Lourdes Square, Drogheda

Area

144 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 117 m² on the ground

Zoning

R2 Existing Residential (Louth County Development Plan) The objective

Townland

Moneymore

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 83 recorded monuments.

• LH024-041 Historic town
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• LH024-041001 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  A priory of the Dominican order founded c. 1224 by Luke Netterville, archbishop of Armagh. The only standing remains now to be seen are those of the central tower, built of coursed limestone blocks, greywacke and rough stone. It has two floor levels above the arch, the lower one having a twin-light window with transom and tracery in each of the four walls. The window arches are two-centred, are constructed of hard grey sandstone and are typical of the late medieval period. The windows of the upper floor level are also twin-lighted with transom and Y-shaped tracery but are taller than those of the lower stage. The stairwell is contained in the NW angle which projects northwards. In its N façade it has a doorway c. 6m above the present ground level. It has a two-centred arch of limestone with cut limestone jambs and several plain window slits for light. The lower floor level is roofed with a ribbed vault which springs from stylised human heads. The arch of the tower at both the nave and chancel sides is constructed of hard grey moulded sandstone in three orders which descend onto single jambs of chamfered limestone. The remains of jambs of a sandstone arch can be seen in the SW angle of the tower, presumably part of the original arcading at the S side of the nave. The line of the roofs of the nave and chancel is also clearly to be seen in the E and W façades of the tower. The treatment of the stonework in the windows and the doorway to the stairwell indicates a late medieval date, probably early fifteenth-century. In 1949 house foundations were dug just to the W of the tower and a small number of line-impressed tiles were found (CLAJ 1950, 182), and in 1951 further excavations in the same area revealed the foundations of a wall. (CLAJ 1906, 77; CLAJ 1941, 32-6; CLAJ 1945, 23-4; CLAJ 1949, 97) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• LH024-041002 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Franciscan Friary situated close to the customs house at Drogheda and thought to have been established about 1245 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 247-8). No visible surface trace. (Bradley 1984b, 107-8; D'Alton 1844, 128-31; CLAJ 1941, 36-41; CLAJ 1943, 257-8) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• LH024-041004 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 The parish church of Drogheda in Louth was established before 1186 and granted to the Augustinian canons of Llanthony Prima by Hugh de Lacy (Brooks 1953, 79). It apparently stood on or close to the present St Peter's (Church of Ireland) and as well as being a parish church was a college. All that survives of the medieval structure are a few pieces of cut stone, but according to Leask (1966, 117) it was a large church. According to Isaac Butler's Journal of 1744 (CLAJ 1922, 94) it had cross-aisles and three chancels, a large W aisle divided into three by two ranges of pillars, and ten great arches with a central steeple. It seems from this description to have had transepts, two side chapels and a tower at the crossing. There are nine pieces of cut stone set in concrete in the N side of the present church. Eight appear to be from the late medieval period and are decorated with a rosette type of ornament. There are three other fragments in the porch, including part of a cusped double-light window. In the church there is a decorated sandstone corbel in the W wall of the N side of the nave. Its decoration consists of foliage carved in low relief and it is almost certainly no later than the thirteenth century. Davies (CLAJ 1945, 23) mentions a drip moulding decorated with animals and vine leaves and illustrates the pieces (fig. 1) but they are now missing. (CLAJ 1945, 22-3; Bradley 1984b, 98-100)

• LH024-041006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Probable tower house, commonly called the Old Tholsel or Castle of Comfort (D'Alton 1844, vol. 1, 100-1), lay at the foot of the hill on the Meath side of the River Boyne and is shown on Newcomen's map of 1657 (D'Alton 1844, vol. 1, 285). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• LH024-041008 Religious house - Fratres Cruciferi
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated to W of Butter Gate, Drogheda. Priory of St John of Jerusalem, Fratres Cruciferi, founded in twelfth century. Shown on Place's drawing of 1698, but not on Ravell's map of Drogheda in 1749. No visible surface trace. Its precise location is not known. (CLAJ 1945, 27; Bradley 1984b, 108)

• LH024-041009 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on high ground to the S of the River Boyne within the medieval walls of Drogheda and consisting of a high steep mound (H 14.7-16m, max. diam. at base 62.5m, at summit 27.6m) with the remains of a D-shaped bailey (Wth 68m by 50m) at the W. Orpen (1908; fig. on p. 249) illustrates the bailey fosse and the line of part of another one at the SE side of the motte which is now occupied by a roadway. He also illustrates a sub-rectangular lower bailey at the NW but there is no surface evidence of this. The name 'Millmount' (the name applied to the site on the OS 6-inch map) is apparently derived from the fact that there was a windmill erected on the motte in the fifteenth century. This was replaced in 1810 by a Martello tower (IFC Schools MSS vol. 680, 200), the remains of which still stand on the summit of the motte. The bailey is clearly defined on all but the N side by a steep escarpment and is now occupied by a housing development. A wall marking the line of the so-called lower bailey is of modern origin and is hardly part of the original defences as the N side of the D-shaped bailey is likely to have returned onto the NW side of the motte. (Orpen 1908, 246-50; CLAJ 1931, 406; CLAJ 1943, 243-4)

