Toberronan

Area

28,749 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres)

Buildings

15 buildings touch it, 5,455 m² on the ground

Zoning

C3 Enterprise and Employment (Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
M1 Town Centre/Mixed Use (Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective

Townland

Toberronan

Planning applications on this parcel

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, LOOSE HOUSE AREA AND SILAGE PIT INTO A ROBOTIC MILKING AREA, DAIRY, MACHINE ROOM, FARM OFFICE, EASYFEED CUBICLES WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE AND LOOSE HOUSE AREA, EXTENSION TO DRY STORE, LIVESTOCK SHED EXTENSION, SILAGE PIT, CONCRETE YARDS AND ANCILLARY WORKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23146

• 16 Mar 2023N/a

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, LOOSE HOUSE AREA AND SILAGE PIT INTO A ROBOTIC MILKING AREA, DAIRY, MACHINE ROOM, FARM OFFICE, EASYFEED CUBICLES WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE AND LOOSE HOUSE AREA, EXTENSION TO DRY STORE, LIVESTOCK SHED EXTENSION, SILAGE PIT, CONCRETE YARDS AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23116

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 8 recorded monuments.

• OF018-195 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location of the stone from Gortnagullenagh, Co. Kerry (KE044-094002) and forms part of the ogham stone collection of the National Museum of Ireland. It was described by Cuppage (1986, no. 699) as follows: 'A cross-inscribed ogham stone formerly acted as a lintel over the doorway to a D-shaped clochaun which stood within the enclosure [KE044-094001-]. This was removed by Hitchcock and presented to the Royal Irish Academy, along with a quernstone also found at the site. . . . A roughly rectangular, sandstone slab measuring .9m high, .27m wide and .1m thick. The inscription is carved along the 2 edges of one face and reads: MAQQI-DECEDDA MAQQI CATUV(........). The V is followed by 3 vowel notches but beyond this the stone is damaged and no definite scores are preserved. There is no consensus amongst earlier researchers as to the termination of the final word. Macalister (1945, 177-8) suggests that the name should be CATUVIQQA. A simple Greek cross is inscribed on each face of the stone.' The above information is derived from J. Cuppage, 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, no. 699. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 17 April 2015

• OF018-196 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location of the stone from Glenfahan, Co. Kerry (KE052-188003-) and forms part of the ogham stone collection of the National Museum of Ireland. The stone is described by Cuppage (1986, no. 568) as follows: ‘This slab measures 1.39m in height above the stand in which it is set, is .63m wide at base, and ranges between .02 and . 13m in thickness. Both broad faces and both sides are decorated. The following description is summarised from information provided by Beití Ó Tuama. The upper portion of one face bears a Maltese cross within a subcircular frame, with a short stem pendant from the frame. The cross is formed by 4 sunken panels which are separated from the intervening panels in false relief by narrow grooves, 1cm wide x 1.5cm deep. Beneath this design, on either side of the stem, is a saltire crosslet, that on the left being a plain linear cross, that on the right having slightly expanded terminals. Directly beneath the stem of the main cross is a tunic-clad human figure. A head, upstanding hair (or a halo?), 2 eyes, and a mouth are faintly visible. Even more faint is a diamond-decorated short tunic, from which stick-like arms and legs protrude. The arms appear to bend at the elbows towards the body, and the feet turn outwards in opposing directions. A spiral and chevron design runs down either side of the face from below the main cross to below the human figure where the designs are linked by a C-curve which runs across the width of the stone. The upper part of the opposite face bears a Greek cross with widely-expanded terminals; within the lower terminal is a very slightly raised triangle. Beneath the right terminal is a plain, equal-armed crosslet, and a plain linear crosslet also occurs between the left terminal of the main cross and the edge of the stone. Beneath the crosses, a triple, figure of eight knot spans the width of the stone. The single strand from which the design is formed swings upwards and downwards at opposite ends of the design, and then runs across the width of the stone framing the figure of eights above and below. Much of one side of the stone is decorated with an interlace design, now quite worn. The other side bears an unintelligible ogham inscription on a vertical stem-line. At top the stem-line terminates in a circle, and at base it terminates in an oval beneath which is a diamond motif. If read from bottom to top, the inscription reads LBMCBDV. Macalister (1945, 175-7) noted only the L before the M, and Rhys (1902, 378) read the 3 scores here as V.’ The above information is derived from J. Cuppage, 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, no. 568. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 17 April 2015

