Castle St, Macroom

Area

72 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it, 271 m² on the ground

Zoning

M2 Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective

Townland

Sleveen East

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• CO071-048 Bridge
  Description

  In Macroom, 3-phase sandstone road bridge (overall Wth 8.2m) crossing Sullane River (E-W). Damaged by flood in 1853 (O'Keeffe and Simington 1991, 203). Seven semicircular arches over the river with two inserted wide segmental arches on W side; remains of semicircular overflow arches on W bank. Earliest part of bridge appears to be the S side (Wth 5m); roughly cut voussoirs, pointed breakwaters. Two breakwaters rise to top of parapet wall, becoming semicircular in shape; eastern one topped by recess in parapet wall, which contains memorial to An tAthair Peadar Ua Laoghaire. Bridge widened to N by 3.2m with similar semicircular arches; third arch from E has rectangular ope (3.5m x 0.5m) in crown of arch covered by slabs and modern road surface, known locally as the "Hangman's Hole" (Barry 1985,152). Wide segmental arches on W end probably inserted after flooding, cut limestone voussoirs, prominent keystone. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO071-050001 Graveyard
  Description

  In Macroom town, on N side of Castle Street; roughly square graveyard (L c. 40m), in occasional use. On N side, former C of I parish church of Macroom (CO071-050002-), on site of ancient parish church; now undergoing renovation as visitor centre. Inscribed headstones date from 1780s (McDonnell 1917, 20). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO071-050002 Church
  Description

  In graveyard (CO071-050002-), in Macroom town; former C of I parish church of Macroom. Church consists of rectangular nave with shallow apse, entrance porch near W end of S wall and 2-storey tower attached at centre of W gable. Nave lit by three windows in S wall with perpendicular-style tracery; apse lit by four pointed lancets; some late 19th/early 20th-century stained glass. Limestone baptismal font of 19th-century appearance. Apse buttressed; porch and tower have clasped buttresses, formerly surmounted by pinnacles. First floor of tower has louvred opes for bell loft. Described by Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 329) as 'a small modern edifice in the later English style, with an enriched porch, and is attached to the tower of the ancient structure'. This latter may be structure 'in good repair' in 1669 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 318). Church itself described as 'rebuilt' in 1824 (ibid., 321); attributed to George Richard Pain (Killaninand Duignan 1962, 364). Nave contains memorial plaque dated 1712, noted by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 181). Nave and tower may have been extensively remodelled in 1824, when apse and porch added. Interior remodelled again in 1898 (Cole 1903, 232). Deconsecrated in 1990 and currently (1994) undergoing renovation as visitor centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO071-156 Historic town
  Description

  A small settlement is marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) Barony map on the E side of the Sullane River and in the vicinity of the present day town of Macroom (Maigh Chromtha). The terrier of the Down Survey Map of Muskerry Barony recorded that, 'The places of note are the towne and castle of Macrumpre [Macroom] being a market towne, one of the places of residence of the Lord Muskry, the castle being a faire and strong pile with a bane [bawn], divers houses a fort and severall offices' (Hib. Reg.). The historic town of Croom is depicted as a cluster of dwellings arranged in a linear fashion to the E of Macroom Castle (CO071-049----) and Church (CO071-050002-) on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Macroom parish (NLI, Ms. 712-3). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded in 'this Parish is the Castle and Towne of Mackrompe [Macroom] consisting of severall good Towne Houses and large cabins and in the same is a Marckett kept once every weeke' (ibid.). The present Main Street follows the line of the linear settlement depicted on the Down Survey parish map. According to Zajac et al. (1995, 67) 'a settlement may have existed in Macroom during the 13th century when a castle was built here adjacent to a fording point on the Sullane river. Until the mid-19th century the town was the joint property of the Earl of Bandon and Robert Hedges Eyre. It became the sole property of the latter who was responsible for several improvements in the town including the rebuilding of the present market house and alterations to the castle transforming it into a modern mansion. Among the industries established in Macroom in the 18th century were a distillery and a woollen mill. Rock salt was also brought from England via Cork and distributed from the town for use in salting butter for export. In the 19th century flour mills and tanyards were established.' See attached Down Survey map of Macroom parish The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 August 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

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