Survey Data
Reg No
11903608
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Cultural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Handball alley
In Use As
Handball alley
Date
1930 - 1940
Coordinates
279689, 192287
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding mass-concrete handball alley, c.1935, on a corner site. Mass-concrete walls (tall to north; sloping to east and to west; short to south). Unpainted. Square-headed door opening. Metal door. Road fronted. Grass verge to boundary.
Appraisal
This is a fine example of a mass-concrete handball alley that is still in use. Once a common sight across the country, having been initiated as part of the cultural nation-building of the early Irish Republic, many of these structures have subsequently been demolished, which means that the example at Moone is an important, rare survival. Of considerable social importance the handball alley is also of vernacular interest, being a building type that is indigenous to the country. The construction of the building using mass-concrete is also of some technical/engineering merit. The handball alley is attractively located on a corner site and is a prominent landmark in the locality.