• OF018-197 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location of the stone from Tinnahally, Co. Kerry (KE057-105001-) and forms part of the ogham stone collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Macalister (1945, 249) records that 'Two stones were raised from the souterrain of a fort, the name of which is given as "Lisnareabh," on lands in the occupation of a man called Foley, innkeeper of Killorglin, who showed them to Windele. Windele acquired them and removed them to Cork; they are now in the Royal Irish Academy's collection.' This stone is in the National Museum of Ireland. There is a ringfort (KE057-006----) in the townland of Tinnahally named 'Lisnareabagh' on the OS 6-inch map and it contains a souterrain (KE057-006001-). It seems probable that the stones came from here. The stone is of clay-slate and measures 1.83m x 0.3m x 0.28m (6 feet x 1 foot by 11 inches). The inscription (up-down) reads: AANM VURUDDRANN MAQ[I] DOLIGENN (Macalister 1945, 249, no. 255). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 17 April 2015

• OF018-198 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location of the stone from Glenaphuca, Co. Cork (CO066-009----; NMI 2003:56) and forms part of the ogham stone collection of the National Museum of Ireland. This stone formerly acted as jamb of a cart-house door in a farmyard. The stone is a rough pink sandstone slab (H 5ft 8in; 2ft x 51/2in). When inspected by Macalister it was described as covered in whitewash; most of this has been removed. Part of inscription was buried when read by Macalister (1945, 82, no. 79) and Barry (1897, 43); its top is broken off. The inscription reads as follows: ELUNA MUC……RAN; the extra three letters run along the top. The first three strokes of the R are damaged but the A is clear and the first three strokes of the N are faint but legible. No other letters are discernible (pers. comm. Fionnbarr Moore, 17 April 2015). Macalister and O'Kelly (1944,9) imply that the ogham stone is from a souterrain (CO066-01002-) in Rathcanning fort (CO066-01001-) c. 450m to N. Barry, however, stated that slab had been in position at time of his visit for 80 years and had been taken from a souterrain 'in the next field' (CO066-00054---). (Power et al. 1994, 62, no. 4235) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 17 April 2015

• OF018-204 Tomb - effigial (present location)
  Description

  Currently in storage with the National Museum of Ireland (see find location KK019-026271-). One of five partial funerary monuments which were recovered from the River Nore at Kilkenny City, Kilkenny during the archaeological excavations (01E0036) carried out in 2001 as part of the River Nore Drainage Scheme (Brady 2004, unpublished). These were found associated with the late medieval bridge (KK019-026070-), immediately N of the current John’s Bridge, Kilkenny. Brady (ibid. 22) suggests that these monuments were deliberately defaced and dumped in the river by iconoclasts during the Reformation in the 1540s. The closest church is St Mary’s parish church, Kilkenny (KK019-026115-) c. 100m to the W, with St John’s Priory, Kilkenny (KK019-026068-) a little further, being c. 200m to the NE. Doyle and O’Meara (2004, 16-19) contend that the these monuments may have been seen as a convenient supply of stone, and were deliberately reused as part of the rubble needed to form a protective apron for the piers of the late medieval bridge. An effigial tomb (overall dims. L 2.27m; Wth 0.65m; T 0.11m), described by Brady (ibid. 45) as a, ‘Knightly sarcophagus lid of limestone in three pieces. Defaced raised decoration shows a figure in outline only, perhaps robed rather than in armour, resting on a pillow stone, and equipped with a sword. The tip of the scabbard remains intact, and in this detail the stonework is smooth. The long sides of the slab retain an ornate vine scrollwork that forms interlocking fleur de lys. A tendril wraps around the head end to suggest that originally the entire side edge was so decorated. The scrollwork is partly eroded on the left side but is intact on the right side. Date: mid-thirteenth century’. Brady (ibid. 22, 44) compares the elaborate decoration on the sides with that of the bishops’ effigies in Ferns (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 237-8 (catalogue no. 262); vol. 2, plate 65) and Kildare (ibid., vol. 1, 160-61 (catalogue no. 87); vol. 2, plate 69), as well as the tomb of Longespée, the Earl of Salisbury (c. 1230-40) in Salisbury Cathedral. Reference: Brady, N. 2004 Archaeological investigation and excavation John’s Bridge, Kilkenny: River Nore flood alleviation scheme. Excavation licence no. 01E0036. The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd. Unpublished final report. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2023

