Coolfune

Area

5,382 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 149 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

Coolfune

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 9 recorded monuments.

• LI031-038001 Historic town
  Description

  The historic settlement of Glenogra was described in the Urban Survey of Limerick as following; 'Glenogra is located on the west bank of the Camoge River in the centre of the county to the east of Croom. It is suggested that the placename derives from Gleann Ogra, "ogra's glen" (Westropp 1904-5, 433). After the coming of the Normans Glenogra was granted to William de Burgh (Empey 1981, 8) and it was only later in the thirteenth century that it passed into the hands of the Desmond Geraldines. An extent of the manor, made on the death of Thomas FitzMaurice in 1298, sheds information on the organisation of the manor and mentions that the burgesses of Glenogra then held six carucates of land and rendered 119s. 6d. annually in rent (Sweetman 1875-86, iv, no. 551: p. 255). In common with many of the other medieval boroughs of Limerick its subsequent history is unclear. Since it formed part of the property of the earls of Desmond it is possible that some form of settlement continued here until the sixteenth century but the documentary sources are silent on this fact. It is likely that the medieval borough was centred on the castle (LI031-038004-) and church (LI031-038005-) but no earthwork features survive. A large Fair Green is marked on the OS map to the south of the castle beside the road which suggests that although the borough may have perished the annual fairs, which would have been a vital part of its live, continued. Lewis (1837, i, 663) points out that in "the demesne of Cahir are traces of some buildings which are supposed to be the ruins of an ancient city". These "ruins" are the well-known medieval dwellings of Caherguillamore excavated by Ó Ríordáin (1942). Although the remains at Caherguillamore are substantial and are of the correct date it is unlikely, because of their distance from the castle and church, that they should be identified with the medieval borough of Glenogra. It is possible that the Fair Green may mark the site of the market place' (Bradley et. al 1989, 137-8). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Henry, Earl of Bath, was in possession of Glenogra on which there was a 'Castle a Bawne, 30 houses & Cabbins & a Mill together with a Court leet & Court Barron' (Simington 1938, 105). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 January 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-038003 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  The 'Old Mill' of Glenogra was described in the Urban Survey of Limerick as following; 'According to Westropp (1906-7, 177-8) a water-mill existed within the castle bawn (LI031-038004-) but the mill race is actually some distance to the west and north of the castle. The ruins of an old mill are marked on the O.S. map to the south east of the castle on the mill race and this may be the site of the medieval mill. The mill-race itself is 1m deep and 3-4m wide. The mill is mentioned in the extent of 1298 when it was valued at 30s. (Sweetman 1875-86, iv, p. 255)' (Bradley et. al. 1989, 139). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Henry, Earl of Bath, was in possession of Glenogra on which there was a 'Castle a Bawne, 30 houses & Cabbins & a Mill together with a Court leet & Court Barron' (Simington 1938, 105). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 January 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-038004 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Poorly preserved remains of an impressive multi-period castle which was first built as a Desmond Castle in the 13th century and later enclosed to the S with a bawn wall of possible 15th/16th century date. O'Donovan recorded a local tradition in 1840 that the castle was first built by the Earl of Desmond around the beginning of the 15th century although this dating may refer to the building of the bawn rather than the earlier octagonal shaped donjon. The castle and manor of Glenogra was described in the Desmond Survey of 1584 as ‘A castle very ruinous there without room or roof, and an enclosure or balne [bawn] whose walls are in great decay so that the castle is not defensible. There is near the castle an empty house having only one solar' or story habitable. It is situate on exceedingly fertile level land. Adjacent and belonging to said castle are divers demesne lands of divers kinds the best and most fertile of their kind containing 4 carucates of land which are valued in lawful-money and provisions to be delivered as aforesaid viz:— 6l. 13s. 4d. money, 12 cows, 20 pecks of wheat, 20 pecks of barley malt and 40 pecks of oaten malt. A water mill now in very great decay and therefore valued by said commissioners in lawful English money payable yearly at said feasts only at 10s. sterling. The vill or villate called Creans which before the rebellion had buildings now altogether devastated (the walls of an old chapel only being left. This vill with its lands which are very fertile adjoins the demesne lands of Glanogre castle and was member thereof: it contains with 200 acres by estimation of underwood (subboscus) about 12 years old 2 carucates of land valued yearly as aforesaid by the commissioners and to be rendered on the days’ (Murphy 2013, 152). The survey recorded that these lands which comprised the manor of Glannogre [Glenogra] were now ‘late in the tenure or occupation of Sir George Bourchier knight’ (ibid.