Monasteroris

378 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monasteroris, from 7 m² to 315,153 m² (31.52 ha, 77.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 64 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 207 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industrial and Warehousing (General industry)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Edenderry Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  a Residential development of 66no. Dwellings consisting of:• 1no. Type A1 Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 5no. Type A Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 12no. Type B Semi Detached 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 7no. Type C End Terrace 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 6no. Type C1 Mid Terrace 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 5no. Type C2 End Terrace 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 10no. Type D Mid Terrace 2 Storey 2 Bed Dwelling • 10no. Type E Ground Floor 1 Bed Maisonette • 10no. Type E1 2 Storey 2 Bed Duplex Maisonette • access from Edenderry inner relief road • internal access roads and footpaths • foul sewers to connect to existing public sewers via on-site temporary treatment system • surface water sewers to connect to existing public sewers • boundary treatments, landscaping and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 65 homes · Offaly County Council, 2660323

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2492

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXHIBITON AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, A SEPARATE MANUFACTURING WORK-SHOP INCLUDING STAFF FACILITIES; VISITOR AND STAFF CAR PARKING, BICYCLE PARKING, AN ASSEMBLY STORAGE AREA, HGV DELIVERY AND PARKING AREA, SITE BOUNDARY ENCLOSURE FENCING, SW AND FW SEWER CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING CAMPUS SEWAGE SYSTEMS, EXTENSIVE SOFT AND HARD LANDSCAPING WORKS INCLUDING TREE AND SHRUB PLANTING, ALL AS INDICATED ON THE APPLICATION DRAWINGS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2453

• 19 Apr 2024N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXHIBITON AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, A SEPARATE MANUFACTURING WORK-SHOP INCLUDING STAFF FACILITIES; VISITOR AND STAFF CAR PARKING, BICYCLE PARKING, AN ASSEMBLY STORAGE AREA, HGV DELIVERY AND PARKING AREA, SITE BOUNDARY ENCLOSURE FENCING, SW AND FW SEWER CONNECTIONS TO THE EXISTING CAMPUS SEWAGE SYSTEMS, EXTENSIVE SOFT AND HARD LANDSCAPING WORKS INCLUDING TREE AND SHRUB PLANTING, ALL AS INDICATED ON THE APPLICATION DRAWINGS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2443

• 7 Apr 2024Conditional

  1. Construction of a new single-storey extension to the rear and side of the existing house. 2. All other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460114

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-BEDROOM BUNGALOW, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23243

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR MEZZANINE TO FACILITATE INCREASED OFFICE SPACE. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO RETAIN THE NEW WINDOW ON THE FRONT (NORTHWEST) ELEVATION REPLACING PREVIOUS ROLLER DOOR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2375

• 16 Nov 2021N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP/WAREHOUSE UNIT WITH 90M2 OF OFFICE SPACE FOR USE ANCILLARY TO WORKSHOP/WAREHOUSE UNIT (B) PARKING TO THE SIDE (WEST) ELEVATION, (C) COLLECTION/DROP OFF HARD-STANDING YARD TO FRONT (NORTH) ELEVATION, (D) CONNECTIONS TO THE BUSINESS CAMPUS FOUL SEWER CONNECTIONS AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21712

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED RETENTION PERMISSION UNDER PL.REF. 12/133) TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES, EQUIPMENT CABINETS, FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HIGH SPEED WIRELESS BROADBAND AND DATA SERVICES

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21645

• 11 Jun 2021N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP/WAREHOUSE UNIT WITH 90M2 OF OFFICE SPACE FOR USE ANCILLARY TO WORKSHOP/WAREHOUSE UNIT (B) PARKING TO THE SIDE (WEST) ELEVATION, (C) COLLECTION/DROP OFF HARD-STANDING YARD TO FRONT (NORTH) ELEVATION, (D) CONNECTIONS TO THE BUSINESS CAMPUS FOUL SEWER CONNECTIONS AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21362

