Frolick

Area

60,203 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 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

Frolick

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.

• TN009-042 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with a river immediately to the SE. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old little castle ye walls onely standing' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 306). The land at Ballycolliton was divided between several landowners including 'Sr Nicholas White Kt pprietor in fee by purchas from Edmond Kenedy of Ballycollatan long before the Rebellion (as wee are informed)…John Hurly pprietor in fee by purchas from Mortagh O Bryen of Annagh long before the Rebellion (as wee are informed)…Rory Kenedy pprietor in fee by descent from his Ancestors' (ibid.). In 1677, William Cleburne purchased from Capt. Solomon Cambie "the castles, towns and lands of Ballycollitan, the villadge and lands of Bunnadubber [Bunnabober] and of Killinboy or Knock, Ballycullatan; also that part of Annagh from the Castle of Annagh [TN009-036----] to the ditch of Kilbulloir [Kilbiller], together with all the profits and emoluments from the said castles, towns, villadges and lands," as by a Deed enrolled in the Public Record Office, Dublin, dated 20th July, 1677. William of Ballycollitan Castle, eldest son of "William the Wise," was born 14th September, 1642, died 22nd October, 1684. (Will proved, 5th February, 1684-5, Pub. Rec. Off. Dublin.) Though a firm believer in the "Divine right of Kings," he married the daughter of a Cromwellian officer, Elizabeth Cambie of Annagh Castle, county Tipperary, by whom he had one child, a daughter Elizabeth, born 22nd May, 1682, and died 4th June, 1682. Having no male issue, all his landed estate in Wexford and Tipperary passed to his nephew William, son of his brother Richard of Bunadubber, with the proviso that, "in default of heir's male of their bodies, all his property was to descend to the heirs general of the said William and Richard. In his will he directs that "my body shall be buried in the Church of Kilbarron [TN009-003001-], covering my grave with a plaine marble stone, ingraving thereon my name and coate of Armes. The inscription on the tomb-stone on the vault [TN009-003003-] of Sir William Clebburne, as he is called, is (under a shield of his arms Argent 3 chevronels braced, a chief sable). William, son and heir of Richard of Bunadubber, succeeded to the "castles, towns, and lands of Ballycolitan, Bunnadubber, Knockballycolitan, and part of Annagh, in accordance with the will of his uncle William" (O'Hart 1892 113-5). A small rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 6.3m SW-NE; 4.75m NW-SE; wall T 1.5m) survives three storeys high and may originally have been a storey higher. It is built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter visible. Nineteenth-century outhouses are attached to the NW, NE and SW faces. A large water tank and bellcote were placed on top of the tower in the nineteenth century. A flat-headed doorway in the centre of the SE wall probably replaced the original doorway and gave access to the ground floor. This is now covered in debris, with a destroyed fireplace in the E angle of the NE wall the only feature visible. The first floor had a wooden ceiling as had the ground floor and measures 2.25m x 3.8m internally with a fireplace in the E angle of the NE wall the flue of which feeds into the ground-floor fireplace flue. Mural stairs in the SE wall give access to a barrel-vaulted second floor via a flat-headed doorway in the S angle. This floor was lit by windows in the NW, SE and NE walls set into large segmental-arched embrasures with wicker centring visible; the windows are now blocked up. There are slop-stones under slit opes along the mural stairs in the SE wall. Windows consist of simple flat, round and ogee-headed single lights. A possible bawn wall/forebuilding (TN009-042002-) is attached to the NE angle of the tower. This is probably a seventeenth-century tower house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 July 2022

• TN009-042001 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. In the Patent Roll of James I in 1618 there is a reference to 'the small thatched castle of Ballicolliton containg 20a small measure in the town and fields thereof' which was rented by Daniel and William McEdmond Mc Teige (Cal. pat. Rolls, Ire., Jas I, 40). There are no earthworks visible at ground level around Ballycolliton tower house (TN009-042). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN009-042002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with a river immediately to the SE. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old little castle ye walls onely standing' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 306). The land at Ballycolliton was divided between several landowners including 'Sr Nicholas White Kt pprietor in fee by purchas from Edmond Kenedy of Ballycollatan long before the Rebellion (as wee are informed)…John Hurly pprietor in fee by purchas from Mortagh O Bryen of Annagh long before the Rebellion (as wee are informed)…Rory Kenedy pprietor in fee by descent from his Ancestors' (ibid.). A small rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 6.3m SW-NE; 4.75m NW-SE; wall T 1.5m) survives three storeys high and may originally have been a storey higher. It is built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter visible. Nineteenth-century outhouses are attached to the NW, NE and SW faces. A large water tank and bellcote were placed on top of the tower in the nineteenth century. A flat-headed doorway in the centre of the SE wall probably replaced the original doorway and gave access to the ground floor. This is now covered in debris, with a destroyed fireplace in the E angle of the NE wall the only feature visible. The first floor had a wooden ceiling as had the ground floor and measures 2.25m x 3.8m internally with a fireplace in the E angle of the NE wall the flue of which feeds into the ground-floor fireplace flue. Mural stairs in the SE wall give access to a barrel-vaulted second floor via a flat-headed doorway in the S angle. This floor was lit by windows in the NW, SE and NE walls set into large segmental-arched embrasures with wicker centring visible; the windows are now blocked up. There are slop-stones under slit opes along the mural stairs in the SE wall. Windows consist of simple flat, round and ogee-headed single lights. A possible bawn wall/forebuilding (TN009-042002) is attached to the NE angle of the tower. This is probably a seventeenth-century tower house. 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 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 moderately high, 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.