- Type
- Country house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14942009
Clareen
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Clareen
The National Inventory rates Clareen Regional, one of 10 in Shinrone. Clareen dates from 1750–1790.
This attractive country house, which is set in its own grounds, contributes to the built heritage of County Offaly. Clareen has a symmetrical façade typical of eighteenth-century country houses with an open-bed pediment door surround with robust and bold Doric pilasters.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14942009 · 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 · 14942009↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Clareen
Shinrone
Recorded houses around Shinrone
8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. Damer House in Roscrea is the nearest, at 9.1 km. Thurles Courthouse in Thurles is the farthest, at 36 km.
Questions about Clareen
Is Clareen on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14942009).
Can you visit Clareen?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Clareen built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1750–1790.
Is Clareen 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).