• 20 May 2021N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP / WAREHOUSE UNIT WITH 90M2 OF OFFICE SPACE FOR USE ANCILLARY TO WORKSHOP / WAREHOUSE UNIT, (B) PARKING TO SIDE (WEST) ELEVATION, (C) COLLECTION / DROP OFF HARD-STANDING YARD TO FRONT (NORTH) ELEVATION, (D) CONNECTIONS TO THE BUSINESS CAMPUS FOUL SEWER CONNECTIONS AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21313

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  (1) STORAGE SHED (2) TWO LOOSE STRAW SHEDS. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (1) CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21298

• 20 Apr 2021N/a

  (1) STORAGE SHED (2) TWO LOOOSE STRAW SHEDS IS ALSO REQUIRED. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT (1) CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21232

• 28 Sept 2020Refused

  A STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20462

• 11 Feb 2019Conditional

  (A)A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 97 SQUARE METRES TO THE EXISTING COTTAGE (B) RETENTION FOR A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED CONSISTING OF 21.7SQUARE METRES (C) PERMISSION TO CONTSRTUCT NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1948

• 9 Jan 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY STAIRS ENCLOSURE TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY BUILDING, THE CHANGE OF USE OF THE REMAINING TWO STOREY BUILDING FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL TO COMPRISE TWO NO. 2 STOREY HOUSES, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING BUILDING, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, SERVICES AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 188

• 3 Nov 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING HOUSE, A DETACHED GARAGE/FUEL STORE AND ANY ASSOCIATED WORKS AS PART OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 17431

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  (A) PROVISION OF SINGLE STOREY CHANGING ROOMS BUILDING WITH EXTERNAL PAVED AREA; (B) PROVISION OF SINGLE STOREY MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT STORE; (C) PROVISION OF CARPARK SPACES, SET DOWN AREA AND BICYCLE STANDS; (D) PROVISION OF 6M HIGH HURLING WALL WITH PROFESSIONAL NON-SPILL FLOOD LIGHTING ON 15M MASTS; (E) PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL NON-SPILL FLOOD LIGHTING ON 21M MASTS TO BOTH EXISTING GAA PLAYING PITCHES WITH ASSOCIATED BALL STOPPING NETS AND GOAL POSTS; (F) CONSTRUCT GENERAL SITE FENCING AND GENERAL SITE SECURITY FENCING, PATH / RUNNING TRACK, AND ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL LED LIGHTING AND FACILITIES; (G) ADJUSTMENT OF EXISTING VEHICLE ACCESS ENTRANCE, VEHICULAR GATES AND LANDSCAPING; (H) ERECTION OF GENERAL DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE ON SITE AS NECESSARY; AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1763

