Ardfrail Close, Oldcastle

Area

132 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 124 m² on the ground

Zoning

R2 A1 - Existing Residential (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective

Townland

Oldcastle

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.

• ME009-018 Church
  Description

  Situated on top of a broad hill within the town of Oldcastle. The church of Coul is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 260). Ussher (1622) lists a church at Oldcastle but provides no information (Erlington 1847-64, 1, cxviii). At the Suppression (1540) the church of Oldcastell was worth £6 to the abbey of Fore, Co. Westmeath (White 1943, 273). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Lord Dunsany owned 360 acres at Oldcastle in 1640 where the old castle and church are listed (Simington 1940, 268). Dopping's Visitation Book 1682- 5 notes that St, Bridget’s church of Oldcastle or Clotyn was in ruins since 1641 (O'Connell 1965, 171 2), but it was enclosed (Ellison 1975, 8). The present Church of Ireland church was built in 1816 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 448) and is on the on the site of the medieval parish church of Oldcastle or Clolyne. The church site is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 38m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Almost 60 memorials from the church and graveyard have been published, about half of which date from the 18th century (ffolliott and Jones (1968). Outside the church there is an unfinished disc-headed cross (H 0.5m; Wth 0.72m; T 0.14m) with the top part of the shaft missing, which probably led to the work being abandoned. The arms are short (L 0.1-0.14m; H c. 0.2m) and a large boss was being excavated on one face of the stone. The cross has a collar (Wth 0.4m; H 0.1m) and a shaft (dims 0.25m x 0.17m; visible H 0.36m) below. It may be 17th century in date. The memorial of Philip Tuite from Drumsawry dated 1692 (Ball-Wright 1908-09), which was in the church at Lough Crew (ME015-027003-), is now set into the inside of the N wall of the tower at the ground floor. It is a sandstone slab (H 1.88m; Wth 0.8-0.9m) with the Latin inscription incised in roman lettering under a shield in relief that is quartered and retains traces of blue and red colours. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 10 December, 2014

• ME009-018001 Graveyard
  Description

  The site of the medieval parish church of Oldcastle or Cloyle (ME009-018----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 38m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Almost 60 memorials from the church and graveyard have been published, about half of which date from the 18th century (ffolliott and Jones 1968). The disc-headed cross (ME009-018002-) is outside the church on the E side. There are two heavy recumbent graveslabs close to the S wall of the graveyard. The E one (2.24m x 1.05m; T 0.1-0.13m) has one end of the stone (L 1.28m) reserved for the crest, and there is an inscription with the date 1727. The crest is heater-shaped (max. Wth 0.37m; H 0.48m), with a chevron and three lions rampant, two above and one below. About 10m to the W and just inside the S wall of the graveyard is another heavy recumbent stone (2.3m x 1.15m; T 0.15m). The crest (H 0.57m; Wth c. 0.4m) is very worn. It has a two lions on top, two on the bottom and a line of three bells or mushrooms across the centre. There is an inscription, incised in cursive beneath this but it is almost completely worn away and illegible, though likely dating to the 18th century.   Archaeological testing (03E0105) by C. Read on plots immediately to the N of the graveyard identified no related material but there was a post-medieval well (excavations.ie 2003:1443). Further testing (03E0598) by E. O’Sullivan on the site of a single house c. 35m N of the graveyard at the closest point identified no related material (excavations.ie 2003:1444). Archaeological testing (05E0165) by P. D. Sweetman immediately S of the graveyard produced no evidence that burial ever extended outside the graveyard in this direction (excavation.ie 2005:1228).  Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 May, 2014 Amended: 7 August, 2014, 22 January 2021, 13 October 2025

• ME009-018002 Cross
  Description

  Outside the church of St. Bride in Oldcastle there is an unfinished disc-headed cross (H 0.5m; Wth 0.72m; T 0.14m) with the top part of the shaft missing, which probably led to the work being abandoned. The arms are short (L 0.1-0.14m; H c. 0.2m) and a large boss was being excavated on one face of the stone. The cross has a collar (Wth 0.4m; H 0.1m) and a shaft (dims 0.25m x 0.17m; visible H 0.36m) below. It may be 17th century in date. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 August, 2014

• ME009-018003 Graveslab (present location)
  Description

  The memorial of Philip Tuite from Drumsawry dated 1692 (Ball-Wright 1908-09), which was in the church at Lough Crew (ME015-027003-), is now set into the inside of the N wall of the tower at the ground floor. It is a sandstone slab (H 1.88m; Wth 0.8-0.9m) with the Latin inscription incised in roman lettering under a shield in relief that is quartered and retains traces of blue and red colours.  From Ball-Wright (1908-09): Monumentum Philippi Tuite, Dni de Fermor / & Newcastle quod in aeternam Patris sui / Memoriam Jacobus Tuite defuncti filius / proprio sumptu construxit et hoc carmine / inscribendum curavit. Anno Domini 1692 Hic jacet indigna consumptus morte Philippus / quem nimis ante diem sors inimica tulit, / quem vulgi obscuros virtus superextulit orbes / virtutisque comes non inhonora fides / quem labor et constans cunetis vigilantia rebus / principibus similem saepe dedere viris. / Filius Is tanti patris post fata superstes / struxerat impensis ista sepulchra suis / obit … 1688 aetatis suae 48. Translation (by the late Sir Edmund T. Bewley) The monument of Sir Philip Tuite, lord of Fermor and Newcastle, which James Tuite, son of the deceased, erected at his own expense in perpetual memory of his father, and caused to be inscribed with the following lines. AD 1692. Here lies Philip, cast down by cruel death, whom too unfriendly fate carried off before is time: whom valour exalted above the obscure realms of the common herd, and faith, the not unworthy associate of valour: whom labour and never ceasing watchfulness in all things ofttimes put on a par with the highest in the land. He, the son of so great a father, and the survivor of this calamity, erected this tomb at his own expense. He died … 1688, aged 48 years. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 December, 2014

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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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