Cashel

Cashel is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johnbaptist, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Caiseal.

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CashelHughes'-Lot East St. Francisabbey

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Area: 87 m²
Buildings: 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 217 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: Cashel

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TS061-025 Historic town
Description
In 370 Cashel became the principal stronghold of the Kings of Munster (Craig, M. and the Knight of Glin, 1970, 24-25). In 1101 it became primarily an ecclesiastical centre (ibid.), having been handed over to the Church by Muircheartach O'Brien (O'Flanagan 1930, 121-127; 128-152). The town was taken out of the archbishop's control in 1218 by the Justiciar of Ireland (Bradley 1985, 45). Ten years later the new town of Cashel was returned to the control of Archbishop Marianus Ua Briain with the agreement of Henry III (ibid.). In 1250 there is a charter from Archbishop Muirin to the reeve and twelve burgesses (Cahill 1982, 8/32). Edward Bruce halted his army here in 1316 and held a Parliament at Cashel (Jackson 1957, 15-19). The town wall was built between 1319 and 1324 (Jackson 1949, 24-25). The ecclesiastical centre on the Rock of Cashel was burnt in 1647 by Murrough O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin (Op. cit., 1970, 24-25). From the 1980s onwards, a series of archaeological excavations have uncovered information about the medieval layout of the town. In 1988 a trial excavation was conducted at the town wall in the Mitchelstown Co-op complex revealed that 'a thick occupation deposit ran under the wall and may have related to a pre-walled Norman occupation or to some activity associated with the ecclesiastical settlement at the Rock of Cashel' (O'Donnell 1989, 36). A subsequent excavation in 1990 confirmed the medieval date of the wall (Stevens 1991, 51). A post-medieval four-sided sunken stone structure (c.4.3m x 3.5m ext.) was also revealed (ibid.). Other test excavations in 1990 close to the Main Street frontage, at 66-73 Main St., revealed possible house floors of probable medieval date (Hayden 1991, 51-2). Excavation in 1997 at Lower Gate Street found no evidence to suggest that there was medieval or post-medieval suburban settlement or activity outside the walled town (Henry 1998, 160). It can be surmised, in this part of Cashel, that the town wall acted as a boundary for buildings and gardens (ibid.). From April 1998 to January 1999 a new storm and foul network of pipes was laid in and around parts of the town of Cashel (Henry 2000, 190). A licence was held to monitor all ground disturbance works in association with this scheme (ibid.). Regarding The Green and Upper Green, an area of the town that is c. 40m to the south of the medieval walled town, there was no evidence to suggest the presence of extra-mural activity of medieval date (ibid. 191). Equally there was no evidence uncovered in McCann Street, a street c. 80m to the east of the walled town, to suggest that there ever was significant medieval or post-medieval activity in this part of the town (ibid.). There were no traces of earlier street patterns, strata or structures of any significant archaeological date, other than services, found on McCann Street (ibid.). It could be concluded that there was little or no tendency for the town of Cashel to expand in any large scale in an easterly or southerly direction beyond the walled town during the medieval period and in particular in the earlier part of the post-medieval period (ibid.). Another area looked at outside the walled town was Camus Road, 90m to the west of the west circuit of the walled town (ibid.). Limited evidence was found of archaeological activity (ibid.). A possible medieval cobbled surface was uncovered during pre-construction testing (ibid.). The surface was sealed with a rich, black, organic dumped material (ibid.). The findings from Camus Road, though limited, tied into those found on the lane off Camus Road (ibid.). This lane extended in a westerly direction away from the walled town and at right angles to the west of Camus Road (ibid.). There was a dense network of cobbled surfaces, one superseding the other. In most instances the surfaces were separated by medieval, dumped, organic material (ibid.). In addition to the medieval deposits and cobbled surfaces a substantial wall was uncovered in section. It was 7m long and had an average height of 0.5m (ibid.). Though of medieval date, the wall was pre-dated by organic deposits and surfaces. It was not possible to determine the function of the wall (ibid.). However, the findings from the excavation along the lane confirmed that there was extra-mural activity during the medieval and post-medieval period in this part of the town (ibid.). Evidence of early streets was uncovered: their demise, the build-up of organic material, the laying of new cobbled surfaces and a substantial medieval wall, a possible wall of a large extra-mural building (TS061-025032-) (ibid.). Colliers Lane and William Street in the centre of the town were looked at (ibid.). Both areas would have been at the heart of or close to commercial activity in the medieval market town (ibid.). Colliers Lane, though just outside the walled town, would have been close to the activities in the medieval town, and the lane is very near the Dominican Abbey (ibid.). Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of Colliers Lane was the very high level of disturbance and truncation of deposits by stone-lined culverts and dormant and live services (ibid.). Any archaeology that may have survived from the medieval and/or post-medieval period would have been destroyed by the extensive ground disturbances along this lane during the late 19th and 20th century (ibid.). William Street provided the only opportunity to see what was going on inside the medieval walled town (ibid.). It was strategically placed between two important medieval streets, John Street and Main Street, and would have extended alongside the backs of properties that fronted onto those streets and burgage plots (ibid.). Although the trench for the new pipes was quite narrow, archaeological remains of a medieval date were identified during the monitoring of construction works (ibid.). A post-medieval street surface was picked up (ibid.). It overlay two earlier surfaces, again both of post-medieval date (ibid.). The surfaces sealed dumped occupational debris of medieval date (TS061-025033-) (ibid.). The deposit was typical dumped domestic waste that is very common to medieval towns (ibid.). No structures of medieval date were uncovered along the pipeline route (ibid.). The deposits reflect typical medieval activity, the dumping and accumulation of the residue from everyday activities inside a medieval town (ibid.). The development of a site at Collier's Lane, Cashel, required an archaeological assessment (Hurley 2000, 285). The site is close to the Dominican priory (founded in 1243) and is just outside the walled town (ibid.). A number of linear features were uncovered by the excavation. Given that the Dominican priory is so close, that these lands most likely belonged to that order, and that they are known to have houses and gardens close to the abbey, it is most likely that these linear features are the drainage ditches that marked out these gardens and fields (ibid.). It is noticeable that in all editions of the OS 6-inch map of the area the site is shown as being empty except for a series of small houses or sheds fronting part of Collier's Lane (ibid.). Excavation of Cashel's medieval town wall and associated features was conducted before the construction of a library, adjacent to Friar Street (Gregory 2000, 286). The excavated area consisted of the N-S basal remains of the town wall, built c. 1265 (ibid.). The inner portion of the town wall was built on the remains of a substantial backfilled ditch (D 1.8m) that extended beyond the excavation area (ibid.). Part of a human burial was recovered from the base of this ditch. The backfill contained 13th-14th-century pottery (ibid.). It is probable that the pottery entered here during the backfilling phase. The nature of the backfill is consistent with bank material (ibid.). It is possible that this ditch and bank arrangement has some association with the nearby St John's Cathedral (ibid.). St John's Cathedral is on the site of a
TS061-025001 Chapel
Description
On the S side of the summit of a prominent rock outcrop overlooking the town of Cashel (TS061-025----) c. 300m to the S-SE. A round tower (TS061-025002-) is located c. 30m to the N and a high cross (TS061-025006-) lies c. 20m to the SW, though the latter's original position may have been 10m from the N portal of the Romanesque chapel (O'Keeffe 2003, 127-8). A later cathedral (TS061-025003-) was built up against the N tower and incorporates the W gable. It is likely that the church was built as a royal chapel for Cormac McCarthy, king of Munster. Historical sources give the foundation date as 1127, with its consecration in 1134. This date is generally accepted though Stalley has argued for a slightly later foundation date (O'Keeffe 2003, 128-131). The nature of the involvement of the Benedictine order has also been open to question. Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 105) state that in 1121- c. 1133 the abbot of Ratisbon (Regensburg), Germany sent Irishmen to establish a Benedictine foundation at Cashel and that the priory was established on the Upper Rock of Cashel. Several visits of monks from Ratisbon to Cashel are recorded between 1127 and 1150 (O'Keeffe 2003, 130-1). However, as O'Keeffe argues, it would appear more likely that the royal chapel was served by a monastic clergy, rather than being a monastic church. The monks appear to have been expelled between 1269-72 and were replaced by the Cistercians at Hore Abbey (TS061-024----) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 105). The relative sophistication of this Romanesque church with its twin towers, external arcading and the elaborately carved hunting scene on the tympanum over the doorway suggests strong continental influences and there is evidence that Regensburg craftsmen were involved in its construction, although an English derivation is favoured by some scholars (de Paor 1967, 134). The chapel (total L c. 15m; wall T 1m), constructed of coursed sandstone blocks, consists of a nave (Wth 5.1m) and chancel (Wth 4.8m) with a small apse-like rectangular recess running off the chancel to the E while a doorway of two orders gives acess to the N tower (H over 20m) at the eastern end of the N wall of the nave, and a smaller round-headed doorway leads to the spiral staircase in the corresponding S tower. Above the barrel vault of the nave there is a bee-hive vaulted chamber formerly of two-storeys, which is known as the croft. The most striking architectural features of the church are the boldly carved chancel arch executed in four orders with a hood-moulding; the groined vault of the chancel with heavy diagonal ribs of half-round section; the ornamental pedimented gable of the N porch and N door in five orders with a hood-moulding and tympanum with lion hunting scene. Frescos, covering the walls and ribs of the chancel have been restored to reveal two layers of painting. The frescos include geometric and floral motifs as well as figurative scenes including the baptism of Christ and possibly Solomon and the Queen of Sheba with the temple of Jerusalem (Crotty 1988, 155-8; Manning 2000, 19-20), though Stalley argues that this latter scene represents the adoration of the Magi (2002, 25-9). Excavations at Cormac's chapel in 1992 and 1993 (Hodkinson 1994, 174) revealed two earlier churches on the site (TS061-025028- and TS061-025029-). According to Hodkinson (ibid.) the building of Cormac's chapel began in 1127. In the mid 17th century Cormac's chapel was modified by the insertion of a door and steps into the N tower, the adaptation of the window to a door and the building of a sacristy (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 February 2013