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF011-008 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Small flat-headed recess at side of road marks position of well - now filled-in. Does not appear to be of archaeological significance. Not visible at ground level. No local tradition of holy well in area marked on OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009001 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Featureless late medieval parish church (ext. dims. c. 9m E-W, c. 26m N-S) built with limestone rubble. Small double bell cote on W gable, E window destroyed and built up. Possibly part of the Franciscan friary that was later converted into a parish church. Franciscan Friary founded 1325 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 255). The remains of the Franciscan friary of Monasteroris, also known as Castro Petre de Mortoto and Totmoy (Tuath muighe). The record of its founding describes how the minister provincial and Friars Minor in Ireland accepted de Bermingham's invitation to build a chapel and dwellings in his town of 'Totemoy' in the diocese of Kildare (CPR, vol. 2, 1305-42, 245; Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1988, 107-8). The 1550 survey of Offaly recorded that there were two castles at Monasteroris, 'one newlie builded and thother all runyose', in addition to the ruined walls of the friary 'burnyd and rasid' and a mill and orchard (Curtis 1929, 326, Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 108-9). Located on flat ground with good extensive views. In NE corner of graveyard (OF011-009002-), ruins of long rectangular church (int. dims 22m E-W; 7.4m N-S; wall T 1m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The church interior has been altered by the insertion of three crypts of 19th-century date and 19th-century railing has been inserted into the E gable destroying the original window the N splay of which is still visible. A crypt has also been added externally to the N side of the W gable. The church is a multiperiod structure with the earliest period belonging to the late 13th/early 14th-century which is evidenced by a narrow single light window at the E end of the S wall with jambs displaying diagonal stone tooling. This window has been reset into the S wall in order to make the window smaller with evidence of an earlier blocked up splay to the W of surviving splay. The window is set inside a wide round arched embrasure. Originally there were four such embrasures on the N and S walls. The window at the E end of the N wall is the only other window to survive the rest were blocked up when the crypts were inserted into the church after it was abandoned in 1778. According to Comerford (1883, 140) there was a double bellcote on top of the W gable of which a single round arched bellcote survives today. No evidence of an original door was found. Two blocked doors on the W gable are probably 19th-century constructions contemporary with the crypts. Above these two doors on the W gable are two blocked windows probably late medieval in date. Punch dressed stone located on the interior of the W wall off centre to the N probably incorporated into the gable during the rebuilding phase in the 16th-century when the church was granted to Nicholas Herbert. Several pieces of a traceried window have been found in the graveyard along with two limestone punch dressed window jambs with bar holes of late medieval date. A single piece of Dundry stone belonging to a window was found during recent graveyard clean up. The church is probably part of the original Franciscan Abbey founded in 1325 which was altered in the late medieval period and again in the 19th-century. The buildings and earthworks to the NE of the church also belong to this 14th-century foundation. The graveyard contains some fine examples of late 17th-century headstones (OF011-009003/004/005-). (Comerford 1883, 140; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 29-30) Possible remains of the deserted medieval settlement of 'Totemoy' (OF011-009006-) may be located in the field immediately to the W of the church and graveyard. Remains of a possible castle that may be the original Castro Petre (Peter's Castle) (OF011-011----) is located in the field to the NE of the church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on flat ground with good extensive views. In NE corner of graveyard, ruins of long rectangular church (OF011-009001-) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The church interior has been altered by the insertion of three crypts of 19th-century date and 19th-century railing has been inserted into the E gable destroying the original window the N splay of which is still visible. A crypt has also been added externally to the N side of the W gable. Several pieces of a traceried window have been found in the graveyard along with two limestone punch dressed window jambs with bar holes of late medieval date. A single piece of Dundry stone belonging to a window was found during recent graveyard clean up. The church is probably part of the original Franciscan Abbey founded in 1325 which was altered in the late medieval period and again in the 19th-century. The buildings and earthworks to the NE of the church also belong to this 14th-century foundation. The graveyard contains some fine examples of late 17th-century headstones (OF011-009003/004/005-). (Comerford 1883, 140; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 29-30) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009003 Headstone
  Description

  Located on flat ground with good extensive views. In NE corner of graveyard (OF011-009002-), ruins of long rectangular church (OF011-009001-) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The graveyard contains some fine examples of late 17th-century headstones (OF011-009004/005-). To the S of the medieval church there is a small headstone dedicated to John Cofey, who died 26 March 1699 (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 141) (Comerford 1883, 140; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 29-30) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009004 Headstone
  Description

  Located on flat ground with good extensive views. In NE corner of graveyard (OF011-009002-), ruins of long rectangular church (OF011-009001-) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The graveyard contains some fine examples of late 17th-century headstones (OF011-009003/005-). To the S of the medieval church there is a headstone dating to 1690 which is dedicated to the Hecoke, Prise and Coulton families (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 141-2) (Comerford 1883, 140; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 29-30) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009005 Headstone
  Description