• OF018-205 Tomb - effigial (present location)
  Description

  Currently in storage with the National Museum of Ireland (see find location KK019-026272-). One of five partial funerary monuments which were recovered from the River Nore at Kilkenny City, Kilkenny during the archaeological excavations (01E0036) carried out in 2001 as part of the River Nore Drainage Scheme (Brady 2004, unpublished). These were found associated with the late medieval bridge (KK019-026070-), immediately N of the current John’s Bridge, Kilkenny. Brady (ibid. 22) suggests that these monuments were deliberately defaced and dumped in the river by iconoclasts during the Reformation in the 1540s. The closest church is St Mary’s parish church, Kilkenny (KK019-026115-) c. 100m to the W, with St John’s Priory, Kilkenny (KK019-026068-) a little further, being c. 200m to the NE. Doyle and O’Meara (2004, 16-19) contend that the these monuments may have been seen as a convenient supply of stone, and were deliberately reused as part of the rubble needed to form a protective apron for the piers of the late medieval bridge. An effigial tomb (overall dims. L 1.92m; Wth 0.49m; T 0.3m), described by Brady (ibid 45.) as a, ‘Knightly sarcophagus lid of limestone in two pieces, tapering slightly from shoulders to feet. The figure’s head is missing, but details of the shoulders and left side reveal a well executed smooth sculpture that describe a knight dressed in a cloth tunic and wearing a cloak. The remains of a sword scabbard survive at the lower left side. Details of the feet do not survive, as the slab has been repaired in antiquity and mismatching masonry inserted here. The upper surface of the figure is defaced. It is likely that his area would have been occupied with a shield that would have shown the heraldic arms. Date: fourteenth century’. Reference: Brady, N. 2004 Archaeological investigation and excavation John’s Bridge, Kilkenny: River Nore flood alleviation scheme. Excavation licence no. 01E0036. The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd. Unpublished final report. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2023

• OF018-206 Tomb - effigial (present location)
  Description

  Currently in storage with the National Museum of Ireland (see find location KK019-026273-). One of five partial funerary monuments which were recovered from the River Nore at Kilkenny City, Kilkenny during the archaeological excavations (01E0036) carried out in 2001 as part of the River Nore Drainage Scheme (Brady 2004, unpublished). These were found associated with the late medieval bridge (KK019-026070-), immediately N of the current John’s Bridge, Kilkenny. Brady (ibid. 22) suggests that these monuments were deliberately defaced and dumped in the river by iconoclasts during the Reformation in the 1540s. The closest church is St Mary’s parish church, Kilkenny (KK019-026115-) c. 100m to the W, with St John’s Priory, Kilkenny (KK019-026068-) a little further, being c. 200m to the NE. Doyle and O’Meara (2004, 16-19) contend that the these monuments may have been seen as a convenient supply of stone, and were deliberately reused as part of the rubble needed to form a protective apron for the piers of the late medieval bridge. Fragment of an effigial tomb (L 1.43m; Wth 0.83m; T 0.3m), described by Brady (ibid. 45) as a, ‘sculpted panel, possibly side-stone of sarcophagus tomb. Defaced outline of saint/angel framed beneath a gabled canopy. Octagonal column rises on left side with smaller (now headless) angel figure in upper left corner’. Other effigies carved within architectural canopies include that of a layman in Cashel, Co. Tipperary (TS061-025080-) (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5 (catalogue no. 234); vol. 2, plate 37) and a bishop at Ferns (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 237-8 (catalogue no. 262); vol. 2, plate 65). Reference: Brady, N. 2004 Archaeological investigation and excavation John’s Bridge, Kilkenny: River Nore flood alleviation scheme. Excavation licence no. 01E0036. The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd. Unpublished final report. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2023