TS061-025002 Round tower
Description
On the S side of the summit of a prominent rock outcrop overlooking the town of Cashel (TS061-025----) c. 300m to the S-SE. A Romanesque chapel (TS061-025001-) is located c. 30m to the S and a high cross (TS061-025006-) lies c. 50m to the SW, though the latter's original position may have been 10m from the N portal of the Romanesque chapel (O'Keeffe 2003, 127-8). It is situated at the NE corner of the N transept of the 13th-century cathedral (TS061-025003-) to which it was connected by a passage. The tower (diam. C. 5.33m; H 27.9m - including cap 4.42m) was most likely erected in the 12th century following the transfer of St. Patrick's Rock to the church. It is constructed of coursed sandstone with limestone in evidence in the lower masonry courses and was restored by the O.P.W. in 1874-5, at which times most of the masonry was repointed and the conical cap reset. The original round-headed doorway (H 1.65m; Wth 0.74m; H above ground 3.28m) faces SE, probably towards the W doorway of the first cathedral which was built by c. 1111, and is now replaced by the Gothic cathedral (Stalley 1996, 309; Manning 2000, 32). A second doorway situated in the W face of the tower gives access to the connecting triforium passage of the cathedral. The internal wooden floors, which were connected by ladder, were lit by three flat-headed single-lights at various intervals facing N, NE and SE. However, the top floor, which housed the bell or bells, has four triangular-headed single-light windows, just below the cornice, facing NE, SE, NW and SW respectively. (Barrow 1979, 182-5). The interior of the round tower was excavated in 1841 and was found to be 'filled with loose earth, intermixed with human bones, about two feet [c. 0.6m] deep; under this was a mass of solid stone-work, forming the original floor of the building, about five feet nine [c. 1.7m] below the door; through this the workmen penetrated to the rock on which the tower was built; small fragments of charcoal were found at the base of the tower' (Coleman 1914, 102). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025003 Cathedral
Description
Roughly centrally placed on the summit of a prominent rock outcrop overlooking the town of Cashel (TS061-025----) c. 300m to the S-SE. An earlier Romanesque chapel (TS061-025001-) is located in the external angle between the choir and the S transept and a high cross (TS061-025006-) lies c. 10m SW of the W angle of the S transept, though the latter's original position may have been 10m from the N portal of the Romanesque chapel (O'Keeffe 2003, 127-8). The cathedral is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed. It is cruciform in plan, comprising a long choir and short nave, a N and S transept, off which run a number of side chapels, a crossing tower at the junction of nave and choir, and a tower house built onto the W end of the nave. There are a large number of altar tombs and wall memorials within the cathedral, the majority of which date from the 16th century. The main entrance to the cathedral is the porch, with groin-vaulted ceiling, which projects from the S wall of the nave. The matching porch on the N side no longer survives apart from a smaller doorway, the inner arch of which is blocked (Manning 2000, 27). The choir (int. dims. 28.3m x c. 9m; wall T 1.5m) dates to the 1230s and is the earliest phase of the cathedral where the all the carved stonework is sandstone. It was lit by a sequence of lancet windows in the N and S walls with clerestorey quatrefoil windows, within segmental-arched embrasures with unusual curving sills, between the tops of the lancets. Only the lower portion of the three-light E window survives. There are two other windows, one looking N and the other S into the courtyard which separates the cathedral from Cormac's Chapel. There is a blocked-up doorway in the N wall which lead into a sacristy or chantry which no longer survives. At the E end of the S wall there is a piscina and W of this there is a sedilia and a tomb recess containing the effigy of Archbishop Miler Magrath. W of this tomb is a doorway, inserted in the post-medieval period, which led to a chamber or sacristy which no longer survives (Manning 2000, 25). According to Seymour (1910, 330-331) this chamber probably served as the chapter-house throughout the 17th century. The 15th-century crossing tower (int. dims. 15m x 15m) is carried on four 13th-century clustered banded columns with ornate limestone capitals. Overhead there is a ribbed vault which was largely reconstructed in 1875, having, according to tradition, been damaged when the bells were moved in the siege of 1647 (Manning 2000, 28). The crossing tower is lit by ogee-headed windows and the main chamber contains sculpted corbels bearing animal and human heads. The transepts (both c. 12m x 17m) running off the crossing tower to the N and S are contemporary with the crossing tower and nave and both are lit by three-light lancets which were lowered in height in the 15th century. A wall painting depicted the crucifixion has recently been restored in the S transept. The N transept has a simple openwork quatrefoil set into a round embrasure above the head of the central lancet. A series of pointed windows are set high in the E and W walls of both transepts. They are connected to each other by mural passages which themselves are accessible via two winding staircases on the N and S sides of the crossing tower. Facilitated by steep flights of ascending and descending stairs, these passages run through the walls of the transepts on all sides and down over the eastern tower arch and extend westwards into the sidewalls of the nave. Beneath the spiral stairs in the NW pier of the crossing there is an earlier rock cut well. Both transepts have side chapels on their E side. Those in the N transept