placenamesGranard
Gránard
The town’s market house has accommodated schooling, cinema and library services as well as trade and justice.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Gránard · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Granard · English · main form
Place & story
A public building with several lives
Granard’s market house dates to about 1785 and was rebuilt around 1925 after fire damage during the War of Independence. The architectural inventory records its use as a school in the 1820s and, at another stage, as a cinema. By the survey of 2005 it housed a library and offices. The ground-floor arcade survives in altered form, its former carriage openings filled with windows and doors, recording how the building was adapted to successive uses. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Granard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Granard Market House, record 13305027 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.