Dromoyle

Area

997,045 m² (99.7 ha, 246.38 acres)

Buildings

9 buildings touch it, 1,878 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

Dromoyle

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.

• OF038-013 Castle - tower house
  Description

  This castle was situated on a low rise of ground with good extensive views of the surrounding countryside. Today there are no remains of this castle that was pulled down in the late 1960s to the rear of the country house known as ‘Glenacurragh Castle.’ The present country house was built onto the southern wall of the medieval tower house and was connected to the house by a short extension. The site of this castle was located in the range of outbuildings to the rear of the 19th century house. The Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map of 1908 indicates clearly the outline of the tower house which was attached to the north-east corner of the country house. This medieval castle was an O’Carroll tower house probably constructed in the 16th century. The Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Offaly list ‘Lewis Carroll’ as the owner of the lands of ‘Glonocorrne’[Glenacurragh] and ‘Gragaluge’ [northern part of Knock townland] in 1641. After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the subsequent Irish Wars of 1641-53, these lands amounting to 215 acres of profitable land were confiscated and granted to John Holland in the second half of the 17th century. The 1655-57 Down Survey map of Ballybritt barony shows a small building at ‘Glonocorue’ which represents Glenacurragh Castle. In 1801, Sir Charles Coote (1801, 80) recorded that in this region, ‘There are several old castles, that at Glanacurragh [which] is inhabited by Mr. Palmer.’ An old black & white photo taken c.1954 shows the castle standing amongst the outhouses of the farmyard immediately to the north of the country house. The photograph of the east face of the castle shows that it was possibly a four storey high building with attic above which was entered through a dressed stone pointed doorway located off centre to the north in the east wall. The jambs of this doorway had an external rebate to accommodate a yett which protected the inner wooden door of the castle. This doorway was very similar to the doorway at Castlearmstrong. The staggered arrangement of two slit opes at the southern end of the east wall suggests there was a spiral stairs in the southeast angle of the castle. There was a square-headed cut stone window with chamfered jambstones directly above the main entrance into the castle. Directly above this window possibly at third floor level there was a 17th century twin-light square-headed mullioned window with hood-moulding and stepped terminals which are very similar to the windows at Ballycowan Castle. This window had been partially blocked up. There was a window in the centre of the A-shape gable of the attic of the castle. The rest of this wall was covered in an external lime render which covered any other features this wall may have possessed. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 28 August 2019

• OF038-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In demesne lands, c. 110m E of Glenacurragh Castle (OF038-013----). Outline of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 44m) enclosed by low bank and external ditch with possible entrance gap at S visible on Google Earth orthophotos. The location of the earthwork on the demesne landscape in close proximity to Glenacurragh House may suggest that this earthwork could be the remains of a designed landscape feature like a tree-ring rather than the remains of a ringfort. S half of earthwork is partially indicated with hachures on the revised 1888 ed. OSi 6-inch map and on the 1908 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The tree lined bank depicted on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map may represent part of the enclosing element on the S side of this earthwork. See attached Google Earth orthoimagery Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Finnán Reid Date of upload: 19 July 2022

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.

Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.

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.