  Located on flat ground with good extensive views. In NE corner of graveyard (OF011-009002-), ruins of long rectangular church (OF011-009001-) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The graveyard contains some fine examples of late 17th-century headstones (OF011-009003/004-). Unlocated memorial in the graveyard that was recorded in the 1890s and described as a 'tombstone of Winwood Blundell, son of George Blundell of Edenderry, who died on 30 July 1680' (JAPMDI 3 1895-7, 488; Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 141-2) (Comerford 1883, 140; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 29-30) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009006 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Extensive earthworks survive which possibly are the remains of a deserted medieval village associated with the Franciscan Friary (OF011-009----) and de Bermingham Anglo-Norman (OF011-011----). May be the remains of the town of Tethmoy or Totmoy that is mentioned in the 1550 Survey and other documentary sources for the area. The remains of the Franciscan friary of Monasteroris, also known as Castro Petre de Mortoto and Totmoy (Tuath muighe). The record of its founding describes how the minister provincial and Friars Minor in Ireland accepted de Bermingham's invitation to build a chapel and dwellings in his town of 'Totemoy' in the diocese of Kildare (CPR, vol. 2, 1305-42, 245; Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1988, 107-8). The earthworks in these fields to the West of the church and graveyard (OF011-009001/002-) may be the remains of this medieval town. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-009007 Font
  Description

  Now situated on a pillar at the back of R.C. church in Edenderry but said to have come from Monasteroris (OF011-009007-), medieval octagonal shaped font (max W. 0.4m,H. 0.35m) with circular basin (D. 0.25m, diam 0.33m). Diagonal tooling on its outer faces indicating a 12th or 13th century date. Inscription on one face of the font reads 'MF O S F 1290', which is probably a later addition.

• OF011-010001 Castle - motte
  Description

  Low mound (max. H 5-6m, diam. base c. 35m E-W) with remains of stone building (max. dims. 8.40m N-S, 8m E-W) on top marked as pigeon house (OF011-01003-). Bank with mainly stone in it surrounds base of mound and appears mostly as a berm. The building on top could be a late medieval pigeon house. Extensive earthworks to E of site. Located on flat land with good views in all directions. Flat topped mound (H 4m; base diam 24.5m; top diam 4m) with enclosing berm visible at base of mound on S side only. On top of the mound there are the poorly preserved remains of a building marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Pigeon House' probably associated with the nearby monastery (OF011-009001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-010003 Dovecote
  Description

