Garryroe

Area

11,993 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,307 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

Garryroe

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.

• TS082-043001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On the edge of a limestone outcrop with a sharp drop immediately E of the site, in pasture, c.100m SW of Garryroe House. John Keting of 'Nicholestown' is named in an indenture of 1542 (COD IV, 230). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6), the land at 'Nickolstowne' was owned by 'Richard Keatinge of Nickolstowne, Esqr Irish Papist' in 1640 and 'Upon the sd lands stands a Castle, the walls of a house within a bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 317). This ruined tower house is located in the NW angle of a rectangular bawn (TS082-043002-). The tower house (int. dims. 7.15m x c.7.1m; walls 2.4m T) is constructed of roughly cut limestone blocks, randomly coursed, with pebble-filled mortar and base-batter (H 3m; Wth c.0.4m). Cut stone quoins survive on the upper level of the NW angle and at the base of the NE angle. The N wall partially survives up to parapet level and part of the N end of the W wall survives. The E end of the S wall also survives, though the SE angle is gone. There is a lot of collapsed rubble around the base of the walls in the interior, with a large hollow in the centre. There is a central broken-out window in the N wall at ground-floor and first-floor level and a wall-cupboard visible at first-floor level. The stairs do not survive but were probably located at the SE angle, where a door jamb projects from the S wall. With stairs in this angle, it is likely that the entrance was on the E wall, within the bawn. The second floor was vaulted, springing from the E and W walls, though it only survives at the N end of the W wall. There is evidence of a mural chamber in the thickness of the N wall, at second-floor level. Remains of a third floor are visible at the NW angle with evidence of a parapet and circular bartizan above. The bartizan has three surviving gun-loops. It rests on a double corbel on the N and W walls, with a single, chamfered corbel on the angle and two gutter-stones projecting from the base. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS082-043002 Bawn
  Description

  According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the land at 'Nickolstowne' was owned by 'Richard Keatinge of Nickolstowne, Esqr Irish Papist' in 1640 and 'Upon the sd lands stands a Castle, the walls of a house within a bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 317). On the W edge of limestone outcrop with a sharp drop immediately W of the bawn. Tower house (TS082-043002-) is located in the NW angle of the bawn. It is unclear whether the tower house is incorporated within the bawn or whether the bawn wall runs up to the walls of the tower house. If the latter is the case the bawn would have to kink in to meet the tower house both at the W end of the N wall and at the N end fo the W wall. The bawn is largely intact (dims. 58.9m N-S x 30.2m E-W).The N wall of the bawn has collapsed and only a low mound of rubble survives, it appears to turn in towards the tower house in the NW angle but this is unclear. The E end of the N wall of the tower house is obscured by ivy, no evidence of a return on the external face of the batter. The S end of the bawn is the best preserved, the S wall survives intact, built of rubble limestone, roughly coursed. There is a small breach near the middle of the wall above which the masonry has collapsed. There is a second breach (Wth 1.6m) E of this, and a large breach at the E end of the S wall. The E wall (3m H to base of coping; 0.9m T) survives intact at the S end for a length of 19.5m, no visible features. At the N end of this intact length of wall there is a broken return, projecting internally. The E wall has collapsed beyond this and becomes a low mound of rubble. The S end of the W wall (0.9m T) also survives intact for 21m. Towards the S end of the W wall there are two possible put-logs, c. 1.8m above the interior and 0.7m apart. Internally the top of the bawn wall is defined by a stone string-course or projecting coping with splayed coping stones above. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS082-043003 House - 17th century
  Description

  According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the land at 'Nickolstowne' was owned by 'Richard Keatinge of Nickolstowne, Esqr Irish Papist' in 1640 and 'Upon the sd lands stands a Castle, the walls of a house within a bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 317). Located on the edge of limestone outcrop with a sharp drop immediately to E, in pasture, is the bawn (TS082-043002-) which the Civil Survey suggests enclosed a house as well as Nicholastown Castle (TS082-043001-). Both the bawn and part of the tower house still survive but there is no visible trace above ground of the house which is unlocated within the bawn. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 5 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.