- Address
- Cahir
- Type
- Officer's house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 22208105
Carn Brae
Cahir
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Carn Brae
Carn Brae is one of 69 buildings in Cahir the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Carn Brae to 1840–1880. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This house was built to accommodate officers stationed in the adjacent barracks. The scale and design are distinctive and the building retains features such as tiled floors throughout its interior, and some timber sash windows.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 22208105 · 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 · 22208105↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 3 historic places in about 5 minutes
Cahir · about 300 m on foot, as the crow flies















- 1Carn BraeStart here
- 2Mount CarmelRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 3Waterloo CottageRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Swiss CottageInternational rating (NIAH)1.1 kmDuneske House (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH)1.1 kmDuneske House (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH)1.3 kmDuneske House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH)1.3 kmSaint Mary's Catholic ChurchRegional rating (NIAH)1.4 km
Cahir Castle, CahirNational monument to visit1.4 km1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded houses around Cahir
Within 40 km, 8 have a photo. The nearest is Ardfinnan Castle in Ardfinnan, 6.9 km away. “House, 12 Parnell Street” in Clonmel is the farthest, at 16 km.








Questions about Carn Brae
Is Carn Brae on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 22208105).
Can you visit Carn Brae?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Carn Brae built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1840–1880.
Is Carn Brae 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).