Rutland

Area

691,927 m² (69.19 ha, 170.98 acres)

Buildings

10 buildings touch it, 2,436 m² on the ground

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

Rutland

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 1 recorded monument.

• OF042-034 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Kilcomin [Ceall Chuimín/Cill Chuimín/church of Cuimín] named after Cuimín Fada [long] a seventh century saint who was born in the territory of Caoille Conaill, located between Rathfran bay and Lacken Bay, in the barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo where his family operated a school (Ó Riain 2011, 245). The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838 identified Kilcommon old churchyard with ‘Disert Chuimin’ which was located close to the borders of Leinster and Munster (Herity 2008, 182). Situated in flat pasture with good views in all directions. Roughly circular shaped boulder that was originally located in stand of coniferous treees that were cut down a couple of years ago and the bullaun stone that is locally known as St Cuimin's Stone was relocated to the corner of the field. Originally the stone was located at Nat. Grid Ref. 206043/189807 and was then moved to its current location 20m to the west in the corner of the same field. Large circular boulder (diam. 1.2m; H 0.4m) with three hollow depressions on its surface the deepest hollow measures 0.4m diam by 0.14m deep, the second depression is located on the edge of the stone and measures 0.42m diam. by 0.1m deep, the third and shallowest depression measures 0.25m diam. by 0.1m deep. This stone is associated with St Cuimin of the nearby monastery of Kilcomin (OF041-004002-). Local people used to visit the bullaun stone and leave behind votive offerings to St Cuimín in the hollow depressions and was especially known for its cure of headaches (pers. comm. Henry Bevans), none of these offerings survive today. Bullaun stone associated with the monastery of Kilcomin (OF041-004005-) and described in the nineteenth century as 'In a rock, near Rutland, in the neighbourhood near Kilcommon, are some marks like impressions from human knees and arms. These, at least some years ago, were held in high veneration as being the marks of St. Cuimin's devotional prostrations - the devout saint having by continual prayer, worn traces in the solid limestone' (Cooke 1875, 211). Same site as OF041-004005-. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2014

Architectural heritage

• Rutland House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1780, with flat-roofed Doric portico, triple-pile return, two-storey stairs return, single-storey extension and single-storey porch to rear. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to roofs to rear porch and stairs return. Pitched tiled roof to rear extension. Smooth rendered walls with moulded string courses and sandstone quoins to façade. Pebbledashed walls to single-storey extension. Tripartite timber sash windows to ground floor with stone mullions, panelled aprons and window-heads to ground floor of façade with timber sash windows having tooled stone surrounds and sills to upper floor. Timber sash and replacement uPVC windows to side and rear elevations, and to extension. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation with timber sash window with patterned glass and stained glass margin lights to rear stairs return. Square-headed door opening within portico having moulded surround and replacement uPVC door. Timber doors to side elevation and rear porch. Single- and two-storey stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to yards having carriage arches, windows and door openings. Walled garden with random coursed stone and yellow brick wall, accessed through segmental-arched yellow brick opening with wrought-iron gate. Tooled ashlar limestone gate piers to road with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.

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.