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Henry, Earl of Bath, was in possession of Glenogra on which there was a 'Castle a Bawne, 30 houses & Cabbins & a Mill together with a Court leet & Court Barron' (Simington 1938, 105). Glenogra Castle was described in 1840 as following; ‘It is a very extensive fortress, consisting of a large bawn fortified with towers. The east side of this bawn is exactly one hundred and fifty feet [45.7m] in length and the south side is one hundred and eighty feet [54.8m]. The greatest height of the outer wall (which is at the east site) is twenty five feet [7.6m] and the general thickness five feet [1.5m]. It is very well built of square blocks of lime stone cemented with excellent lime and sand mortar. On the north east corner stands an octagonal tower of curious construction measuring on the inside nineteen feet six inches [5.94m] in diameter. It consists of four stories, of which the second is a stone arch of very strange construction; the other floors were of wood and each was lighted by three quadrangular windows of considerable size. On the south west side of this octagon stands a small square tower, to the top of which a spiral stair case leads, and near this tower on the west side of the octagon is a very tall chimney in good preservation. The walls of this octagon are six feet nine inches [2.05m] in thickness. There are several vaults (four in number) of curious construction in the north wall of this fortress, over which towers originally stood, but the towers are now entirely destroyed. This bawn was entered on the south side by a pointed gateway measuring eight feet six inches [2.6m] where the arch springs. The country people have disfigured the walls of this bawn by picking the cut stone out of its face. The fortress was built, according to tradition, by the Earl of Desmond about the year 1400, but I do not believe the octagonal tower above mentioned in near so old’ (OSL Glenogra Parish, 114). In 1942 the castle was described as following; 'A considerable portion of this castle remains. It consists of a rectangular enclosing wall 150' by 180'. On each of the northern corners of this there was an octagonal tower, part of the north-eastern one remaining. Its whole north side has fallen away. It was four storeys high, the roof of the bottom storey being vaulted. In this, the stones were arranged on edge in concentric circles. The spiral stairs winds upward in an anti-clockwise direction, which is an unusual feature. A high triple chimney which stood on the parapet of this in 1840 is now gone. A small round-headed doorway opens from the base of the tower on to the enclosure. The main entrance to the latter was on the south side through a pointed arched gateway in the wall. This remains, though the facing of the wall is gone both inside and out. The castle is said to have been built between 1400 and 1420. The builder was Thomas, Earl of Desmond. The Earls held it till 1583. 1593, Ed. Fitton, Sheriff of Limerick, fled, leaving Glenogra to the Rebels. 1600, Glenogra, a town of Sir George Bourchier, was wasted by Piers Lacy from Kilquig. 1655, the Earl of Bath held it' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 234). Glenogra Castle was described in the Urban Survey of Limerick as following; 'This stands on a large raised platform above the Camoge river with good views in all directions. Westropp (1906-7, 433) suggested that it was built c. 1400-1420 but in its present dilapidated state it is difficult to be certain. As the site of an important Anglo-Norman manor it is quite likely that there would have been a castle here from the beginning of the thirteenth century. The platform is delimited on the south and east by a ditch 1m deep and c. 8m wide. The castle consists of a large rectangular bawn, which may have had an external ditch (traces can be seen on the east), and whose walls survive to a height of c. 6-7m on the east. There appear to have been at least five separate structures within or enclosed by the bawn. It is built of coursed limestone masonry although much of the stone facing of the bawn wall has been removed from both the internal and external faces, except on the east where it survives relatively intact. A pointed entrance, with one bar-hole, survives on the south side of the bawn and an old roadway can be seen in the field leading up to the entrance from the south. This gateway may have had some form of gatehouse as two returns can be seen flanking the entrance on the internal wall face. In the south-east corner of the bawn there was a two floored building which is now completely ruined. The east and south walls were those of the bawn while the north wall survives to a height of 2.5m and the west gable is 4m high. There appears to have been a chimney built up against the east wall and an opening (? a door) in the east end of the south wall while two broken openings to the north may have been windows opening into the bawn. The south west corner had a polygonal tower which survives to second floor level but is completely inaccessible and overgrown. It may have had a rectangular annex on the north-east side and a vaulted passage to the south. Foundations of a tower with enclosing wall remain on the north west side of the bawn. A large four-floored octagonal tower occupied the north east angle of the bawn. Only the remains of the four eastern walls survive but a diameter of c. 7.3m can be ascertained for the tower. The first floor (which is at present ground level) is c. 4m high with a round barrel-vault. There are stairs (now blocked) in the north-east corner descending to the original ground floor. It has two deeply splayed embrasures on the north and north-west both of which were probably vaulted. The second floor is 1m high and there is a large fireplace in the south-east wall and a wide flat arched window in the east wall. The third floor had a similar internal arrangement. The west side of this tower is lying on the ground and one section, a pentagonal turret, is lying intact wit

