Ballycarn

Area

5,012 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective

Townland

Ballycarn

Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Sept 2021Refused

  to continue to use the building (when refurbished) for residential rehabilitation use. The building was previously in continuous use since 2001 as a rehabilitation facility until it was damaged by a fire in 2018. Planning Permission is sought to repair and rebuild the fire damaged building and provide a rear single storey extension of 60m2. The building comprises 8 double bedrooms, shower room, toilets, staff room, plant room, gym, kitchen/utility, reception/office, stores, day rooms and resident rooms. The works include new fire safety systems, emergency lighting and fire escape doors. The total floor area of the extended single storey building will be 582.9m2. The building footprint will be smaller than the fire damaged building. All

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211289

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 11 recorded monuments.

• KD004-021001 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  A borough was established at Cloncurry in the thirteenth century on the site of an important pre-Norman church (KD004-021002-). The precise location and extent of the settlement is debated, but Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 2, 155-67) have identified two probable locations: one in the vicinity of the church (KD004-021005-) and motte (KD004-021003-) and the second (and, in their opinion, possibly the more likely) c. 700m to the S where a cross-base (KD004-021007-) lies. Their principal evidence is the hollow-way (KD004-021008-/KD004-021009-) in the vicinity of the cross, the occurrence of the name 'The Green' in this area on Netterville's 1752 map of Michael Aylmer's Estate, and evidence of settlement along the curving road (hollow way) shown on the same map (NLI Map 21 f. 50(4)). The Manor of Cloncurry comprised the following elements; an early church site (KD004-021002-), a motte (KD004-021003-), an unclassified castle (KD004-021004-), a medieval church (KD004-021005-) and graveyard (KD004-021016-), a friary site (KD004-021006-), a cross-base (KD004-021007-) and a hollow way (KD004-021008-/KD004-021009-). Historical information, including a list of tenants, is recorded in an Extent (or inventory/survey) of the Manor of Cloncurry on November 8th, 1304 (O'Loan 1961, 1-23). Archaeological testing and excavation in advance of the Kinnegad-Enfield-Kilcock Motorway Scheme revealed evidence of possible medieval field boundary ditches (KD004-021013-), possible medieval pits (KD004-021014-) and a possible medieval building (KD004-021015-) in the area. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 312; Murphy and Holton 1999, 97-106) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021003 Castle - motte
  Description

  A tall, steep-sided, flat-topped, earthen mound (H. c. 12m; base diam. 37m; summit diam. 12.5m). The summit is enclosed by a low bank, and the base is girdled by a broad fosse (Wth.6.5m), and an external earthen bank is visible SW-N-NE. The site was the nucleus of the original Manor of Cloncurry, granted to Adam de Hereford before 1176. It was described in an extent of 1304 as, 'a moat on which is situated a one roomed building with a wooden roof, which is not vaulted as no one is interested to rent' (O'Loan 1961, 2). The motte was erected close to the highest point of a ridge and down slope from the church (KD004-021005-). (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 2, 158-60) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021005 Church
  Description

  According to Bradley et al. (1986, vol. 2, 161-63), Adam de Hereford granted the church of Cloncurry to St. Thomas' Abbey, Dublin. In a later grant (1206-14) the church was named as SS Mary and Martin, but was still referred to as St. Ninian's in 1491. At the centre of a small graveyard (KD004-021010-) on an early ecclesiastical foundation (KD004-021002-) which was subsequently developed as an Anglo-Norman borough (KD004-021001-). The fairly poorly preserved remains of a 15th century structure comprising a nave (int. dims. L 20.75m; Wth 8m) and rebuilt chancel (int. dims. L c. 10m; Wth 5.7m) of roughly coursed limestone masonry. Most of the quoins are missing but the door jambs are of limestone and sandstone. The nave is represented by the S and W walls (both battered and the latter standing close to full height) and the collapsed rubble of the N wall. There is a centrally placed rectangular doorway with a segmental arch in the S wall and to its E only lower courses of walling survive. The W gable has two narrow pointed opes with narrow splays and round rear arches and is capped with a double bellcote. A gap in the collapsed masonry of the N wall may indicate a second doorway, opposite the one in the S wall. The junction between the nave and chancel is missing and the chancel was rebuilt as an Aylmer mausoleum in the 18 century when the original window in the E gable was blocked up and a modern window inserted. There is also an inserted window in the N wall. The S wall of the chancel is featureless except for an inserted cusped ogee-headed ope with concave chamfers of pink sandstone, at the W end. The surviving remains may post-date 1405, when the village of Cloncurry was burnt (Gilbert 1889, 268; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 312; Meagher 1979-80, 118) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021007 Cross
  Description

