Meelick
Meelick is a townland in the civil parish of Meelick, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Míleac.
Parcel 2040013
- Area
- 20,607 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 454 m².
- 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
- Meelick
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Aug 2017Conditional
to install a new heating system, air extract fan and remove the existing air handling heating unit to Meelick Church. Meelick Church is a protected structure 343 in the record of Protected Structures
Permission · Galway County Council, 171254
20 Jun 2017N/a
to install a new heating system, air extract fan and remove the existing air handling heating unit to Meelick Church.
Permission · Galway County Council, 17906
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
- Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 29 recorded monuments.
- GA108-124001 Religious house - Franciscan friars
Description
On a low hill overlooking the River Shannon to the E, on or close to the site of the medieval borough of Meelick (GA108-234----). This Franciscan friary was certainly in existence c. 1414 and was probably founded by Braswell(?) O'Madden. In 1445 Pope Eugenius IV granted an indulgence for its repair. Though it was ruinous after the Dissolution, it was reoccupied and repaired a number of times in the late 16th and 17th centuries (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 254-5). The Jacobite soldier, John Stevens, visited Meelick en route to Athlone in June 1691. He records in his journal that ‘Here is also the residence of a few Franciscan friars only remarkable for the poverty of their house and chapel which are nothing but long thatched cabins. The walls of a handsome chapel designed by these friars are standing, but never roofed or further finished than the raising of them to their full height.’ (Murray 1912, 202). The surviving monument consists of a restored rectangular church (35m E-W; 7.5m N-S), which is still in use. The original doorway, in the W gable, is surmounted by a 17th-century round-headed window of three lights. The whole E gable has been rebuilt since the time of the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 55-7). A blocked arch at the E end of the S side-wall led to a transept (L c. 7m; W 4.5m), which is now reduced to its foundations. A pair of blocked arches about mid-point along the S wall may also have led to a transept or a short S aisle. A carved figure of St Francis was subsequently inserted between the arches (Harbison 1975, 97). Dr Christy Cunniffe (field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/churches/effigy-st-francis, last accessed 7 January 2019) suggests that it came from either a decorated tomb or from the cloister arcade. A 17th-century doorway in the N side-wall gave access to the cloister area. The lintel bears a much spalled inscription the only parts of which may be deciphered as follows: ‘Inceperunt fratres minor/e[s] . . . are monas[teriu]m / D . . . Ano Dn 16 –.’ The spalling appears to have resulted from fire. As the lettering corresponds with others on the various wall plaques and memorials of later 17th century date this inscription may commemorate a rebuilding by the friars at this period. The cloister area to the north is flanked on its E side by a ruined building (N-S; L 13m; Wth 3,2m) marked 'Convent Chapel' (GA108-124005-) on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A second two-storey ruin (L 12m; Wth 7.5m), probably on the site of the west range, is named 'Friars Ho.' (GA108-124008-) on the same map. It is possible that these are the buildings referred to in Stevens’s journal above. There are a number of 17th- and 18th-century graveslabs and plaques (see GA108-124006-, GA108-124007- and GA108-124010- to GA108-124027-) in the church and its graveyard, which lies to S and E. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 7 January 2019
- GA108-124002 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
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.
- GA108-124003 Earthwork
Description
Some 20m to the W of an enclosure (GA109-021). This low grassed-over subcircular mound (32 N-S; 27m E-W; H c. 1m) is surrounded from SW through N to SE by slight traces of a fosse (Wth 4-5m) which is overgrown with thistles and marshy underfoot. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 December 2019
- GA108-124005 Chapel
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.
- GA108-124006 Graveslab
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.
- GA108-124007 Graveyard
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.
- GA108-124008 House - indeterminate date
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.
- GA108-124010 Graveslab
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.
- GA108-124011 Graveslab
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.
- GA108-124012 Graveslab
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.
And 19 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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
- Area
- 169 ha
- 418 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 13,149 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meelick, from 8 m² to 230,495 m² (23.05 ha, 56.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Meelick in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Mar 2021Conditional
for installation of a Wastewater Treatment System with percolation area and all associated works. The proposed Wastewater Treatment System with percolation area is with the curtilage of a protected structure under RPS Reg No. 1016.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21450
29 Oct 2020Conditional
for the following development: (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic garage (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 283.00 sqm (House), 38.50 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201596
28 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct (1) Milking parlour incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard, office storage rooms, meal bin, outside milk tank and plant rooms. (ii) Construction of cubicle within existing loose shed (iii) slatted tanks as feeding area and top less cubicles and all assorted site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 432sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171702
18 Aug 2017Conditional
to install a new heating system, air extract fan and remove the existing air handling heating unit to Meelick Church. Meelick Church is a protected structure 343 in the record of Protected Structures
Permission · Galway County Council, 171254
20 Jun 2017N/a
to install a new heating system, air extract fan and remove the existing air handling heating unit to Meelick Church.
Permission · Galway County Council, 17906
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
- Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
Recorded monuments
- GA108-181 Church
Description
On a SW-facing slope in undulating grassland. This very poorly preserved medieval church (12.8m E-W; 7.3m N-S; wall T 0.8m) is constructed of fairly regularly coursed and mortared limestone. It was described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 2, 54-8) as a ruined old church - the N and E walls of which were 'perfectly level with the ground'; the W end of the S wall survived to its original height and the remaining section of the W gable survived to the height of the S side-wall. The only architctural features noted were a pointed doorway in the S wall and the remains of a broken window at the top of the W gable. All that now survives is a short isolated section of the S wall (L 3.3m; H 2.5m), the N end of the W gable (L 5.1m; H 1.5m) and the W end of the N wall (L 3.4m). Grassed-over foundations indicate the line of the E gable as well as the E end of the S wall. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2020 The following image has been uploaded: GA108-181----_02.jpg
- GA108-182 Quarry
Description
In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 August 2014
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Lintel incorporates possible medieval reused oak beam. Interior has exposed scraw roof, and wattle and daub chimney canopy. Open-sided single-bay single-storey turf shed to east gable with pitched slate roof.
- House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey house, built c.1780, comprising two blocks, two-bay to north-west having timber shopfront with lower two-storey return to rear (south-west) elevation, and with slightly lower three-bay block to south-east. Formerly in use as post office, now also in use as shop. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, having timber casement windows to first floor of south-east block, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to all other front elevation openings, all with painted reveals and sills. Square-headed replacement timber door to lower block. Shopfront comprises timber pilasters flanking timber panelled door and plate-glass display window, with moulded cornice, door having geometrically glazed overlight. Entrance to yard to south-east comprises wrought-iron double-leaf gate with rubble stone piers. Rendered boundary wall to north-west.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Meelick, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meelick.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Meelick, Eyrecourt7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Meelick · Míleac
- Area
- 1,690,033 m² (169 ha, 417.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Meelick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Meelick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Callow Beg, Camus, Fearmore, Friarsland, Glennavaddoge, Keeloge, Kilmachugh, Lismafadda, Millpark, Moyower
- Placenames
- Meelick 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.