• LI031-038005 Church
  Description

  13th century parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas with 15th/16th century transept added onto S wall of church stands in N quadrant of graveyard (LI031-038006-). Glenogra Castle (LI031-038004-) stands 210m to SW with River Camoge 110m to W. Church described in 1942/3 as following; 'This church measures inside 69' [21m] by 21' [6.4m]. There are two doorways opposite each other, one on the south at a distance of 20' [6m] from the west gable. and the other on the north wall. The west gable contains a narrow window high up. This had a round head formed of a rough arch of stones. The upper half is now filled up and the lower half has a flat top. The east gable contains three round-headed windows. These are all different sizes. The most southern one is the smallest and is now built up. The middle one is the largest and is 9' [2.7m] high and 1' 4" [0.4m] wide, outside. These windows have cut limestone dressings. A lateral house extended from the south wall of the church. The south gable only of this remains, and contained a large ornamental window now almost completely destroyed. The lateral house was 29' 6" [9m] long and 18' [5.5] wide. Westropp says that Glenogra church was dedicated to St. Nicholas in 1410. Lewis says the church was founded by the de Lacys' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 234). Glenogra parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas was described in the Urban Survey of Limerick as following; 'There is no evidence to support the suggestion that this was an abbey church (JRSAI xxv (1895), 379). It seems to have been a mother church, however, with a number of dependent chapels. Lewis (1837, i, 662) states that the remains of four chantry chapels survived and that it had tombs of the de Lacys, Roches, Burkes, O'Gradys and FitzGeralds. There is no surviving evidence for these chantries today, although from Lewis' description of the church one may conclude that they were located on the north side. References in the fifteenth century indicate that it was dedicated to St. Nicholas (Westropp 1904-5, 433). The ruined remains consist of a single aisled church with the south wall of a south transept built of uncoursed rubble limestone. The east gable which is almost intact is c. 8m high and has three narrow single-light windows of differing heights with chamfered rebated jambs and sloping sills. The rear arches are slightly off-centre and the south window is blocked internally. There is a small wall cupboard at the south end of the wall. The north wall is c. 3.5m high and it had two single-light windows near the east end. The jambs and arches are missing. There is a round arched opening toward the west end (?door) and a series of put-log holes at two levels close to the west end of the wall. The south wall has a maximum height of 6m but most of the wall is 3.5m high. A small quatrefoil piscina is set into a flat lintelled niche near the east end. Two, or possibly three, single-light windows with chamfered and rebated sandstone jambs remain although the arches are missing. A break between the windows with three stones of a sandstone jamb may have been an opening to the south transept. There is a splayed opening, opposite that in the north wall, in the west end of the wall but no jambs remain and the west end of the wall is broken. The west wall is c. 5m high and originally had a single-light pointed window in the gable which was later blocked and a narrow rectangular window with flat lintelled rear arch inserted into the blocking. The south wall of the transept, which O'Kelly (1942-3, 234) calls a "lateral house", is c. 5.5m high but its west end is missing. The transept was probably lit by a three-light cusped pointed window with pointed rear arch although very little of this survives. To the east of the window there is a cusped pointed niche with a quatrefoil piscina' (Bradley et. al. 1989, 141-3). See attached plan of church taken from Urban Survey of Limerick Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 June 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-038006 Graveyard
  Description