  Lies c. 650m to the S of a medieval church (KD004-021005-). A square cross-base (dims. 0.59m; 0.59m; H. 0.38m) contains a rectangular mortice (dims. L 0.24m; Wth 0.20m; D. 0.19m) and has chamfered upper edges upon which the word AMEN is carved in false relief. According to local tradition, a Carmelite Friary (KD004-021006-) once stood in the same field as the cross. (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 163). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021008 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Recorded on Netterville's 1752 map of Michael Aylmer's estate (NLI Map 21 f. 50(4)) and suggested as the possible location of the medieval borough of Cloncurry (KD004-021001-) by Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 2, 155-67). In level pasture. Visible as a broad sunken trackway (Wth. 7- 8m; D 1.5m) running approximately NE - SW (traceable L c. 600m) before forking at its SW end; one section running NW (L c. 80m) and the other SW (L c. 80m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021010 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on a 1969 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYR46). In gently undulating, poorly drained pasture, c. 100m NE of a fine motte (KD004-021003-.) A small square enclosure (dims. L 26m; Wth 26m) is conjoined with a smaller rectangular enclosure (dims. L 25m; Wth 15m) and both are defined by shallow fosses. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021013 Field boundary
  Description

  In 2001, archaeological testing (Licence no. 01E0156: www.excavations.ie) in advance of the construction of four houses exposed a natural hollow containing two field ditches, one apparently of medieval date. Modern field consolidation had filled the hollow to the level of the present ground surface, and covered the features in a layer of topsoil. The first ditch was 1.4m wide and c. 0.5m deep, and was filled with a friable loam containing a single sherd of late medieval pottery, the second ditch shared its orientation with post-medieval furrows. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021015 Building
  Description

  In 2001, pre-development, archaeological test-trenching (Licence no. 01E0264: www.excavations.ie) at the site of a proposed road-widening and junction improvement scheme at the N4-Cloncurry crossroads involved nine trenches being opened, three of which (nos. 2, 8 and 9) produced archaeological material. Trench 2 measured 10m north-east/south-west by 1.7m and contained the foundations of a stone building running east-west and then turning at right angles to run north-south. A parallel outer ditch or foundation trench was also noted. Ten sherds of medieval pottery were also recovered. Trench 8 measured 10m north-west/south-east by 1.6m and produced evidence of a substantial pit, or possible structure, containing twenty sherds of medieval pottery. A medieval hearth and possible medieval boundary were also identified. Trench 9 measured 10m north-south by 1.6m and also produced significant evidence for medieval activity in the form of ditches or boundary features, large burnt spreads, or burnt structures, and layered deposits. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021016 Graveyard
  Description

  Some 40m SE of a fine motte (KD004-021003-). An almost square area (dims. N-S c. 66m; E-W c. 66m) is enclosed by a stone wall, and contains a medieval church (KD004-021005-). An index of the graveyard records is available on the web, where the earliest burial listed is 1683 (Ireland Genealogy Project Archives, www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/kildare/.../cloncurry.txt) [Accessed 29 March 2011]. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-041 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In 2002, archaeological excavation (Licence no. 02E0988) was carried out in advance of the proposed M4 Kinnegad-Enfield-Kilcock motorway development. The site was previously uncovered during centre-line testing (Licence no. 02E0141). A circular enclosure and five pits to its N were recorded. The main feature was a ring-ditch, most of which had been ploughed out, and plough furrows were found across the site. No evidence of a mound or bank was identified. The ditch was 6.4-7m in diameter and 0.3-0.7m wide, being widest in the south-west corner and narrowest in the north-east. There was a sharp break at the top of the cut, with an imperceptible break at the base, giving a U-shaped profile. The ring-ditch was 0.1-0.2m deep and filled with a deposit of mid-orange/brown, loamy clay that had inclusions of small pebbles and occasional charcoal flecks. A number of small pits/post-holes to the north of this feature may be related, and one in particular showed evidence of burnt bone and charcoal. There was no evidence anywhere on the site of in situ burning. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2616 (ZIP).

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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