Caherhenesy

Area

2,872 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 235 m² on the ground

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Caherhenesy

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 2 recorded monuments.

• LI029-112 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In wooded area, on NW-facing marshy slope. Spring well consists of a muddy pool of water (1.6m N-S; 2m E-W) with large ash tree overhanging at SE verge. A small boulder partially blocks well outlet at N creating drinking area for cattle (D 0.3m). Ash tree was noted in 1840 when well described as ''reputed holy' (OSL, vol. 2, 25); no devotions noted at well in 1950s (Ó Danachair 1955, 204). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00383 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24527; F025.21.00382 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17057 and F025.21.00384 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24528. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020

• LI029-115 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  Kilshane abbey described by Westropp (1904-5, 409-10) as a 'Monastery of St. John of the Third Order of St. Francis, 1410. It was founded for conventual Franciscans by FitzGerald, of Clenlis (Cleanglass). Gerot Baluff f. Philip held "the patronage of the religious house of St. Francis, called Kilshane, with a water-mill [LI029-116----] in Ballingarry, and part of Kilnemona, in Clonkath," when he joined the rebellion, 1584 (Inq., No. 54). It has been confused with the Cistercian cell of Kilshanny, County Clare. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 138-9) a Cistercian monastery was founded at Kilshane in 1198 by Donnchad Cairbreach O'Brien, King of Limerick. It failed shortly after its establishment, and later in the fifteenth century it became a Franciscan foundation for the brethren of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis (ibid., 273). Fabric - In 1840 there stood a nave and choir, 39 feet [12m] by 19 feet [5.8m], and 33½ feet [10m] by 19 feet 8 inches [6m], with a tower 60 feet [18m] high, on two pointed arches, 15 feet [4.5m] high at the intersection. The tower had ogee-headed lights and an oblong ope under the weather-ledge of the nave roof. The east window was large and pointed, but the sill was destroyed. The north wall was 17 feet [5.2m] high and 2 feet 9 inches [0.84m] thick; it had a breach and a lintelled door. Only a few feet of the south wall, with a defaced door, remained near the belfry. The west end of the nave was down, and only 11 feet [3.35m] of the side walls adjoined the belfry (O.S.L., 8, p. 61). Old people say that the tower closely resembled that of the Franciscan House at Adare, having stepped battlements and double lights and string courses. It fell in 1854, not in the great gale of 1839, as usually told. The ruins are now levelled to the ground, having been used for building'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 January 2019

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.