Boskill

Area

1,113 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 186 m².

Zoning

R2 Existing Residential (Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029) The objective

Townland

Boskill

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 10 recorded monuments.

• LI014-079001 Historic town
  Description

  The historic town of Caherconlish was described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Caherconlish is located in east Limerick just off the Limerick to Clonmel road. The placename suggests that there was a pre-Norman settlement here but there is no actual documentary evidence for its existence. It is not until the coming of the Anglo-Normans that the settlement is first mentioned. It formed part of the lands of Owney which were granted to Theobald Walter, ancestor of the Butler family. It is fortunate, perhaps, that it was to the Butlers that Caherconlish belonged because as a result an informative extent of the manor, prepared in the year 1300, survives (White 1932, 154-8). This extent makes it clear that Caherconlish was a borough settlement at the heart of a manor on which free tenants, cotters and betaghs also lived. Unfortunately the extent provides no knowledge of the size of the settlement or its appearance but it is clear from a grant of murage in 1358 that Caherconlish was defended, probably by earthen ramparts (Ir Rec Comm 1829, 61). The settlement was exposed to attacks by the native Irish, particularly the O'Briens and the "Wars of Turlough" recount the capture and burning of the castle in the 1280s. The borough appears to have declined in the later middle ages and it seems to have been already deserted at the time of Dinely's visit in the 1680s. The medieval borough was probably centred on the present village which has an L-shaped pattern bounded by a small stream on the west called the Groodie. There are no pre-1700 houses in the town. There are records of four Castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the OS.map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S.map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a college (Lewis 1837, i, 239). The settlement recieved a murage grant in 1358 granting the "provost, bailliff and commonalty of the town of Catherkenlyshe" the right to collect murage for twenty years (Ir Rec Comm 1829, 61). A gatehouse is said to have survived until the early part of the 19th century (Westropp 1906-7, 93) but no trace of it survives today. The medieval defences probably consisted of earthen ramparts but their course remains unknown. Reports of stone axeheads, pottery, house foundations are said to have been found in College. Field to the west of the settlement (Lynch 1896, 357)." (Bradley et. al 1989, 88-93) Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079002 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Irregular-shaped earthwork annotated as 'Caherconlish Castle (site of)' on current ed. OS 6-inch map described in the Urban Archaeological Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, Vol. 1, 92-3) as follows: "Ringfort: An irregular shaped platform, 18m north-south by 35m east-west and up to c. 4m above surrounding ground level, is located on rising ground to the west of the village. There are good views to the north and west but restricted to the south and east. The platform is built on limestone outcrop which rises abruptly to the north, west and south-west but more gradually to the east and south-east. The feature appears to be partly natural but could have been adapted as a platform-type earthwork; there are no features on the summit." Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079003 Graveyard
  Description

  On S side of Caherconlish village with castle site (LI014-079004-) in field to SSW. Ruins of Caherconlish nave and chancel parish church (LI014-079005-) in centre. Polygonal shaped area (approx. dims. 55m N-S x 70m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at S end of E wall. Numerous architectural fragments from medieval church reused as grave markers, including several stone corbels. A drawing of the graveyard in 1681 by Thomas Dineley shows that the nave and chancel church formed the N boundary of a burial ground that was enclosed by a curving stone wall with entrance gate at SE (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 November 2018

• LI014-079004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Caherconlish Castle depicted as a roofed tower house type structure standing to the SW of the church and graveyard in 1681 by Thomas Dineley (NLI, MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). In this drawing the castle is depicted as a small multi-storey tower with round-headed entrance in E wall of castle. The external entrance to the castle was protected by a projecting box-machicolation accessed at wall-walk level. Possible angle-machicolation at second floor level on the SE angle. Site of Caherconlish Castle described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 89) as following; "There are records of four castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the O.S. map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S. map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House to the south-west of the village (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a "college" (Lewis 1837, i, 239)." Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079005 Church
  Description

