House · 1800–1840Slieveardagh HouseCommons
Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.01building on the National Inventory
History of The Commons · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
The Commons: 17% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 3.4%: The Commons has 5 times the share. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records 1 building in The Commons. Its oldest building dates from 1800.
On the National Inventory
1
Of national importance
0
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1800
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
17%
typical town: 3.4%
In pictures
A look at historic The Commons
Only The Warhouse has a photo so far; more of The Commons awaits one.
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.
The map
Where The Commons’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by rating
1 Regional and other sites
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).
Regional and other sites
One historic place in The Commons
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
Archaeology and around
Just outside The Commons
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside The Commons: 3
| Coalbrook HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 2 km outside the town |
| The WarhouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.4 km outside the town |
| House, GrangehillRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.5 km outside the town |
Homes by age
None of The Commons’s homes is newer than 2011 (5.8% is typical)
Older than 1981: more than half of the homes in The Commons. Building in the 2000s left The Commons with 9.3% of its homes, below the usual 25%. Homes dated from 1946 to 1980 are commoner in The Commons than in most towns: 56%, against 24%.
17%
Before 1919
3.7%
1919–45
56%
1946–80
15%
1981–2000
9.3%
2001–10
0%
Since 2011
The CommonsTypical town
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.
Neighbours
The Commons and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Commons | 155 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Callan | 2,678 | 78 | 2 | 84 |
| Thurles | 8,185 | 103 | 1 | 26 |
In brief
The Commons in brief
Old houses are part of The Commons’s character: 17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 1 place on the record. The oldest, Slieveardagh House, dates from 1800.
How to read these numbers
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 The Commons’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in The Commons?
1 building on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in The Commons?
Slieveardagh House: the first date on its record is 1800.
How old are the homes in The Commons?
17% 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.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
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 (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).