  Low mound (OF011-010001-) with remains of stone building (max. dims. 8.4m N-S, 8m E-W) on top marked as pigeon house. Bank with mainly stone in it surrounds base of mound and appears mostly as a berm. The building on top could be a late medieval pigeon house. Extensive earthworks to E of site. Located on flat land with good views in all directions. Flat topped mound (H 4m; base diam 24.5m; top diam 4m) with enclosing berm visible at base of mound on S side only. On top of the mound there are the poorly preserved remains of a building marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Pigeon House' probably associated with the nearby monastery (OF011-009001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF011-011 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  This site is located on flat land with good views in all directions. There is a river located to the north of this site, this river runs into the river Boyne. Franciscan Friary founded 1325 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 255) and marked on the OS 6-inch map as a 'Monastery (in Ruins) which is situated just SE of the possible motte (OF011-010001-) and consisting of a pile of collapsed masonry with portions of walls standing at N and NE. This monastic complex was said to have been founded by John De Bermingham in 1325 for the Franciscan friars, the church (OF011-009----) located in the graveyard may be the remains of the Friary. The remains of the Franciscan friary of Monasteroris, also known as Castro Petre de Mortoto and Totmoy (Tuath muighe). The record of its founding describes how the minister provincial and Friars Minor in Ireland accepted De Bermingham's invitation to build a chapel and dwellings in his town of 'Totemoy' in the diocese of Kildare (Cal. papal letters, 1305-42, 245; Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1988, 107-8). It is possible that the remains that are indicated on the 6-inch map as a 'Monastery' were mistakenly identified and may be associated with a castle possibly the Castro Petre (Peter's Castle) that was named after the De Bermingham's who established an Anglo-Norman manor here in the thirteenth century. Later in the fourteenth century the De Bermingham's invited the Franciscan Friars to their land and the church (OF011-009----) to the S of the castle may be the remains of their Friary. The present remains of the castle appear to consist of low grass covered walls forming a possible bawn are and the upstanding remains of two buildings one of which seems to be a gatehouse of a castle. The earthworks comprise of grass covered walls which form various buildings and what appears to be the enclosing wall around the N section of the site. These walls have an average wall thickness of 4m. This perimeter wall runs in an E- W direction for a distance of 62m, there is a gap in the W end of this ridge which is 1m wide, this may have been an entrance feature. Coming off the E end of this ridge at a right angle in a Southerly direction is another wall which is approx. 40m in length and on avg. has an int. height of 0.5m and an ext. height of 1m. Attached to the W side of this wall there is what appears to be the foundations of a rectangular shaped building with internal dimensions of 4.2m by 20m and ext. dimensions of 22m by 8m. Its enclosing walls survive to a height of 0.5m. There is a gap on the W end of the building which measures 2m wide. Approx. 5m to the W of this building there are the remains of a square building with internal dimensions of 4m by 7.5m. Again on the W side of this building there is a gap which measures 1.8m wide this may be an original entrance feature. To the S of the earthworks are the remains of two buildings which are in a ruinous state. Their condition makes it difficult to interpret their function. The most Southerly building appears to be a gatehouse with a moat running around the E side of the site. The walls of this rectangular gatehouse are extant to the first floor level only and are constructed of undressed stones of varying size held together with mortar. The internal dimensions of this gatehouse are 7.6m by 5m. Originally it is possible that the gatehouse and the range of buildings to the N of the gatehouse may have been part of an Anglo-Norman manor and may have then been converted into a monastic complex associated with the Franciscan Friars and later converted into a fortified stronghold of the O'Conors. The gatehouse may have been one of the two castles mentioned in the 1550 Survey of Monasteroris. This survey recorded that there were two castles at Monasteroris, 'one newlie builded and thother all runyose', in addition to the ruined walls of the friary 'burnyd and rasid' and a mill and orchard (Curtis 1929, 326, Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 108-9). West wall of the gatehouse: This wall is extant to first floor level only, most of its quoin have been robbed except on the Southern end of the wall where they are apparent from 2m above ground level. The base batter stones have also been robbed except on the Southern side where they exist to ground level. The only feature on this wall is a large opening which measures 1.9m wide and approx. 3m high. This gap has been blocked up from ground level for a height of 1.6m. there are no dressed stones apparent on the exterior of the wall. The interior face of this window shows that the window is recessed into the wall for a distance of approx. 