form external projections and are each gabled and lit by twin lancet windows. The most northerly of the two is called the Apostles Chapel and the southern one is known as the Baptistry. The two vaulted chapels in the corresponding S transept dedicated to St. Brigid and the Blessed Virgin, are not additions but are simply created out of the wall thickness. Externally, the NE and SE angles of the S transept terminate in elaborate corner piers which have canopied niches for statuary and terminate, above the roof, in octagonal turrets with conical caps. The nave is unusually short (int. dims. L c. 15m x Wth 12m), perhaps having been shortened by the insertion of a tower house (TS061-025004-) at the W end by Archbishop Richard O'Hedian in the mid 15th century. There is a two-light window in the S wall of the nave, partially converted into a tomb niche, with 17th-century stucco decorating the embrasure. The residential tower at the W end of the nave is entered through a pointed doorway at the S end of the W wall. In the early 16th century, between 1504 and 1525, a second floor was built over the nave, it connected with the tower house and appears to have functioned as an upper hall (Stalley 1996, 312). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 February 2013
TS061-025004 Castle - tower house
Description
On the summit of a prominent rock outcrop overlooking the town of Cashel (TS061-025----) c. 300m to the S-SE. A five-storey a residential tower house (int. diam. c. 10m x 5m; wall T c. 1m) of roughly coursed limestone rubble, surmounted by a stepped parapet. It was built into the W end of the nave of the cathedral (TS061-025003-), probably by Archbishop Richard O'Hedian (1406-40) (Stalley 1996, 312). There is an angle buttress at the W end of the S wall rising to second-floor level, with a cusped ogee-headed statue niche incorporated into the base mimicking the 13th-century trefoil-headed niches on the exterior of the cathedral. There is a barrel-vaulted roof over the first floor. The chamber at second-floor level is very commodious with a cut-stone oculus window in the W wall and the remains of a joggle-jointed limestone fireplace in the E wall. This level is protected by several murder-holes and is connected to the adjoining cathedral via a mural passage. A steep straight-sided mural stair rises in the W wall. Most of the S wall of the tower house collapsed in a storm in 1848 (Manning 2000, 31). An 18th-century sketch shows a two-light traceried window in each of the two upper levels of the S wall (Harbison 1998, 214-5). A tower of pentagonal plan connects the tower house with the cathedral crossing-tower. It houses a well-lit broad spiral staircase, the descent of which leads into the cathedral by a doorway in the S transept. At the top of the staircase there is a sculpted stone head wearing a mitre, presumably that of an archbishop. In the early 16th century, between 1504 and 1525, a second floor was built over the cathedral's nave, which connected with the tower house and appears to have functioned as an upper hall (Stalley 1996, 312). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025005 College
Description
On the S edge of the summit of a prominent rock outcrop overlooking the town of Cashel (TS061-025----) c. 300m to the S-SE. The cathedral (TS061-025003-) is located c. 15m to the N. The building of a hall for eight Vicars Choral is attributed to Archbishop Richard O'Hedian (1406-40) and is contemporary with the residential tower house (TS061-025004-) at the W end of the nave of the cathedral. The Vicars Choral consisted of both laymen and clerics who were appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral service. This is a long building, constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, the western end consists of a chamber to the W, possibly a gatehouse and to the E a vaulted undercroft and galleried hall above. Excavations immediately W of the W gable uncovered the eastern pier of two periods of gateway, one pre-dating the college and one contemporary with it (Manning 1989, 46). The eastern end of the college is on a slightly different alignment and functioned as a two-storey dormitory with four ogee-headed windows in the S wall of each level, presumably lighting the eight bed spaces provided. The main hall contains a large fireplace, which is a later insertion, bearing the latin inscription 'E.S. ET E.H. ME FIERI FE[CERUNT]' which translates as E.S. and E.H. had me made. Manning (2000, 34) suggests that the initialled surnames refer to Sall and Hayden or Hackett. The oak floor, gallery and roof date to 1985 when the building was restored by the Office of Public Works. Prior to restoration the interior was excavated and finds of 17th-century date were recovered as well as evidence of earlier mortared walls (Manning 1986, 37). The undercroft is currently used to store and display carved stonework from the Rock and surrounding areas. A sheela-na-gig (TS061-025024-) is carved on an upper quoin on the S face of the SE angle of the E gable. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025006 Cross - High cross
Description
Traditionally referred to as 'St Patrick's Cross'. Housed in the vaulted undercroft of the college of the Vicars Choral (TS061-025005-) where it was moved in 1981 from its former position, now occupied by a replica, c. 10m N of this building and c. 10m SW of the W angle of the S transept of the cathedral (TS061-025003-). An excavation at this location revealed that this is not the original position of the high cross (Lynch 1983, 15-16). Stalley (1985, 8-10) suggests that this 12th century cross is likely to have stood a distance of approx. 10m in front of the N portal of the Romanesque chapel (TS061-025001-) and had to be moved when the 13th-century cathedral was erected. The cross (H 2.42m) was hewn from a single piece of sandstone and is decorated on the W face with a depiction of Christ crucified while the E face displays a panel of interlaced beasts. It is unusual in that the arms of the cross were supported on stone uprights, one on either side, of which only one survives. The base (dims. 1.45m x 1.15m; H 1.22m) into which the cross is tenonned was also decorated . Although it is badly eroded, a rectangular panel with irregular interlace and two bird-like creatures at the top is discernible on the E face, a Greek cross within a pattern of T-shapes, L-shapes and squares on the S face and a pattern of approx. 16 concentric circles is visible on the N side with an animal at the centre, interpreted by Harbison (1998, 107-111) as a Minotaur at the centre of a labyrinth (Leask 1951, 14-18; Harbison 1992, 34-5). There is no discernible decoration on the W face, this may be due to erosion. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025007 Religious house - Dominican friars
