- Address
- Geashill
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14814025
Ballydownan Cottage
Geashill
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Ballydownan Cottage
Ballydownan Cottage is one of 20 buildings in Geashill the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Ballydownan Cottage to 1860–1880. 12 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This is a distinctive thatched house by virtue of double-pile plan. The sweeping of the thatch at the gables and the thatched canopy to the gable window, are unusual features.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14814025 · 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 · 14814025↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 4 historic places in about 10 minutes
Geashill · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Ballydownan CottageStart here
- 2Rose CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
- 3
Saint Mary's Church (Geashill)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on - 4Geashill CastleRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Like it: recorded houses near Geashill
The nearest is Charleville Castle in Mucklagh, 14 km away. Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. Farm house in Kilmeage is the farthest, at 33 km.
Questions about Ballydownan Cottage
Is Ballydownan Cottage on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14814025).
Can you visit Ballydownan Cottage?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Ballydownan Cottage built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1860–1880.
Is Ballydownan Cottage 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).
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).