• LH024-041010 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated within the SE angle of the town walls, this was the parish church of Drogheda in Meath established by Hugh de Lacy before 1186. A priory was in existence here by 1309 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 288). There appear to be no obvious remains of this foundation surviving, but there are ruins of a small structure immediately to the S of the modern church. However, this is featureless and is unlikely to date to the medieval period. (Bradley 1984b, 94-6)

• LH024-041011 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  A house of Augustinian friars was established at Drogheda in the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) according to Ware (1705, 90), and it was sometimes known as Pontanense because of its associated with the bridge (Archdall 1722, 314). An Irish chapter of the order was held there in 1359, and it was decided to introduce the Observant rule in 1517 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 298). At the suppression in 1540 it was described as the church and certain superfluous buildings, an orchard and a garden amounting to one and a half acres (White 1943, 246-7). The ruins survive, although they have been mistakenly called the hospital of Mary d’Urso beginning with D’Alton (1844, vol. 1, 111-16), but this is now firmly identified as the house of the Augustinian friars (McHugh 2019). The standing remains consist of part of the nave, chancel, the W gable of the N aisle, and the central bell-tower. It is built of roughly coursed limestone blocks, greywacke and rubble. There is virtually nothing left of the nave except for portions of the S wall which have been disturbed and in places rebuilt with brick. To the N of where the W end of the nave should be there are the remains of a gable wall containing a window, now filled in, which is presumably the W end of a destroyed N aisle. It is a two-centred arch of moulded sandstone and its W façade has the remains of carved heads at the base of the arch, that at the N side being almost completely eroded. The N jamb is missing while that at the S side is of moulded sandstone. The E façade has a simple two-centred moulded arch of sandstone. Part of a later wall abuts the S side of the nave at right angles. It contains a now blocked opening with segmental arch of hammer-dressed blocks of limestone which must be of late medieval date. The vaulting of the cross-tower is stepped upwards in three stages and there are two floor levels above the arch. The upper one has a twin-light transomed window at each side, while the lower stage has a small plain rectangular opening immediately below the apex of the original roof lines of the nave and chancel, but this is hardly big enough to give access to the lofts of these structures. The windows of the upper level have cusped ogee-headed arches of limestone. There is a plain rectangular-shaped doorway in the SE angle of the tower just below the line of the roof of the chancel which must have given access to a gallery. The arches of the tower are two-centred and are constructed with chamfered grey sandstone. There is a doorway in the S face of the tower at first-floor level. It has a segmental arch constructed with rough blocks of greywacke and limestone. It presumably gave access from the first-floor level of the domestic range to the tower, which in turn led to the chancel gallery - a similar arrangement to that at Carlingford Priory (LH005-042013-). The E window of the chancel has a large two-centred arch, but since all the tracery has been robbed it is not possible to say what type of dressed stone was used or what number of lights there were. The S wall of the chancel has one half of a small arch, now blocked, about 6m E of the central tower. It has a central keystone and limestone blocks. Just to the E and at a slightly higher level there is a moulded sandstone window jamb. In the S façade of the S wall of the chancel just to the E of the tower are the remains of a doorway at ground level, now blocked. All the arch and jamb stones, which are limestone blocks, are still in position. It has a two-centred pointed arch with keystone and is quite plain. It gave access in late medieval times to the chancel from the cloister. About 26m S of the nave there is a short E-W stretch of medieval walling (L c. 7m) which has the remains of a splay at its W extremity. On the same E-W line as this wall and c. 13m to the E there is a further small fragment which contains punch-dressed quoin stones and may be a jamb from a late medieval doorway. (Bradley 1978, 116-17; CLAJ 1941, 25-32; CLAJ 1945, 24-5; CLAJ 1959, 154-9) The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007 Amended: 17 May 2022

• LH024-041013 Font
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated in St Peter's church (Church of Ireland) and consisting of a massive bowl, well decorated and seated on a modern plinth and base. The bowl is octagonal, formed as two registers with decorated panels, and lined with lead. The panels, which are described and illustrated by Roe (1976, 257-62), are framed by twisted 'vine-stem' mouldings. The font is said to have been broken deliberately by Cromwell in 1649. It was repaired in 1921 and a plaque commemorating this restoration work replaced a broken portion of one of the panels. The upper register of panels have round-headed niches separated by plain pillars and filled with figures. The panels of the lower register, some of which are very badly damaged, all have single niches within which are angels holding scrolls. This font probably dates from the early sixteenth century. Roe (1976, 261-2) points out that there is a decorated stone fragment, which is similar in style to the font and is possibly part of the stem, situated in the church porch. (JRSAI 1921, 77-8; Roe 1976, 255-62)

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Architectural heritage

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