Description
On the E side of Dominic Street at the northern end of the town (TS061-025----), immediately outside the medieval town wall (TS061-025023-). This priory was founded in 1243 by Archbishop David O'Kelly of Cashel (d. 1252) for the Dominican Friars (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 223). A S transept with a W aisle was added c. 1270 (Leask 1967, 93). Testimony to the importance of the foundation was its hosting of two general chapters of the Dominican order in Ireland in 1289 and 1307 (Harbison 1970, 225). Following an accidental fire in c. 1480 the greater part of the friary was rebuilt by Arcbishop John Cantwell (d. 1483) in return for which he was recognised as patron and co-founder (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 223). In April 1540 the then Prior, Edward Brown surrendered the Friary (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 223). In an inquisition of that time it was described as comprising a church and belfry, a cloister, dormitory, and a chamber with two cellars accompanied by an orchard, three gardens, and a cemetery (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 223). In the precincts there were nine cottages with six gardens and outside were two messuages with four gardens (White 1943, 334-5). In 1543-4 the entire complex was granted to Walter Fleming for a rent of £46.2s.6d (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 223). The upstanding remains consist of a long rectangular church, orientated E-W, with a crossing tower (dims E-W 5.68m) at the junction of the nave (int. dims. E-W 23.1m) and choir, a S transept (int. dims. 5.75m N-S; E-W including W aisle 12.3m) running off the nave with a western aisle (Wth 3.95m), the piers of which are only visible as column bases and an aisle on the S side of the nave (int. dims. of nave and S aisle N-S 12.75m), the springer for the W arch of which projects from the W gable. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with yellow sandstone employed for the 13th-century lancet windows and doorways, and cut and dressed limestone utilised in the 15th-century alterations. The pointed doorway in the W gable has sandstone surrounds with an external chamfer. There is a horizontal recess (H c. 0.3m) above the doorway which runs the width of the gable. The choir is lit by a sequential alignment of nine lancet windows in the S wall, while the triple lancets in the E gable have been blocked up and a four-light traceried window inserted. The 13th-century windows in the S transept and the W gable of the nave have also been blocked up and replaced by traceried windows. The crossing tower, added in the 15th century, rises on stone piers with a vaulted arch at a level with the top of the nave wall. The tower rises three storeys above the arch with the lower courses of the parapet surviving. The coping stones of the nave roof project from the E face of the tower, with a doorway above the roofline on the N side where the tower was accessible from the wall-walk of the nave. A series of five corbels and the coping stones of claustral buildings project out from the external N face of the nave, above which is a row of 13th-century sandstone lancet windows lighting the nave. There is a blocked flat-headed sandstone doorway at first-floor level at the W end of the N wall of the nave which is not visible externally. There are also the remains of a building running E-W adjoining the northern and southern ends of the external face of the E wall of the S transept. There are a number of medieval graveslabs (TS061-025065- to TS061-025075-) in the nave, the S transept and its aisle and a 13th/14th-century sarcophagus (TS061-025063-) in the NE corner of the nave. Incorporated into the masonry of the N wall of the nave there is a sculpted female head (TS061-025076-) and portion of a side-panel of an altar tomb (TS061-025064-) decorated with the symbols of the passion. A primitive carving of a male child-like figure (perhaps a portrayal of the child Jesus) appears to be of post-1700 date. There is a very badly worn fragment of a medieval graveslab functioning as a step up into the chancel area E of the crossing tower. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025008 Religious house - Franciscan friars
Description
E of Friar Street and outside the southern end of the E length of the medieval town wall (TS061-025023-). The site is currently occupied by an RC Church and a former Convent complex. The friary, also known as Hacket's Abbey, was founded in c. 1265 by Lord William Hacket for the Conventual Franciscans (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 244). The foundation became Observant in 1538 and in the same year the Archbishop of Cashel Edmund Butler obtained the friary for a small rent (ibid.). During the course of the dissolution of monasteries, the Cashel friary was seized, but the friars were apparently allowed to stay on (ibid.). An inquisition of the 7th April 1540 described the precinct as comprising a church and steeple, dormitory, hall, four chambers, kitchen and two gardens, one acre, all in a ruinous state and not valued; the possessions included 18 messuages and gardens, and 16 acres of land, valued at £3 10s. 2d.