- Address
- High Street, Tullamore
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14807031
Round House
High Street, Tullamore
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Round House
Round House is one of 130 buildings in Tullamore the National Inventory rates Regional. Round House dates from 1710–1750. 70 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This substantial house on High Street is notable for its bold architectural design and was home to Edward Crow in the 1780s. According to local historian, Michael Byrne, Crow was responsible for the building of Crow street (now Tara street) of which nothing survives except the gable wall of a Methodist church.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14807031 · 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 · 14807031↗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
Tullamore · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
24 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded houses near Tullamore
Just 2.6 km away stands Charleville Castle, in Mucklagh. All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. “House, 102 Main Street” in Portlaoise is the farthest, at 30 km.
Questions about Round House
Is Round House on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14807031).
Can you visit Round House?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Round House built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1710–1750.
Is Round 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). 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).