Historic houses · Northern Ireland
Portrush Town Hall
Portrush Town Hall in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Portrush Town Hall is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Portrush Town Hall is a municipal structure in Mark Street, Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The structure, which is used as an events venue, is a Grade B+ listed building.
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Background
History
The building was commissioned by a group of local businessmen who decided to form a company known as the "Portrush Town Hall and Assembly Rooms Company" to finance and erect a town hall for the town: the principal landowner in the area, William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, whose seat was at Glenarm Castle, leased their selected site to them at an annual rental of £15 (). The new building was designed by Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon in the Scottish baronial style, built by Thomas Stewart Dickson of Larne in red brick at a cost of £2,300 and was officially opened on 12 August 1872. Following the truce of July 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and the UK Government, the first Lord…
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- Coordinates
- 55.2049, -6.6525
- Address
- Mark Street, Portrush
- Established
- 1879
- Official site
- www.currysfunpark.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q112626781 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Portrush Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Portrush Town Hall?
- Portrush Town Hall is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.2049°, -6.6525°.
- When was Portrush Town Hall built?
- Portrush Town Hall dates to 1879.