Carrownavohanaun

Area

21,545 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

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

Carrownavohanaun

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 3 recorded monuments.

• GA123-031 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On steeply rising ground on the W bank of the Gort River in gently undulating pastureland. This National Monument comprises a much-ruined 13th-century de Burgo castle and bawn (Harbison 1975, 96). Known alternatively as 'Ballinamantaine' castle (Leask 1973, 156), a name still preserved in an adjoining townland, it appears to be named 'Ballecastle' in the 1574 list of castles in Co. Galway when it was then in the possession of 'Mac Remon' (Nolan 1901, 114). The castle consists of an almost square three-storey high building (ext. dims. 11.7m N-S; 11.5m E-W) with a projecting angle at the SE corner. It is constructed of heavily mortared randomly coursed undressed limestone blocks. There is a pronounced base-batter and the base at the SE corner has been reinforced. Access is via a robbed-out doorway on the ground floor, at the N end of the W wall. It accesses a lobby, to the S of which there is a narrow passage (Wth 1.45m) running N-S. An arched entrance at the S end of wall of this passage accesses the main room (10m E-W; 5.25m N-S), the present layout of which dates to the late-medieval period when a wickerwork-centred vault supported by four pillars was inserted. The SE corner of the room is obscured due to the collapse of the roof and it was not possible to determine if its layout mirrored that of the external projecting wall-face. Two sets of straight intramural stairs ascend from the ground to the 1st floor: one from the SW corner and along the S wall, and the other from the NW corner, directly inside the doorway, along the N wall. The upper floors are very ruinous apart from traces of a stairwell, at 2nd-floor level at the W end of the N wall, and a number of robbed windows; otherwise few architectural features survive. An internal dividing wall, running N-S, on the 1st floor is a later insertion. There is a pointed arched doorway at the N end of this wall. The castle stands at SE corner of a large roughly rectangular bawn (GA123-031001-). (Grose 1791, 62; Killanin 1951, 121; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 621; CUCAP BDN 31) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 September 2016 The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 259.

• GA123-031001 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with the Anglo-Norman castle (GA123-031----) at its SE corner, this large roughly rectangular bawn (E-W c. 75m; N-S c. 60m) is defined by a stout wall (max. Wth 2.3m) which has a base-batter. Like the castle, it is constructed of heavily mortared randomly coursed undressed limestone blocks. Though reasonably well-preserved along the S and W sides, it has been heavily robbed and/or largely demolished elsewhere. A large pile of rubble at the SW corner may well mark the site of an angle tower (see Fahey 1906, 4). An ope in the external wall-face, immediately to the NE of the castle, that is surmounted by three sets of corbels may be the remains of a latrine or sallyport. Access to the interior is via a much-ruined gateway in the W wall. This originally comprised an arched entrance (Wth 2.7m) flanked by two massive D-shaped towers (11.8m E-W; 5.7m N-S) that were at least two storeys high. The walls of the towers are 2m wide and each one has a gun loop, set in a deep embrasure, that covered the bawn wall to the N and S. The S wall of the bawn kinks southwards roughly at its mid-point. This is mirrored internally by a drystone wall running from the S tower of the gateway to the NW corner of the castle, suggesting that it may have been built on the line of an earlier wall. The latter wall may have functioned as a defensive wall around the inner ward of the castle. Traces of another internal wall, running roughly NE-SW, are evident in the NW section of the bawn. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 September 2016

• GA123-031002 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_766 (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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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.