Overview
barracks — Tipperary is recorded as barracks in Tipperary. Random rubble limestone walls, built c. 1875, enclosing precinct of former barracks, with several entrance points. Square-plan bastion at north-west corner.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Random rubble limestone walls, built c. 1875, enclosing precinct of former barracks, with several entrance points.
People and work
The saved account records: Square-plan bastion at north-west corner.
How it changed
The saved account records: Recessed entrance at east, defended by side walls with gun loops and having dressed limestone gate piers with caps and plinths and lacking gates, with cast-iron bollards.
What survives
The saved account records: Modern gateway at west with painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered capped piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates.
Why it mattered
barracks — Tipperary matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Largely intact walled area, which is a reminder of the social history of the town. The retention of fabric to the various entrances is significant, the south-west gate being particularly well-detailed. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Tipperary Union Workhousebuildingunder 0.1 miles
- water tower — Tipperarybuildingunder 0.1 miles
- hospital/infirmary — Tipperarybuildingunder 0.1 miles
- officer's house — Glenview Squarebuilding0.1 miles
- Airmount House — Station Roadbuilding0.1 miles
- Tipperary Railway Station — Station Roadbuilding0.2 miles
- post box — Station Roadbuilding0.2 miles
- Abbey School — Collegelandmonument0.3 miles
- Abbey School — Abbey Streetbuilding0.3 miles
- Site of Abbey — Collegelandmonument0.3 miles
- creamery — Station Roadbuilding0.3 miles
- Castle (Site of) — Knockanrawleycastle0.4 miles
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