Overview
cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing — Altamount Street is recorded as cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing in Mayo. The saved date range is 1840 to 1897. Its recorded grade or rating is Regional. The saved evidence fixes the building and its protected record while keeping unknown builders, people and changes open.
Why it was built
The record classifies cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing — Altamount Street as cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.
People and work
No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.
What survives
The public record still identifies the place as cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.
Why it mattered
cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing — Altamount Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A lengthy section of kerbing making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in an urban streetscape. 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.
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