• OF018-207 Tomb - effigial (present location)
  Description

  Currently in storage with the National Museum of Ireland (see find location KK019-026274-). One of five partial funerary monuments which were recovered from the River Nore at Kilkenny City, Kilkenny during the archaeological excavations (01E0036) carried out in 2001 as part of the River Nore Drainage Scheme (Brady 2004, unpublished). These were found associated with the late medieval bridge (KK019-026070-), immediately N of the current John’s Bridge, Kilkenny. Brady (ibid. 22) suggests that these monuments were deliberately defaced and dumped in the river by iconoclasts during the Reformation in the 1540s. The closest church is St Mary’s parish church, Kilkenny (KK019-026115-) c. 100m to the W, with St John’s Priory, Kilkenny (KK019-026068-) a little further, being c. 200m to the NE. Doyle and O’Meara (2004, 16-19) contend that the these monuments may have been seen as a convenient supply of stone, and were deliberately reused as part of the rubble needed to form a protective apron for the piers of the late medieval bridge. An effigial tomb (L 1.62m; Wth 0.58m; T 0.15m), described by Brady (ibid., 46) as an, ‘eroded and much fragmented tapered effigial slab in four large fragments and a fifth fragment that is shattered into six pieces. The head and foot portions do not survive. A rounded edge and groove runs along both long sides. The slab is tapered from head to foot. Further details, and whether it had an image on its surface do not survive’. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Reference: Brady, N. 2004 Archaeological investigation and excavation John’s Bridge, Kilkenny: River Nore flood alleviation scheme. Excavation licence no. 01E0036. The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd. Unpublished final report. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2023

Architectural heritage

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, barracks, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan multiple-bay two-storey former military barracks, built c.1800, used as reformatory school between 1870 and 1973. Formerly in use as a seminary. Now used to store National Museum of Ireland's Folk Life Collection. Set within its own grounds. Single-storey porches added to front c.1870. U-plan extension to rear with central corridor and courtyards, added in 1953. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Timber sash windows with block-and-start surrounds and tooled limestone sills. Round-headed central door opening with tooled stone surround abutted by bow-ended porch with ruled-and-lined rendered, string course and cornice, flat roof, Wyatt window, timber door and bootscraper. Square-headed door opening to front with block-and-start tooled limestone surround and threshold stone with replacement timber door and overlight.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, bakery, 1820–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former bakery, built c.1830, with extension to west and former forge abutting southern gable, built in 1875. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to slate roof with limestone coping to forge. Roughcast rendered walls to bakery and random coursed limestone walls to forge. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to bakery. Brick-arched window openings and tooled limestone door surrounds to forge. Segmental-arched carriage opening with date of 1875 incised in keystone. Large oven in bakery with tiled front and cast-iron opening and flap door. Buildings are set within the grounds of Saint Conleth's Reformatory school.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, laundry, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile multiple-bay two-storey over basement former laundry, built c.1850, with extensions to west. Now derelict. Set within complex of Saint Conleth's Reformatory School. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, terracotta ridge tiles, limestone coping and roof vents. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched corrugated-iron and lean-to roofs to extensions. Rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins. Round-headed window openings, now blocked. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Interior contains boiler, sinks and drying presses.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, abattoir, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey former industrial school ancillary building, built c.1870, abutting former slaughter and smoke house to north-east. Now derelict. Set within grounds of Saint Conleth's Reformatory School. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rendered walls with yellow brick exposed to gable ends with cut stone quoins. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Timber lintel above south door with yellow relieving arch. Pyramidal slate roof to smoke house with ridge tiles and a square-profiled air vent. Lime-washed walls with yellow brick exposed. Double timber doors.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, church/chapel, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former Roman Catholic chapel, built c.1870, with extension to north-west and abutted by rear extension of Saint Conleth's Reformatory School to south-east, built in 1953. Five-bay nave. Now used by National Museum of Ireland to store Folk Life Collection. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack to sacristy, bellcote with cross finial to south-east and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with window openings set within smooth rendered panels. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered reveals and tooled stone sills with stained glass windows with timber mullions. Modern double-height timber and metal door to south-west elevation and square-headed door opening to north-east elevation with timber door surmounted by timber battened panel and cross. Three-bay nave, two-bay chancel, balcony to south-east, sacristy to north-west. Timber parquet floors to chancel. Tudor vaulted corridor from school block leads to chapel entrance with Tudor arched door surround and timber door.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, prison/jail, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey former prison, built in 1801, now derelict. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with lime-wash. Chamfered corner to north-west. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and iron bars to openings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels and timber battened doors. Building surrounds courtyard and faces onto the complex's boundary wall to south.

• Saint Conleth's Reformatory, fortification, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Boundary wall of former Saint Conleth's Reformatory School, built c.1800. Squared limestone random coursed blocks to wall, with chamfered tooled stone coping. Circular-plan watch towers to south-west and north-east corners. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds. Tooled stone voussoirs to carriage arch at south-west corner with cast-iron gates. Ashlar gate piers to main entrance, metal gates and stone wheel guards.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2137 (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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