Knockhowlin

Area

479,193 m² (47.92 ha, 118.41 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,913 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

Knockhowlin

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 16 recorded monuments.

• WX047-060001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The parish church of Ishartmon is within a rectangular graveyard (max. dims 47m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined by earthen banks and hedges, with a gate at the SW corner to an E-W public road. The name of the parish is thought to derive from Diseart Munna – St. Munna’s church, according to John O’ Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 283-4; Dalton 1920 29). The church was described as decayed on the Down Survey (1655-6) terrier or commentary (Hore 1921, 91) and the parish may have been defunct by then as it does not feature in the Visitation of Bishop Ram in 1615 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 265-74). The church consists of a nave (ext. dims 10.2m E-W; 7.1m N-S) and chancel (ext. dims 6.2m E-W; 5.6m N-S) surviving complete, except the N nave wall. A narrow pointed doorway (Wth 0.82m; H 1.77m) of undressed stone in a lintelled embrasure (H 1.22m) is towards the W end of the S nave wall and a rectangular window (Wth 0.27m; H 0.68m) with glazing grooves towards E end has its embrasure partly blocked by the chancel arch wall. There is a double bellcote over the ivy-covered W gable, which has no other visible feature apart from putlog-holes. The chancel arch was originally rounded (Wth 1.34m; H 2.3m) but is now altered into a pointed doorway with brickwork. The external face of the nave walls oversail those of the chancel (int. dims 6.47m E-W; 4.2m N-S) by 1.2m permitting a larger chancel space while maintaining the rough proportions of 1:2 between the chancel and nave externally. The E window is blocked and obscured but there is a projecting slab on the N side internally, perhaps for a statue. There is a small pointed window towards the W end of both the N (Wth 0.2m; H 0.67m) and S (Wth 0.2m; H 0.69m) chancel walls, each with glazing grooves and in a lintelled embrasure. There is an aumbry niche blocked with spoil at the E end of the S chancel wall. There is a circular granite font (ext. diam. 0.64m; int. diam. 0.43m; ext. H 0.4m; D 0.18m) within the nave. The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 11 October, 2013

• WX047-060002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The parish church of Ishartmon (WX047-060001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (max. int. dims 47m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined by earthen banks and hedges, with a gate at the SW corner to an E-W public road. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 October, 2013

• WX047-060003 Font
  Description

  Inside the nave of the parish church of Ishartmon (WX047-060001-) there is a circular granite font (ext. diam. 0.64m; int. diam. 0.43m; ext. H 0.4m; D 0.18m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 October, 2013

• WX047-064 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6 inch map where it is described as a ‘Gallán’. It is situated in a low-lying landscape just on the S side of an E-W road but its precise location is not known. It has been removed but a photograph (St Peter's Annual 1917, 31) shows a large standing stone that is narrower at the base than c. 1m over the ground. Measurements taken in 1940 are ‘2 feet 6 inches by 3 feet at the base (dims 0.75m x 0.9m), 2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 6 inches (0.85m x 0.75m) at the top and 6 feet, 6 inches high (H c. 2m)’ OSFM). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137 Field system
  Description

  Located on a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. An area of c. 60 acres (c. 22 ha) has the cropmarks of numerous ditches visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and on digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). Most of the ditches are single features and many can be equated with field banks marked on the 1837 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, or run parallel with them. They create rectangular fields (dims c. 150m x c. 30-40m), and the fields relate directly to the cropmark of a N-S roadway that is marked on the 1839 ed. of the map and which still survives as a farm lane at its S end between Sigginstown and Walshestown. The fields are therefore probably 18th century in date, but amongst the fields there are five enclosures that do not relate to the fields and pre-date them. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying, slightly undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 30m x c. 25m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 0-5). The cropmark ditches of a field system that is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map are visible as single ditch features cutting through the site. Rath (WX047-137003-) is c. 130m to the NNE and enclosure (WX047-137002-) is c. 70m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October, 2013

• WX047-137002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and on digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). It is contemporary with rath (WX047-137003-) as its fosse is attached to the fosse of the rath at NE. No entrance is visible and it was probably a field utilising the slightly higher ground. Enclosure (WX047-137001-) is c. 70m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2013

• WX047-137003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 2-5, 27-32) and digital aerial photographs (WX047-137_1 to _4). There are gaps at E and NW. The enclosure (WX047-137002-) is attached to the SW and appears to be contemporary as the defining fosse of the enclosure is connected to the fosse of the rath at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October

• WX047-142001 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (263) 21-3; (265) 15-6; (267) 26-7). There is a ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) inside the perimeter at N. It is also visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000) where it is integrated with elements of a rectangular field system (WX024-142003-), and is also visible in images captured in July 2018 by a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 January, 2019

• WX047-142002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) is visible inside the perimeter of rectangular enclosure (WX047-142001-) at N on aerial photographs (ASIAP (263) 21-3; (265) 15-6; (267) 26-7). It is also visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000)and on images captured in July 2018 by a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works). . Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 October, 2013

And 6 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 moderately low, 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.