(ibid.). The friars finally abandoned the premises in c. 1550 (ibid.). There are no extant structural remains of the Franciscan Friary. An 18th-century illustration (Grose 1791 (reprint 1982), 47-8) shows the friary church from the SE, with three tall lancet windows in the E gable and sequential lancets in the S wall of the chancel, though the most easterly appears enlarged with a segmental head. The partial E wall of a S transept is depicted, as well as the S gable and E wall of a possible side chapel, W of the transept. This side chapel is shown with a three-light traceried window with hood-moulding in the S gable. The text accompanying the sketch states that 'On the night of the 14th of February, 1757, the lofty and beautiful steeple of this church fell to the ground. This religious house was situate at the rear of Friar-street, and is now so much gone to ruin, that it is scarcely possible to trace the divisions of the building: what remains measures east and west, one hundred and fifty feet (45m) in length, and twenty-five (7.6m) in breadth; on the south side, opposite the centre of this range, is a small chapel, with niches for candles, and a handsome window. In the year 1781, the great east window and many other parts of the Abbey were pulled down, to employ the materials in private buildings.' In 1888 John Davis White noted that not a stone of the abbey was still standing, having been replaced by the modern Catholic church. He added that a 'stone coffin' (TS061-025077-), said to be that of Sir William Hackett, had been placed at the entrance to the church and was being used as a holy water recepticle. Other graveslabs and effigies from the Franciscan Friary have been moved to the C of I Catherdral of St. John the Baptist and to the Vicar's Choral on the Rock of Cashel. There are several architectural fragments visible in the external face of the RC church boundary wall. Two limestone capitals (TS083-019104-; TS083-019105-) from the friary, dating to the latter half of the 13th century, are currently stored in South Tipperary County Museum. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 February 2015
TS061-025009 Castle - tower house
Description
On the SE side of Main Street, Cashel, centrally placed within the walled town (TS061-025001-). This tower house is generally known as Quirke's castle but it is historically associated with Gaelic Kearney family who were one of the leading families in Cashel up to the Cromwellian confiscations. Thomas Kearney was Alderman of Cashel in 1640. Lord Inchiquin apparently used the castle as a base for his garrison during his seige of the Rock of Cashel in 1647 and Fr. John Kearney was hanged within the tower house in 1652. The tower house (int. dims. 5.15m x 4.85m; wall T over 1m) is currently converted into a hotel and is called Grant's Castle. A five-storey high tower house with two caphouses, running NW-SE along the NE and SW walls respectively, constructed of limestone rubble roughly coursed with well-cut quoinstones and a pronounced base-batter (H c. 2.5m). The battlements have stepped crenellations with a wall-walk along the NW and SE walls with a series of drainage spouts, three of which terminate in sculpted human heads with gaping mouths. The original entrance to the towerhouse was on the street front, in the NW wall, but the mid-section of this wall up to first-floor level has been removed and a large round-headed arch inserted with a wooden and glass panelled doorway and a pseudo portcullis above. The fenestration has been somewhat altered, a large round-headed window has been inserted in the NW wall at third-floor level. At least one original single-light ogee-headed window, the other windows are simple loops lighting the spiral stair in the N angle. Much of the interior has been altered to accomodate hotel fittings but features such as the spiral staircase, embrasures and wall-cupboards remain intact. At ground-floor level the internal face of the SE wall has been robbed out. The first floor (dims. 6.18m NE-SW; 3.85m NW-SE) was entered from the spiral-stair via a pointed doorway into a short lobby, lit by a loop, and through a flat-headed doorway into the chamber. Though altered the remains of three window embrasures are discernible in the NE, NW and SW walls. The greater part of the southern end of the SE wall has been knocked through and a modern concrete window embrasure inserted. Near the S angle the head of an opening remains in situ and there is a large wall cupboard near the E angle of this SE wall. The second floor has a pointed vaulted roof with good wicker-centring, it was a loft space rather than a chamber and was only lit by a small window in the NW wall. It rested on a wooden floor, with beam-holes for the wall-plate at either end of the NW wall and was accessed from the floor below via a wooden stairs or ladder. The third floor (dims. 5.95m NE-SW; 4.75m NW-SE), entered from the spiral-stair, was probably lit by a window in each wall, the remains of embrasures are visible internally on all but the SW wall and this wall appears to have a modified window visible externally. There is a large wall-cupboard at the S end of the SE wall. The fourth floor was entered from the spiral-stair via a short passage lit by a single loop. The floor level has been raised by c. 1.2m to accommodate the hotel water tank. There are no windows at this level and like the second floor it appears to be a storage space. There is a large round-headed arched recess in the NE wall and a corbel table in the SW wall, both structural supports for the caphouse above each of these walls. The NE caphouse (Wth 1.35m) is lit by an ogee-headed window in the NE wall and the SW caphouse (Wth 0.58m) is lit by two loops in the SW wall and has a circular gun-loop in the NW wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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Ground and risks

Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides: The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.
