- Address
- Church Road, Bray
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 16301064
Cairness
Church Road, Bray
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Cairness
The National Inventory rates Cairness Regional, one of 318 in Bray. Cairness dates from 1875–1880. 17 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A well preserved late Victorian house which displays early hallmarks of the Arts and Crafts style.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 16301064 · 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 · 16301064↗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
Bray · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
4 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Recorded houses around Bray
The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Just 5.2 km away stands Powerscourt House, in Enniskerry. At the edge of the list, 16 km away: Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham.
Questions about Cairness
Is Cairness on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 16301064).
Can you visit Cairness?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Cairness built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1875–1880.
Is Cairness 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).