Land parcel 1748889

Area

336 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 161 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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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 11 recorded monuments.

• DU014-066 Settlement cluster
  Description

  This record was entered as 'Town' in the RMP (1998). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This is a natural spring enclosed within a railing and embellished with a monument to St Patrick, murals and a grotto. A stone-lined bath in the front may have been built in the 1760's when the well was developed as a spa (Daly 1957, 20; Ó Danachair 1958, 76). This was a station well according to the Ordnance Survey Name Books. The waters were thought to cure sore eyes and inveterate ulcers. Still venerated. Daly (1957, 20) recorded the following details about this well; 'Near Finglas village was another St. Patrick's well. A short time prior to 176o a stone arch was built over it, on account of cures which it had effected and for many years people visited there for the curing of sore eyes and inveterate ulcers. Patients applied rags dipped in the water to the affected part as well as drinking some of the water'. See attached photos (01/02) taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00184 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30816 and F024.06.00183 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16670. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 April 2023

• DU014-066003 House - 17th century
  Description

  Named on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (1837) as 'Cardiff castle in ruins'. The OS 6-inch map shows an L-shaped building N of the road. This area has since been developed. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066005 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  A manor established by Archbishop Comyn in 1181 appears to have been on the present site of the convent which on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (1843) is called Springmount, later known as Fortwilliam. In 1228 Archbishop Luke established an episcopal residence on the site. During the period that Alexander de Bicknor held the See of Dublin 1317-1319, this residence became known as the Court. It was a substantial mansion. There are references to stone walls, leaden gutters, iron bars, kitchen, brewhouse and furnaces (Ball 1920, 85). The Civil survey (1654-6) mentions a 'stone house' at Oldcourt on the church farm at Finglas (Simington 1945, 140). Excavations in 1992 failed to reveal any traces of the site (O'Flanagan 1993, 27). Further excavations in 1995 revealed the walls of a rectangular, two-roomed structure (L 20m, Wth 4.5m) associated with 16th-17th century material. This has been interpreted as an out-building associated with Fortwilliam (Halpin 1996, 24-25). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066008 Town defences
  Description

  The N section of 'King William's Rampart' forms a boundary wall to the present Vicarage garden and the S boundary of the car park. It runs in a NE-SW direction (L 80m, Wth 3.5-6m, H 1.5-3.5m). Both faces are revetted with stone walling. In the W end of the rampart is a vaulted chamber entered from a round-arched opening. The vault runs N-S (dims. L 3.7m, Wth 3.6m, H 2m. ). It is lit by slit opes. Between 1986 and 1994 excavations in the immediate vicinity of the site produced 13th-15th-century pottery and evidence for an E extension to the rampart (Cotter 1992, 16). This site may be interpreted as fortifications erected by the Duke of Ormonde in 1649 (Anon 1897, 452; Joyce 1912, 270-1). This S portion of 'King William's Rampart' lies S of Cappagh Road. A lane runs along the S face of the earthwork. It comprises a continuous section of flat-topped bank which takes a sharp bend (H 3m, Wth 3.2m, L 48m. ). The S face was formerly faced by a buttressed wall (Joyce 1902, 270). It is overgrown with ash and thorn. Traditionally associated with King William, who is said to have camped in Finglas after the Battle of the Boyne, 1690, (Anon 1897, 452). Investigations by OPW of the site uncovered 15th-century pottery which suggests that the ramparts may be the remains of a stockade built to protect the manorial estate founded by Archbishop Comyn in 1181. Test excavations in 1995 confirmed that the rampart continued along the N perimeter of the present site. Archaeological deposits with a date range of 14th-17th centuries were built up around it (Halpin 1995, 25). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066009 Church
  Description

  Situated at the edge of a plateau with a valley to the E. This is a medieval parish church on the site of an earlier monastery associated with St Canice. The later church is of nave and chancel type with a vaulted porch entrance (dims. L 12.8m, Wth 7.25m). Built of coursed limestone masonry. The W gable of nave is heavily buttressed and contains a round segmental arched window with a circular window above. On W side of nave is a round arched window, partly blocked and a later pointed window inserted. The chancel is narrower than the nave and entered through a pointed arched opening. There is a sandstone piscina along the S wall and pointed arched aumbrey close by. The chancel was originally lit by a double-light cusped, ogee-headed window (L 7.6m, Wth 5.6m. ). The S aisle is entered through wide round arches with pillars. There is a blocked pointed doorway in S wall of S aisle (dims. L 13.2m, Wth 3.15m; see Stubbs 1916, 27-45; Anon 1987, 451-4). In the SE corner of the chancel are two 17th century graveslabs, one commemorating Richard Treswell d. 1672 (DU014-066015-) the other to the Ryves family dates from 1647 (DU014-066016-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066010 Cross - High cross
  Description

  Since 1806 a high cross has stood inside the entrance to the graveyard on a square plinth with roll moulding. It originally stood N of the village at Watery Lane (Anon 1833, 84-5). It is a ringed granite cross (H 2.16m, Wth 1.55m, T 0.27m. ). The E face has two raised ribs forming the outer ring, with an outline of a cross in relief and a roundel in the centre (Harbison 1992, 90). Traces of decoration on the arms continue onto the shaft, the S side contains animal-like features under the arm and onto the shaft. The N side has extenuated S spirals and under the arm a diamond shape, the W face bears a cross and a ring in high relief . Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066012 Maypole
  Description

  The record for this monument has been assessed in relation to its proposed inclusion in the revised statutory Record of Monuments and Places. The evidence indicates that the monument has been totally removed (both above-and below-ground archaeology). In consequence, it will not be included in the revised RMP (Geraldine Stout, 07 September 2010). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066015 Graveslab
  Description

  In the SE corner of the chancel of the medieval parish church (DU014-066009-) are two 17th century graveslabs, one commemorating Richard Treswell d. 1672, the other to the Ryves family dates from 1647(DU014-066016-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU014-066016 Graveslab
  Description

  In the SE corner of the chancel are two 17th century graveslabs, one commemorating Richard Treswell d. 1672(DU014-066015-) and the other to the Ryves family dates from 1647. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

And 1 more.

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

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3177 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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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