Scriboge

Area

15,597 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 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

Scriboge

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 2 recorded monuments.

• TN009-068 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated atop low rock outcrop in wet partially reclaimed pasture with stream immediately to W of site. Area of rock outcrop with some low orthostats protruding above the surface of the ground forming a small circular area or cairn (approx. diam. 6m; H 0.6m) with a single oak tree rising from the centre of the monument which has a cross carved into the bark to commemorate the childrens burial ground. Embedded into the base of this tree there is a small granite bullaun stone (TN009-068001-) with quartz inclusions and is very similar to the bullaun stones that originally came from the townland of Carrigagown North (TN009-065-----). It is possible that this is the site of an earlier monument possibly some form of church site from which the bullaun stone originated and was later re-used as a children's burial ground in the 19th and 20th centuries. Known locally as 'The Fairy Rath of Mota' which might suggest that this was a cashel or stone fort reused as a children's burial ground. In 1937 Moira Carroll of Brookfield, and a pupil in Killadangan National School collected the following story about this monument; ‘The fairy rath of Mota is situated in the townsland of Mota, near the public road, one and a half miles from the village of Coolbawn. There is a beautiful stream running beside the rath and also some large white-thorn trees. There is a hollowed stone in the rath, which is supposed to be used as a holy water font, as it is believed that Mass was said there in the Penal days. One day there was a man named Paddy the Nailer passing by the Rath and he heard beautiful music but the tune had a straight air, and the mane knew the tune and he whistled it in such a beautiful manner that the Kind of fairies sent out to know who he was. They told him that it was a little man with a hump on his back. The King told the fairies to take the hump off his back and make him straight. This man told the story to the rest of the people. When a man named Mick Kane heard this, he said he should go and whistle the tune too, as he had a hump on his back also, so he set off and when he reached the Rath the fairies were singing. He thought the hump would be taken of his back if he whistled the tune, as he was a very bad whistler, he spoiled the beautiful tune. The King sent out word to know who spoiled their nice tune, the fairies told him that it was a big man with a hump on his back. The King ordered them to take the hump they took off Paddy the Nailer and put it on Mick Keane's back with the other hump. The old people of this district ascertain this story to be true as their parents knew Mick Keane with the two humps on his back’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Pages 521-3). Margaret Starr of Lisquillibeen, collected the following story about the ‘Fairy Fort’ at Mota; ‘The fort in Mota is called a "fairy fort". This one is also circular in shape & is surrounded by a high wall. There is an arch in the wall as an entrance. The people living in the vicinity say this rath is inhabited by the fairy folk’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 054; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922134/4855323/5012477). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN009-068001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated atop low rock outcrop in wet partially reclaimed pasture with stream immediately to W of site. Area of rock outcrop with some low orthostats protruding above the surface of the ground forming a small circular area or cairn with a single oak tree rising from the centre of the monument which has a cross carved into the bark to commemorate the childrens burial ground (TN009-068----). Embedded into the base of this tree there is a small granite bullaun stone with quartz inclusions and is very similar to the bullaun stones that originally came from the townland of Carrigagown North (TN009-065----). It is possible that this is the site of an earlier monument possibly some form of church site from which the bullaun stone originated and was later re-used as a children's burial ground in the 19th and 20th centuries. Known locally as 'The Fairy Rath of Mota' and the bullaun stone was known locally as a ‘holy water font’ which might suggest that this was a cashel or stone fort reused as a children's burial ground. In 1937 Moira Carroll of Brookfield, and a pupil in Killadangan National School collected the following story about this monument; ‘The fairy rath of Mota is situated in the townsland of Mota, near the public road, one and a half miles from the village of Coolbawn. There is a beautiful stream running beside the rath and also some large white-thorn trees. There is a hollowed stone in the rath, which is supposed to be used as a holy water font, as it is believed that Mass was said there in the Penal days. One day there was a man named Paddy the Nailer passing by the Rath and he heard beautiful music but the tune had a straight air, and the mane knew the tune and he whistled it in such a beautiful manner that the Kind of fairies sent out to know who he was. They told him that it was a little man with a hump on his back. The King told the fairies to take the hump off his back and make him straight. This man told the story to the rest of the people. When a man named Mick Kane heard this, he said he should go and whistle the tune too, as he had a hump on his back also, so he set off and when he reached the Rath the fairies were singing. He thought the hump would be taken of his back if he whistled the tune, as he was a very bad whistler, he spoiled the beautiful tune. The King sent out word to know who spoiled their nice tune, the fairies told him that it was a big man with a hump on his back. The King ordered them to take the hump they took off Paddy the Nailer and put it on Mick Keane's back with the other hump. The old people of this district ascertain this story to be true as their parents knew Mick Keane with the two humps on his back’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Pages 521-3; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922134/4855323/5012477). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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.