  The ruins of Glenogra parish church (LI031-038005-) dedicated to St. Nicholas stand in the NW quadrant of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 34m N-S x 51m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance stile at W. Concentration of post-1700 memorials in area to S and SE of church. N wall of church very close to N wall of graveyard. The head of a single light ogee-headed church window lies on top of the N wall of the graveyard. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 June 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-038007 Bawn
  Description

  Poorly preserved remains of an impressive multi-period castle (LI031-038004-)which was first built as a Desmond Castle in the 13th century and later enclosed to the S with a bawn wall of possible 15th/16th century date. O'Donovan recorded a local tradition in 1840 that the castle was first built by the Earl of Desmond around the beginning of the 15th century although this dating may refer to the building of the bawn rather than the earlier octagonal shaped donjon. The castle and manor of Glenogra was described in the Desmond Survey of 1584 as ‘A castle very ruinous there without room or roof, and an enclosure or balne [bawn] whose walls are in great decay so that the castle is not defensible. There is near the castle an empty house having only one solar' or story habitable. It is situate on exceedingly fertile level land. Adjacent and belonging to said castle are divers demesne lands of divers kinds the best and most fertile of their kind containing 4 carucates of land which are valued in lawful-money and provisions to be delivered as aforesaid viz:— 6l. 13s. 4d. money, 12 cows, 20 pecks of wheat, 20 pecks of barley malt and 40 pecks of oaten malt. A water mill now in very great decay and therefore valued by said commissioners in lawful English money payable yearly at said feasts only at 10s. sterling. The vill or villate called Creans which before the rebellion had buildings now altogether devastated (the walls of an old chapel only being left. This vill with its lands which are very fertile adjoins the demesne lands of Glanogre castle and was member thereof: it contains with 200 acres by estimation of underwood (subboscus) about 12 years old 2 carucates of land valued yearly as aforesaid by the commissioners and to be rendered on the days’ (Murphy 2013, 152). The survey recorded that these lands which comprised the manor of Glannogre [Glenogra] were now ‘late in the tenure or occupation of Sir George Bourchier knight’ (ibid.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Henry, Earl of Bath, was in possession of Glenogra on which there was a 'Castle a Bawne, 30 houses & Cabbins & a Mill together with a Court leet & Court Barron' (Simington 1938, 105). Glenogra Castle was described in 1840 as following; ‘It is a very extensive fortress, consisting of a large bawn fortified with towers. The east side of this bawn is exactly one hundred and fifty feet [45.7m] in length and the south side is one hundred and eighty feet [54.8m]. The greatest height of the outer wall (which is at the east site) is twenty five feet [7.6m] and the general thickness five feet [1.5m]. It is very well built of square blocks of lime stone cemented with excellent lime and sand mortar. On the north east corner stands an octagonal tower (LI031-038004-) of curious construction measuring on the inside nineteen feet six inches [5.94m] in diameter. This bawn was entered on the south side by a pointed gateway measuring eight feet six inches [2.6m] where the arch springs. The country people have disfigured the walls of this bawn by picking the cut stone out of its face. The fortress was built, according to tradition, by the Earl of Desmond about the year 1400, but I do not believe the octagonal tower above mentioned in near so old’ (OSL Glenogra Parish, 114). In 1942 the castle was described as following; 'A considerable portion of this castle remains. It consists of a rectangular enclosing wall 150' by 180'. On each of the northern corners of this there was an octagonal tower, part of the north-eastern one remaining. Its whole north side has fallen away. It was four storeys high, the roof of the bottom storey being vaulted. In this, the stones were arranged on edge in concentric circles. The spiral stairs winds upward in an anti-clockwise direction, which is an unusual feature. A high triple chimney which stood on the parapet of this in 1840 is now gone. A small round-headed doorway opens from the base of the tower on to the enclosure. The main entrance to the latter was on the south side through a pointed arched gateway in the wall. This remains, though the facing of the wall is gone both inside and out. The castle is said to have been built between 1400 and 1420. The builder was Thomas, Earl of Desmond. The Earls held it till 1583. 1593, Ed. Fitton, Sheriff of Limerick, fled, leaving Glenogra to the Rebels. 1600, Glenogra, a town of Sir George Bourchier, was wasted by Piers Lacy from Kilquig. 