  Multi-period fortified nave and chancel parish church of Caherconlish that was drawn in 1681 by Thomas Dineley which shows that the roofed nave was entered through a round-headed doorway located at W end of nave that is now blocked up. A single light slit ope possibly of cruciform shape is visible at W end of S wall of nave with triple light flat-headed window of 17th century appearance at E end of S wall of nave. The unroofed chancel walls were topped with stepped battlements and was entered through a flat-headed doorway with hood-moulding, probably dating from the late 16th/ early 17th century. A double bellcote rising from the apex of the chancel arch is visible above the roof line of the nave. Remains of an angle buttress are visible on the SE angle of the chancel. The church formed the N boundary of a burial ground that was enclosed by a circular-shaped stone wall with entrance gate at SE (NLI, MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). Caherconlish Castle which is depicted as a tower house type structure stood outside the burial ground to the SW. Caherconlish C of I church ruins built in 1780 incorporating the W end of the medieval church ruins described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "This small medieval nave and chancel church, built of uncoursed rubble limestone, is unroofed, covered in ivy and in poor condition. It was altered in the nineteenth century when the nave walls were thickened, an east wall inserted to the west of the chancel arch and a west tower added. The chancel is now very ruined but it had a battered east wall and long and short quoins on the south east angle (some sandstone) and there is one splay of a window on the south wall. The centre of the chancel is filled with mortuary crypts. The chancel arch was originally pointed but when the church was shortened a smaller round arch, probably now functioning as the window of the nineteenth century church, was inserted. The nave was lit from the south by three windows but all are lacking jambs and tracery. There is an opening in the north wall and a doorway and flat lintelled mural stairs in the west end of the wall which may have led to an earlier tower. The west wall is nineteenth century." (Bradley et. al. 1989, 90-1). Caherconlish described by Westropp (1904-5, 440) as following; 'It was once a walled town, with four castles, and the ruins of a "college." A fortified gate stood till not long before 1826 (Fitzgerald, i., 285). Carkynlys, 1259 (Plea R.); Cathairconlish, 1285-7 (Wars of Torlough), when its castle was stormed and burned by Torlough O'Brien, king of Thomond. He "faced for rampart-guarded solid stone Cathair cind lioss." Inquisitions about persons killed in this raid are numerous. They are usually described as "slain at Karkynlys by Terdeluach Obreen, and other felons." The harbouring of the Irish by de Burgo, of Castle Connell, and the abbot of Wetheney, and the plundering of "Karkenlys Church," are fully recorded (Plea R., vol. ii., p. 126, xviii Ed. I., m. 31 ; in 40, p. 135, &c, &c). Records are numerous. Karkynglissi, in Wethney, 1302. Murage to provost and bailiffs of "Catherkenlysche, as lying on the marches, with the Irish rebels on every side" (Close R.). King Edward's charter is preserved, Nov. 9, 1358; Carkynlis deanery, 1615. The rectories of Carkynlishe, Killyvorly, Eathiordan, and Cayrelly, granted to Walter Ap. Howell,1552 (Fiants, 1020). The parishes of Caherconlish, Luddenbeg, and Willestown United, 1791 (L.M.H.). Fabric - T. Dyneley gives a sketch in 1680. It shows a ruined wing, with five-stepped battlements. The rest had a cross-shaped light and pointed door, and a triple window of oblong lights. In 1840 a fragment of the east end, 12 feet [3.65m] high and 7 feet [2.1m] long, stood, supported by a vault. The I. C. church covered the rest of the site. Monuments - Gabbett and Bourke. Theo. Bourke and his wife, Slaney Brien, "1441" (recte, 1641); mentioned also by Dyneley; and Annabel Gould, and the relatives of John Maunsell, 1662 (see Fitzgerald, i., p. 285). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Levelled building annotated on six-inch map as 'Chimney Site of' may have been one of the four castles located the medieval town of Caherconlish. Described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 89) as following; "There are records of four castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the O.S. map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S. map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House to the south-west of the village (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a "college" (Lewis 1837, i, 239)." Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079007 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Building annotated as 'Tower' on 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been one of the four castles located in the medieval town of Caherconlish. Described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 89) as following; "There are records of four castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the O.S. map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S. map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House to the south-west of the village (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a "college" (Lewis 1837, i, 239)." Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079009 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  Broken ledger of a 17th century tomb belonging to Alphra Maunsell who lived at Ballyvorneen which is now in two pieces to the N and S of the medieval nave and chancel church of Caherconlish. Remains of a 17th century tomb described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Mansell slab. 1662. Rectangular sandstone slab (dims. 1.17m x 0.44m x 0.17m) in two pieces on the north side of the graveyard near the Gabbot vault. It is decorated in false relief with a Roman lettered inscription: here lieth the body of APHRA MANSELL MY DEAR MOTHEr daughter of sr will/LIAM CRAFFORD OF KENT HERE ALso lieth/ my deaRE WIFE MARY MANSELL DAVGHter of george booth/ ESQR OF CHESSHIRE AND OF MY SISTER APHRa pecock and her/ daVGHTER ANNE PECOCK ERRECTED BY ME john mansell esquire/ AND INTENDED FOR MYSELF AND/ the rest of my famiLY THIS 12 OF OCTOBER 1662" (Bradley et. al. 1989, 91; Mems Dead vi (1904-6), 114; Westropp 1904-5, 440). This monument was described in 1681 by Thomas Dineley as an altar-tomb and not a graveslab which was located inside the chancel of the church. The inscription on top of the ledger of the altar-tomb read as following; 'HERE LIETH THE BODY OF APHRA MANSEL MY DEAR MOTHER DAVGHTER OF S R WILLM CRAYFORD KT HERE ALSO LIETH MY DEAR WIFE MARY MANSEL DAVGHTER OF GEORGE BOOTH OF CHESHIRE ESQVIRE AND OF MY SISTER APHRA PEACOCK AND HER DAVGHTER ANNE PEACOCK ERECTED BY ME JOHN MANSEL ESQVIRE AND INTENDED FOR MYSELF AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY THIS XII OCTOBER MDCLXII' (Mems. Dead 1904-06, 114; Shirley 1858-67, 198). The lid of this tomb is now broken into two pieces one of which lies immediately S at the E end the nave of the medieval church ruins (LI014-079005-) of Caherconlish where it is visible as a low upright stone with partial inscription 'HERE LYETH THE DAUGHTER OF ...SOL YETH. MY SIST ER OF C PECOCK AND OF JOHN MANSELL THE REST OF M. The second fragment lies to the N of the church ruins at the W end behind the metal link fence that has been erected around the church ruins (pers. comm. Patrick Hourigan). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Patrick Hourigan Date of revised upload: 02 July 2018

