Strokestown Park House (country house) · Photo: Irish Defence Forces · CC BY 2.0Strokestown: 29 buildings on the National Inventory
Strokestown has kept more old homes than most towns: 13% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1735. The Sites and Monuments Record adds 1 archaeological site inside the town.
3 pictures of historic Strokestown
First come Strokestown Park House (country house) and Strokestown Park House (gate lodge). Credit goes to 3 photographers, each named on the photo.
Strokestown Park House (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH)
Strokestown Park House (stables)Regional rating (NIAH)Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Where Strokestown’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
29 historic places in Strokestown
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
All 12, A to Z
17 recorded by their type and address
17 are recorded only by their type and address: 13 homes, 2 public buildings and 1 other buildings; most date from the 19th century.
Church Street has the most
Streets with three or more buildings on the record, by the address it gives.
Of the 29 records, 26 give a street address.
69% of Strokestown’s recorded buildings are homes
Strokestown’s record spans 5 kinds of building. In second place come churches and chapels, with 4. Two of the highest-rated records are Hartland House and Corcoran Brothers.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Most of Strokestown’s dated buildings come from the 19th century
Each building by the first date on its record.
2 of the 29 dated ones were built before 1800.
Archaeology in Strokestown
The Sites and Monuments Record lists every known archaeological site; most are field monuments with little to see. By kind:
1 archaeological site inside the town
Sites on the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory list drawn from this record, are protected by law: anyone planning work at or near one must give the National Monuments Service two months’ notice.
| Architectural fragment1 record |
Just outside Strokestown: 6
| Strokestown Park House (country house)National rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
| Strokestown Park House (stables)Regional rating (NIAH) · 200 m outside the town |
| Strokestown Park House (walled garden)Regional rating (NIAH) · 300 m outside the town |
| Strokestown Park House (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| Strokestown Park House (bridge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m outside the town |
| The GlebeRegional rating (NIAH) · 600 m outside the town |
The biggest share of Strokestown’s homes dates in the 2000s: 32%
New building in Strokestown runs at the usual pace: 5.8% of homes date from 2011 on, the typical town 5.8%. Homes built from 1946 to 1980 make up just 18% of Strokestown’s, against 24% in the typical town. By 2001, Strokestown had built the greater part of the homes it has now.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Strokestown and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strokestown | 850 | 29 | 0 | 1 |
| Lanesborough-Ballyleague | 1,733 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| Roscommon | 6,555 | 47 | 4 | 50 |
| Carrick-On-Shannon | 4,743 | 57 | 0 | 15 |
Strokestown in brief
Old houses are part of Strokestown’s character: 13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. In all there are 29 places on the record. On Church Street alone there are 9 places on the record. Of the whole list, 69% are homes.
Most of its dated monuments come from the 19th century: 24 of 29. The oldest, Hartland House, dates from 1780. Beyond that, Brigid Lyons Thornton (1896) was born here before 1900; and it also has an archaeological site.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Strokestown’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Strokestown?
29 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Strokestown?
House, Bawn Street, Strokestown: the first date on its record is 1735.
Are there archaeological sites in Strokestown?
Yes: the Sites and Monuments Record lists 1 archaeological site inside Strokestown.
How old are the homes in Strokestown?
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page 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.
History is described here, not graded.
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) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata and English Wikipedia for people born here · 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).