Bordwell Big
Bordwell Big is a townland in the civil parish of Bordwell, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Bordaíol Mhór.
Parcel 246908
- Area
- 106,031 m² (10.6 ha, 26.2 acres)
- Buildings
- 9 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,354 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
- Bordwell Big
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.
- LA028-034001 Church
Description
An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 58). In the thirteenth century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford (ibid.). In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (Dowling 1981, 15). Situated in a low-lying area. An early medieval nave (ext. dims. 17.6m E-W, 8.6m N-S; wall T 0.85m) and chancel (ext. dims. c. 8.5m E-W, c. 6.1m N-S; wall T c. 0.85m) constructed of roughly coursed limestone with a pointed arch doorway in W end of S wall and a round arch doorway opposite in N wall of chancel. Remains of single-light window in N and S wall of nave located off centre to E. Drawbar slot in E jamb of doorway located off centre to W in S wall. Evidence of four joist holes (dims. 0.3m x 0.3m) at the W end of the N and S walls which supported a floor or gallery at the W end of the nave. This floor level may be the remains of a two storey priest residence at the W end of the nave. Only the wall footings of the chancel survive, and are covered with collpased rubble which is piled all over the collpased walls of the chancel. The chancel arch dividing wall has collpased and there is a large eighteenth century table-top tomb inside the church at this location. All visible headstones postdate 1700. A short stretch of a bank and fosse at W, and a shallow fosse (Wth c. 10m, D c. 0.3m) from NW-NE, outside the graveyard (LA028-034002-) wall, indicate the line of an early enclosure (LA028-034003-) around the site. A recent graveyard clean up scheme has resulted in the stripping of ivy off the church and possibly the collapse of the walls of the chancel. All rubble stone from the chancel walls and any stone from the enclosing graveyard have been stockpiled inside the nave and chancel church. The interior surface of the church is covered with this rubble limestone which is strewn all over the church interior. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. Monitoring of topsoil removal was carried out at the site of a proposed dwelling on 2 May 2000. The site (c. 1.3 acres) is located 150m east of an ecclesiastical site comprising a church, a graveyard and a portion of an ecclesiastical enclosure. The dark brown, silty clay topsoil, 0.25m thick, overlay dark yellowish-brown, sandy clay subsoil. Finds from the topsoil comprised four post-medieval and four modern pottery sherds. No archaeological features or deposits were discovered. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA028-034002 Graveyard
Description
In a low lying area. An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, 58). In the 13th century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St. Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford. In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (LA028-034001-) (Dowling 1981, 15). All visible headstones post date 1700 AD. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 29m N-S; 67m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with church in N quadrant. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA028-034003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Not marked on the 1839 or 1908 eds OS 6-inch maps. An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, 58). In the thirteenth century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St. Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford. In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (LA028-034001-) (Dowling 1981, 15). In a low lying area. A short stretch of a bank and fosse at W, and a shallow fosse (Wth c. 10m, D c. 0.3m) from NW-NE, outside the graveyard (LA028-034002-) wall, indicate the line of an early enclosure (LA028-034003-) around the site. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1944 (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.
- Area
- 73 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 42,399 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bordwell Big, from 924 m² to 106,031 m² (10.6 ha, 26.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bordwell Big 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
1 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dairy and parlour; a roofed handling facility and an unroofed collecting yard with underground slatted tank; an extension to the existing silage pit and all ancillary facilities, works and services and retention permission for development which consists of an animal house with underground slatted tanks and an unroofed cubicle yard with feed aprons and underground slatted tank and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services.
Retention · Laois County Council, 21198
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bordwell Big.
Recorded monuments
- LA028-034001 Church
Description
An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 58). In the thirteenth century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford (ibid.). In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (Dowling 1981, 15). Situated in a low-lying area. An early medieval nave (ext. dims. 17.6m E-W, 8.6m N-S; wall T 0.85m) and chancel (ext. dims. c. 8.5m E-W, c. 6.1m N-S; wall T c. 0.85m) constructed of roughly coursed limestone with a pointed arch doorway in W end of S wall and a round arch doorway opposite in N wall of chancel. Remains of single-light window in N and S wall of nave located off centre to E. Drawbar slot in E jamb of doorway located off centre to W in S wall. Evidence of four joist holes (dims. 0.3m x 0.3m) at the W end of the N and S walls which supported a floor or gallery at the W end of the nave. This floor level may be the remains of a two storey priest residence at the W end of the nave. Only the wall footings of the chancel survive, and are covered with collpased rubble which is piled all over the collpased walls of the chancel. The chancel arch dividing wall has collpased and there is a large eighteenth century table-top tomb inside the church at this location. All visible headstones postdate 1700. A short stretch of a bank and fosse at W, and a shallow fosse (Wth c. 10m, D c. 0.3m) from NW-NE, outside the graveyard (LA028-034002-) wall, indicate the line of an early enclosure (LA028-034003-) around the site. A recent graveyard clean up scheme has resulted in the stripping of ivy off the church and possibly the collapse of the walls of the chancel. All rubble stone from the chancel walls and any stone from the enclosing graveyard have been stockpiled inside the nave and chancel church. The interior surface of the church is covered with this rubble limestone which is strewn all over the church interior. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. Monitoring of topsoil removal was carried out at the site of a proposed dwelling on 2 May 2000. The site (c. 1.3 acres) is located 150m east of an ecclesiastical site comprising a church, a graveyard and a portion of an ecclesiastical enclosure. The dark brown, silty clay topsoil, 0.25m thick, overlay dark yellowish-brown, sandy clay subsoil. Finds from the topsoil comprised four post-medieval and four modern pottery sherds. No archaeological features or deposits were discovered. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA028-034002 Graveyard
Description
In a low lying area. An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, 58). In the 13th century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St. Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford. In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (LA028-034001-) (Dowling 1981, 15). All visible headstones post date 1700 AD. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 29m N-S; 67m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with church in N quadrant. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA028-034003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Not marked on the 1839 or 1908 eds OS 6-inch maps. An Early Christian foundation was established here (Carrigan 1905, 58). In the thirteenth century the church was granted to the Augustinians of St. Thomas's Abbey, Dublin by Thomas de Hereford. In 1345 the Irish of the Slieve Bloom burned the church (LA028-034001-) (Dowling 1981, 15). In a low lying area. A short stretch of a bank and fosse at W, and a shallow fosse (Wth c. 10m, D c. 0.3m) from NW-NE, outside the graveyard (LA028-034002-) wall, indicate the line of an early enclosure (LA028-034003-) around the site. Area around church and graveyard and ecclesiastical enclosure was investigated by Dominic Delaney in the year 2000 under excavation licence no. 00E0159. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bordwell Big.
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 Bordwell Big, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1944 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bordwell Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Bordwell Big · Bordaíol Mhór
- Area
- 730,332 m² (73.03 ha, 180.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bordwell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Electoral division
- Grantstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 388 people lived in 137 households in the Grantstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bordwell Little, Coolfin, Court, Grantstown, Kilbreedy, Rahandrick Upper
- Placenames
- Bordwell Big 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.