1655, the Earl of Bath held it' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 234). Glenogra Castle was described in the Urban Survey of Limerick as following; 'This stands on a large raised platform above the Camoge river with good views in all directions. Westropp (1906-7, 433) suggested that it was built c. 1400-1420 but in its present dilapidated state it is difficult to be certain. As the site of an important Anglo-Norman manor it is quite likely that there would have been a castle here from the beginning of the thirteenth century. The platform is delimited on the south and east by a ditch 1m deep and c. 8m wide. The castle consists of a large rectangular bawn, which may have had an external ditch (traces can be seen on the east), and whose walls survive to a height of c. 6-7m on the east. There appear to have been at least five separate structures within or enclosed by the bawn. It is built of coursed limestone masonry although much of the stone facing of the bawn wall has been removed from both the internal and external faces, except on the east where it survives relatively intact. A pointed entrance, with one bar-hole, survives on the south side of the bawn and an old roadway can be seen in the field leading up to the entrance from the south. This gateway may have had some form of gatehouse as two returns can be seen flanking the entrance on the internal wall face. In the south-east corner of the bawn there was a two floored building which is now completely ruined. The east and south walls were those of the bawn while the north wall survives to a height of 2.5m and the west gable is 4m high. There appears to have been a chimney built up against the east wall and an opening (? a door) in the east end of the south wall while two broken openings to the north may have been windows opening into the bawn. The south west corner had a polygonal tower which survives to second floor level but is completely inaccessible and overgrown. It may have had a rectangular annex on the north-east side and a vaulted passage to the south. Foundations of a tower with enclosing wall remain on the north west side of the bawn. A large four-floored octagonal tower (LI031-038004-)occupied the north east angle of the bawn' (Bradley et. al. 1989, 139-41). Castle described by Salter (2004, 84) as the 'remains a massive octagonal tower 13m in diameter with a dome-vault and staircases following the line of the outer wall. There is also the lower part of a wall 3m thick connecting it to the base of a second tower which is a semi-octagon. The original bawn would have been about 40m square and may have been copied from the Staffords' castle at Newport in South Wales which has octagonal corner towers on the river front. A thinner wall of late 16th date has replaced the original wall on the south and east sides and extends the enclosure another 20m to the west. It has a plain pointed gateway arch on the south side. The castle was ruinous when forfeited in 1583. It was later granted to the Bourchiers, later earls of Bath'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 March 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-038008 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, 200m NE of a public road, which also marks a townland boundary with Coolfune. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 31: AP 4/3646). Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (23.5m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 3 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/6 & 7 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/11 & 12 taken 05/10/2002.

• LI031-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Monument described by O'Kelly (1942-3, 235) as following; 'This consists of a circular earthen platform surrounded by a water-logged fosse. The height of the platform over the fosse bottom is 7' [2.1m] and the overall diameter is 160' [48.7m]. The entrance is not recognisable. The south side of the fosse is heavily overgrown. It is situated in good low-land'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 01 August 2019

• LI031-209 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In flat pasture within a small field 134m SE of the Morningstar River and the townland boundary with Mortgage. Glenogra Castle (LI031-038004-) lies 60m to WNW with an enclosure (LI031-038008-) 185m to SSE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The ring-barrow is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12; not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 1000: AP 4/3598) as a ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 6m). The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 but not on the later orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 1000 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 20 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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Ground and risks

Radon

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Landslides

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Terrain model

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