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.

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Area: 13.7 ha; 34 acres
Land parcels: 171; registered freehold, median 130 m²
Zoning: —; not in a zoned settlement
Planning: 58; applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

CashelBoherclogh St. Dominick's Abbey Green Hughes'-Lot East Loughnafina Ladys Well St. Francisabbey St. Patricksrock Ashwell's-Lot Moor

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171 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 3 m² to 11,001 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Cashel in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

14 Aug 2026N/a
the construction of a four-storey extension to the existing Cashel Palace Hotel comprising 29 no. additional guestrooms, front of house reception area, meeting/conference rooms, gym, hair salon, juice bar, rooftop restaurant and bar area, together with ancillary staff and back of house uses including administration office, kitchen, plant/comms areas and storerooms. The proposed extension will link to the main hotel via the existing Spa Building with the construction of a glazed link corridor positioned at first floor level within the proposed extension. Internal works are also proposed within the existing Spa Building to facilitate this including demolition works to facilitate construction of the glazed link and the construction of an access stairs, and internal demolition works to facilitate reconfiguration of the Spa reception area and internal access arrangement. The development also includes upgrades to the Main Street / Buckley Carpark to provide a new link street, upgrades to the existing carpark including revised carparking layout, and the construction of a new surface carpark to provide additional private carparking spaces to serve the hotel within the rear garden of the AIB Bank, no. 66 Main Street, Cashel, Co. Tipperary to be facilitated by the partial demolition of the party wall separating the AIB curtilage from the existing public carpark and creation of a controlled (barriered) vehicular entrance. Landscaping and public realm upgrades, site services including drainage infrastructure, and all associated ancillary development works are also proposed. Part of the site is located within the Cashel Town Architectural Conservation Area. The works will be carried out within the curtilage of the following 5 structures on the Record of Protected Structures of the Cashel and Environs Development Plan 2009-2015: RPS Ref. 7 (Cashel Town Walls); RPS Ref. 8 (Cashel Palace Hotel); RPS Ref. 80 (Palace School House), RPS Ref. 81 (Cashel Palace Gate Lodge) and RPS Ref. 30 (No. 66 Main Street). No direct works are proposed to many of the listed protected structures with the exception of RPS30
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660792
20 Jan 2026Conditional
change of use of existing commercial unit, no 9, to a residential unit and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660036
29 Nov 2025Conditional
change of use from domestic dwelling to bed and breakfast (a protected structure)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561229
7 Mar 2025Conditional
a signage to facia and front windows on front elevation
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2528
22 Dec 2024Conditional
the change of use of existing ground floor unit from retail/shop to class 2(c) offices with ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461145
20 Dec 2024Conditional
a single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house which is a protected structure (Protected Structure Ref: 102, NIAH: 22105063) including demolition of existing adjoining outbuilding, upgrading and refurbishment of existing separate outbuilding, internal remodelling at ground floor level, landscaping works and all necessary siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461131
30 Apr 2024Conditional
a new glazed canopy over the existing ATM to front façade (Protected Structure - NIAH Ref 22105026)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460325
24 Apr 2024N/a
to retain indefinitely the as constructed single-storey extension to the existing coach house at the rear of our property and permission for change of use of coach house for residential use to accommodate 2 no. one-bed apartments, make modifications to said building and all associated site development works. This property is in the curtilage of a named Protected Structure R.P.S. ref. no. 78 / NIAH ref no. 22105027
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460310
11 Apr 2024Conditional
change of use of building from former bank premises to café / retail use to the front ground floor of the building, and to guesthouse use to the rear ground floor and all upper levels; elevational changes, new terrace to front elevation, landscaping, carparking and a new pedestrian entrance to the Buckley Carpark to the rear, connections to existing service and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460270
5 Apr 2024N/a
change of use from domestic dwelling to bed and breakfast - a protected structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460252
27 Feb 2024Conditional
change of use from commercial to three apartments including new frontage, additional floor areas, alterations to existing elevations and all necessary services
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460138
10 Nov 2023Conditional
the change of use of 6 no. existing apartments to use as Hostel Type Units and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360901
9 Nov 2023N/a
the change of use of 6 No. existing apartments to use as Hostel Type Units and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360893
4 Jul 2023Refused
change of use from licensed premises, known as Brian Boru lounge to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360485
1 Mar 2023Refused
the change of use from licensed premises, known as Brian Boru lounge at 49 Main Street, Cashel, to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360135
28 Feb 2023N/a
change of use from licensed premises, to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360132