• LI014-079010 Wall monument
  Description

  17th century wall monument of Theobald Bourke and his wife Slaney Brien located against the E face of the chancel arch in the SE corner of the the chancel of the medieval church ruins (LI014-079005-) of Caherconlish. Described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Limestone wall memorial (dims. 1.35m x 1.46m) in two sections; the lower one consists of a panel flanked by pilasters with architectural designs in false relief and is inscribed in Roman lettering: hVNC TVMVLVM THEObALdS.BoVRK SIbI Et vXORIS sVae / slaNi BRiEN fIeRe FF.CIT../BOVRKIAna SOBOLES caROl sang/ VINE TINCTA ATQVE BRYANNORum/ HIC THEOBALDI lACES TECVM PERlre( ISSIM. FIRMA FIDE MARTIS GLORIA PACls/ IONOS MACTE TAMEN NON TOTVS ABIS TVa FAMA SVPERSTES MAT S/ ET TENVMEROS APHALANX SPIRITVS AD SVPERAS VOL.../ RTHEVS ORA SVRNAE SITO I N ERK OM PIACITVRA TVO ANNO DOM The upper sub-rectangular panel has a crucifixion flanked by depictions of the virgin and John and the symbols of the passion are incised beside Christ' (Bradley et. al. 1989, 91-2; Lenihan 1866, 727; Mems Dead vi (1904-6), 114; Westropp 1904-5, 440). This monument was described in 1681 by Thomas Dineley as a mural monument on the south side of the chancel of the church. The inscription on the mural monument read ; 'HVNC TVMVLVM THEOBALDVS BOVRK SIBI ET VXORI SVI SLANIE BRIEN FIERI FECIT BVRKIARVM SOBOLES CAROLINO SANGINE TINCTE ATQVE BRIANORVM NOBILITATA TRIBV HIC THEOBALDE IACES TECVM' (Mems. Dead 1904-06, 114). Thomas Dineley drew a sketch of this memorial on which he wrote the following about the location of the monument; 'On the right hand going up to the Altar place of ye Chancel of Carigkenlish [Caherconlish] is seen this monument against the wall' (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67). The sketch shows the wall memorial as consisting of three parts with an inscribed panel flanked on either end by urns or vases standing on top of a box like tomb structure. Above the inscribed panel are three round-arched niches with crucified Christ in the central panel with INRI above and skull & crossbones below with ladder on left hand side. To the left there was carved figure of Mary with the words 'Sancta Maria' carved into the arch above the figure. To the right of Christ there is a figure of St. John with the words ST Johannes' carved into the arch above. Above these three figures rise decorative columns/balustrade, the central column is inscribed with the letters I H S. All three columns are topped with a ball finial (Shirley 1858-67, 198). See attached photo of wall memorial courtesy of Patrick Hourigan Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 02 July 2019

• LI014-079012 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  Chest-tomb dating from 1672 which marked the burial place of Mary Annabel Gould, daughter of James Gould of Ludden Castle and wife of Sir George Ingoldsby of Ballybricken Castle located on N side of chancel inside the medieval ruins of Caherconlish Church (LI014-079005-). Dineley drew a sketch of this tomb on which he wrote the following about the location of the monument; 'On ye left hand side going to the Alter is seen this upon Sr. George Ingoldesby’s wives mother' (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197-8). The sketch shows the monument as a chest-tomb with A-shaped lid on top of which was carved the following inscription; 'RIS TH M. ANNABEL GOULD DIED XXVII MAY MDCLXXII'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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Ground and risks

Radon

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Landslides

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