0.5m while the arch of the window is the full thickness of the wall which is 2m. South wall of the gatehouse: This wall is covered in ivy and the eastern side is badly destroyed. The quoin stones have been robbed on both sides to a height of approx. 4m from ground level. There is evidence of a slight base batter on this wall. There is an entrance feature located off centre to the East on this wall, the base of this entrance has been filled up for a height of 1m. The gateway entrance comprises of a pointed archway which is set 0.82m in from the face of the wall, there are two nib holes located on the Western side under the arch. Just inside the entrance on the East wall there is a small bar slot which measures 0.21m by 0.28m by 0.25m deep. There is a corresponding bar slot on the opposite side which measures 3m long. A drawbridge across the moat in front of the gatehouse gave access to the complex of buildings behind this moat. This millrace runs up to the Old Mill to the E of the castle complex. East wall of the gatehouse: This wall is in a very poor condition and is covered in grass and is partially destroyed. However built into the thickness of this wall was a garderobe shute which 1m by 1.4m, this chute ran up through the thickness of the wall. Adjoined to this Eastern wall is a small rectangular chamber which measures 2m by 4m internally with the thickness of the wall being approx 2m. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF012-001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Grass-covered foundations on high ground overlooking surrounding countryside. Parts of SW and NE walls remaining (overall dims. 14m SE-NW, c. 12m SW-NE) but nothing to indicate nature of site. The orientations and size of the site would not indicate an ecclesiastical site, it may well be a tower house. (O'Flanagan 1933, 87). One of two castles (OF011-011----) at Monasteroris that were mentioned in the 1550 Survey of the area. The 1550 survey of Offaly recorded that there were two castles at Monasteroris, 'one newlie builded and thother all runyose', in addition to the ruined walls of the friary 'burnyd and rasid' and a mill and orchard (Curtis 1929 326, Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 108-9). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF012-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight rise in undulating countryside. Site now appears as an enclosure (int. diam. 33m N-S) delimited by a much degraded bank with possible traces of a fosse outside it. No entrance way visible. Workshop recently built into S wide of site destroying part of bank and fosse. Modern house extension intersects site at SE. The development site (NGR 26160/23300) is located on the north-west side of Edenderry town in Monasteroris townland. The proposed development (Edenderry Business Park) was for 21 single-storey light industrial/warehouse units with two-storey office areas in three blocks on a greenfield site. A badly denuded ringfort (OF012–002----) is located on the high ground in the southern field along the road frontage. Due to the close proximity of the ringfort, the local authority requested further information based upon excavated test-trenches. A test excavation was undertaken by Eoin Sullivan of Gort Archaeology unde licence No. 07E0383 between 2 and 9 May 2007. The site was assessed on the basis of 27 mechanically excavated trenches systematically located throughout the site of the proposed development. Two of the test-trenches revealed features, one of which was a modern land drain while the other was a small pit contained within the confines of the trench. Due to the presence of the ringfort and the pit it was recommended that all groundworks associated with the development be monitored. The proposed development received full planning permission and the first phase of construction works commenced in November 2007. Between November and December groundworks associated with the site access road, roundabouts, site compound and associated drainage works and attenuation tank were monitored. No features or soils of archaeological significance were encountered on the site. Further groundworks are planned to commence in 2008 (Bennett 2011, 299). The development site is located on the north-west side of Edenderry town in Monasteroris townland. The site was subject to pre-development test excavation (see above) and subsequent monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of the site access road, associated drainage works and attenuation tank. It is near a ringfort, OF012–002----. The groundworks associated with the first phase of construction of the industrial units took place between 21 and 30 May 2008. Monitoring was carried out as an extension to the excavation licence. The monitoring of Blocks 6 and 7 resulted in the identification of three small isolated features within both the footprint and the vicinity of the perimeter of Block 7. Two of the features appeared to be modern and related to modern/natural burning in the field. The third feature was an irregularly shaped pit and represented in situ burning in the field and was of archaeological significance. The pit was sectioned and measured 0.69m (north–south) by 0.6m. The single fill of the pit consisted of blackened clay containing occasional pieces of charcoal overlying fire-reddened subsoil. No artefacts were identified in the fill or were encountered in the removal of topsoil and there was a general lack of the typical modern wares associated with agricultural fields (Bennett 2011, 299-300). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 10 November 2011

