, Banagher
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Crank House
The National Inventory rates Crank House Regional, one of 31 in Banagher. Crank House dates from 1740–1760. 23 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This house, with its symmetrical design, typical of Irish towns, boasts the notable feature of a bowed entrance bay with finely-carved Classical doorcase, creating one of the grandest facades within the streetscape.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14810020 · 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 · 14810020↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Banagher · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
13 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Banagher
8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. The nearest is Birr Castle in Birr, 12 km away. Nenagh Courthouse in Nenagh is the farthest, at 39 km.
Questions about Crank House
Is Crank House on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14810020).
Can you visit Crank House?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Crank House built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1740–1760.
Is Crank House 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) · 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).