The Old Courthouse · Photo: Rafał Wesołowski · CC BY-SA 4.0Avoca: 8 buildings on the National Inventory
Avoca has kept more old homes than most towns: 7% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The earliest building recorded goes back to 1820.
Landmarks of Avoca, in 2 photos
Two to begin with: The Old Courthouse and Avoca Bridge. The photos cover 2 of Avoca’s recorded places; the rest have a record card. Go back furthest in Avoca with The Old Courthouse: 1860.
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 Avoca’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).
8 historic places in Avoca
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
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Reg60% of the records in and around Avoca are homes
Regional importance is the highest rating any of Avoca’s buildings holds. Second on the record: churches and chapels, 3 of them. Leading the record by rating: Ballyarthur House and Castle Howard.
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped, for the records inside the town and those just outside it that belong to it; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Just outside Avoca
Places on the record just outside the town that belong to it, nearest first.
Just outside Avoca: 7
| Ballyarthur House (hunting / fishing lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 1.9 km outside the town |
| Castle Howard (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 2.4 km outside the town |
| Avoca Methodist ChurchRegional rating (NIAH) · 1.8 km outside the town |
| Avoca Copper and Sulphur Mines (mine / pit)Regional rating (NIAH) · 1.5 km outside the town |
| Castle Howard (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 2.5 km outside the town |
| Avoca Copper and Sulphur Mines (building misc)Regional rating (NIAH) · 1 km outside the town |
| Glenart CastleRegional rating (NIAH) · 2.6 km outside the town |
Only 1.4% of Avoca’s homes were built since 2011 (5.8% is typical)
Against a typical 24%, 31% of Avoca’s homes went up from 1946 to 1980. The busiest building years in Avoca were in the 2000s, which account for 36% of today’s homes. Before 2001, Avoca had already built more than half 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.
Avoca and its neighbours
Avoca in brief
More of Avoca’s homes are old than in most places: 7% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. All told, the list holds 8 places on the record. The oldest, Ballyarthur House, dates from 1830. The rest is about typical: most dated ones come from the 19th century; and Oliver Byrne (1810) was born here before 1900.
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 Avoca’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Avoca?
8 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Avoca?
House, Avoca: the first date on its record is 1820.
How old are the homes in Avoca?
7% 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 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).