• OF012-016 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  Medieval mill that is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Monasteroris and Ballynakill (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 108) may have been located in the vicinity of Mill Mount House. A disused mill-race runs past Mill Mount House and acts as a defensive moat in front of the gatehouse into Monasteroris castle (OF011-011----). The 1550 survey of Offaly recorded that there were two castles at Monasteroris, 'one newlie builded and thother all runyose', in addition to the ruined walls of the friary 'burnyd and rasid' and a mill and orchard (Curtis 1929, 326, Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 108-9). In 1574 a second land grant to Nicholas Harberte included the old town of Monasteroris with its dissolved friary, two castles and 20 cottages which was then renamed Harbartiston ( Fiants, vol. 2, no. 485; Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1988, 109). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF012-018 Earthwork
  Description

  Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 53m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Cropmark of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 29/09/2015. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 29/09/2015 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Redmond Tobin Date of upload: 3 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with modern shed constructed against rear elevation. Located on the roadside of the busy road to Edenderry. Pitched slate roof with rubble limestone chimneystack. Random coursed limestone walls with limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with limestone flat arches and limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with limestone block-and-start surround. Located beside graveyard and ruined church.

• Monasteroris, gate lodge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Monasteroris, built c.1810, with modern extension to rear. Located adjacent to entrance gates to Monasteroris. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack. Random coursed limestone walls with limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick reveals, limestone sills, timber casement windows and limestone labels. Continuous limestone label to window and door openings to front elevation. Square-headed door opening to front elevation blocked-up. Entrance gates comprise wrought-iron double gates flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on a limestone plinth wall terminating in ashlar limestone piers. Gates and railings flanked by squared-limestone quadrant walls.

• Monasteroris House, gate lodge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1780, with entrance gates flanked by quadrant walls adjacent. Gate lodge no longer in use. Hipped tiled roof with ruled and lined rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins and blind round-headed arches to front elevation with tooled limestone surrounds. Square-headed window opening to south-west facing side elevation with tooled limestone chamfered surround and mullion, sill and decoratively carved lintel with cast-iron pivot windows. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with tooled limestone surround and timber battened window. Wrought-iron double gates with spear head finials supported by channelled limestone ashlar gates piers flanked by pedestrian gates and random coursed quadrant walls with limestone coping terminating in limestone piers gives access to main house. Roughcast rendered demesne walls with limestone coping.

• Monasteroris House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey former country house, built c.1780, with central pedimented breakfront and flanking single-storey pavilions and extension to rear elevation. Burned and rebuilt c.1940. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone front elevation, rendered side and rear elevations with tooled limestone quoins, limestone eaves course and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with limestone surrounds with keystones and sills and replacement aluminium windows. Group of three windows above entrance porch. Square-headed door opening with limestone architrave surround, limestone cornice supported by corbels and a timber panelled door. Door set within a semi-circular entrance porch supported by limestone Doric columns and accessed up seven limestone steps flanked by wrought-iron railings. Two-storey ranges to rear enclose yard and create flanking set-back pavilions to the main house. Hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, pebbledashed walls, Diocletion and square-headed window openings and carriage arch and square-headed door openings with limestone surrounds to outbuildings. Walled gardens to south and south-east of house. Front site accessed through octagonal limestone piers. Gate missing. Gate lodge and entrance gates to road. Icehouse to south of house.

• Cartland Bridge, bridge, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry bridge, built in 1793, over the Grand Canal. Random rubble wall with dressed voussoirs. Parapets with dressed limestone blocks and curved string courses across faces extending to piers. Carved limestone name and date plaques to upstream and downstream parapets reads: 'Cartland Bridge 1793'. Pedestrian underpasses to canal banks.

• Monasteroris House, icehouse, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Circular-domed partly subterranean former icehouse, built c.1780, with tunnel extending to north. No longer in use. Random limestone vaulted dome visible from exterior with random coursed entrance elevation. Segmental-headed door opening leads to rendered porch giving access to brick-lined tunnel and ice dome.

• Monasteroris, country house, 1710–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay three-storey house, built c.1730, with extension to rear c.1840, and single-bay extension to west and two-bay extension to east. Flanked by screen walls. Situated amongst fields with mature trees and adjacent to site of former Monasteroris monastery. Pitched slate roof, hipped to west, with rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to rear extension with rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls with limestone ogee cornice. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to front elevation with limestone architrave surround with keystone and cornice. Timber panelled door and decorative batswing fanlight. Farmyard to north-east of house with single- and two-storey outbuildings with pitched and hipped slate roofs, and roughcast rendered walls. Outbuildings to north of yard with limestone flat arches to window and door openings. Walled garden to west of house. Gate lodge to south-west of house.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2259 (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.

• Monasteroris, Edenderry10 sales

Name

Monasteroris · Mainistir Fheorais

Area

4,137,885 m² (413.79 ha, 1,022.49 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteroris, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Monasteroris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasteroris electoral division: 892 people in 302 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycolgan, Ballygibbon West (Co. Kildare), Edenderry, Jonestown, Kinnafad, Rogerstown, Thornwell

Placenames

Monasteroris on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.