Overview
Glenbrook — Castleconnell is recorded as house in Limerick. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having bay windows to ground floor. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves having timber brackets.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having bay windows to ground floor.
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves having timber brackets.
How it changed
The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course.
What survives
The saved account records: Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south-west with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered walls having cast-iron railings.
Why it mattered
Glenbrook — Castleconnell matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An attractive, well proportioned house, which is identified by distinctive features such as the overhanging eaves which enhance the architectural value of the composition. Well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with much of the original form intact, together with a number of important salient features and materials. 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.
Add the human story, a picture, a first-hand message or a missing place.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add a pictureAdd its storyTalk or ask a questionAdd a new placeThis official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
Conversation about this place
Questions and messages sit beneath the source record. They are checked before appearing.
No questions or messages yet.
Ask a question or join the conversation