- Address
- The Green, Main Street, Blessington
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 16303024
Quidara
The Green, Main Street, Blessington
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Quidara
Quidara is one of 27 buildings in Blessington the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Quidara to 1900–1920. 14 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
One of the few detached early 20th-century dwellings within Blessington, this house (though neglected) is still in largely original condition. Its presence is of benefit to the streetscape but its impact has been lessened by its condition.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 16303024 · 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 · 16303024↗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
Blessington · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded houses around Blessington
Hell Fire Club in Firhouse is the nearest, at 16 km. 8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. The farthest is Rathfarnham Castle in Rathfarnham, 21 km away.
Questions about Quidara
Is Quidara on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 16303024).
Can you visit Quidara?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Quidara built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1900–1920.
Is Quidara 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).