7 Feb 2023Conditional
a) demolition of existing flat roof extension to the rear of existing dwelling, b)demolition of existing sheds on site, c) and permission to construct a new extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site-works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360082
25 Jan 2023Refused
two standalone Laundrette Kiosks and all associated works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360048
12 Dec 2022Conditional
the following: a.) installation of Ventilation unit to rear of premises (South West Facing), b.) Change of use of first floor area from residential to commercial use (storage) c.) installation of new roller door on the front elevation (North East facing) with all associated sitework and ancillary work
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260692
20 Oct 2022Conditional
change of use from retail to coffee shop including alterations to ground floor and shop front and all ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260566
3 Oct 2022N/a
all alterations, ancillary works, shop frontage and use as a coffee shop
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260532
28 Sept 2022Conditional
change of use from storage & WC/welfare area to community radio station, alteration to door/window layout to suit new function, removal of boiler flue, removal of oil tank, erection of radio transmitter mast and foundation, mast to have FM antenna and two circular 0.6m diameter dishes, erection of barriers in parking area to allow safe pedestrian access to radio station and all ancillary works - all within the curtilage of a protected structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260518
23 Sept 2022Conditional
the extension erected at the rear off our dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22572
8 Sept 2022Conditional
a new kitchen and store to the rear, the change of use from Public House to restaurant, the signage and all ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260467
3 Aug 2022Conditional
(i) replace the streetscape windows to the existing dwelling & (ii) the construction of a new extension to the rear of the dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260408

The 25 most recent of 58 applications.

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Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cashel.

Recorded monuments

TS061-025 Historic town
Description
In 370 Cashel became the principal stronghold of the Kings of Munster (Craig, M. and the Knight of Glin, 1970, 24-25). In 1101 it became primarily an ecclesiastical centre (ibid.), having been handed over to the Church by Muircheartach O'Brien (O'Flanagan 1930, 121-127; 128-152). The town was taken out of the archbishop's control in 1218 by the Justiciar of Ireland (Bradley 1985, 45). Ten years later the new town of Cashel was returned to the control of Archbishop Marianus Ua Briain with the agreement of Henry III (ibid.). In 1250 there is a charter from Archbishop Muirin to the reeve and twelve burgesses (Cahill 1982, 8/32). Edward Bruce halted his army here in 1316 and held a Parliament at Cashel (Jackson 1957, 15-19). The town wall was built between 1319 and 1324 (Jackson 1949, 24-25). The ecclesiastical centre on the Rock of Cashel was burnt in 1647 by Murrough O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin (Op. cit., 1970, 24-25). From the 1980s onwards, a series of archaeological excavations have uncovered information about the medieval layout of the town. In 1988 a trial excavation was conducted at the town wall in the Mitchelstown Co-op complex revealed that 'a thick occupation deposit ran under the wall and may have related to a pre-walled Norman occupation or to some activity associated with the ecclesiastical settlement at the Rock of Cashel' (O'Donnell 1989, 36). A subsequent excavation in 1990 confirmed the medieval date of the wall (Stevens 1991, 51). A post-medieval four-sided sunken stone structure (c.4.3m x 3.5m ext.) was also revealed (ibid.). Other test excavations in 1990 close to the Main Street frontage, at 66-73 Main St., revealed possible house floors of probable medieval date (Hayden 1991, 51-2). Excavation in 1997 at Lower Gate Street found no evidence to suggest that there was medieval or post-medieval suburban settlement or activity outside the walled town (Henry 1998, 160). It can be surmised, in this part of Cashel, that the town wall acted as a boundary for buildings and gardens (ibid.). From April 1998 to January 1999 a new storm and foul network of pipes was laid in and around parts of the town of Cashel (Henry 2000, 190). A licence was held to monitor all ground disturbance works in association with this scheme (ibid.). Regarding The Green and Upper Green, an area of the town that is c. 40m to the south of the medieval walled town, there was no evidence to suggest the presence of extra-mural activity of medieval date (ibid. 191). Equally there was no evidence uncovered in McCann Street, a street c. 80m to the east of the walled town, to suggest that there ever was significant medieval or post-medieval activity in this part of the town (ibid.). There were no traces of earlier street patterns, strata or structures of any significant archaeological date, other than services, found on McCann Street (ibid.). It could be concluded that there was little or no tendency for the town of Cashel to expand in any large scale in an easterly or southerly direction beyond the walled town during the medieval period and in particular in the earlier part of the post-medieval period (ibid.). Another area looked at outside the walled town was Camus Road, 90m to the west of the west circuit of the walled town (ibid.). Limited evidence was found of archaeological activity (ibid.). A possible medieval cobbled surface was uncovered during pre-construction testing (ibid.). The surface was sealed with a rich, black, organic dumped material (ibid.). The findings from Camus Road, though limited, tied into those found on the lane off Camus Road (ibid.). This lane extended in a westerly direction away from the walled town and at right angles to the west of Camus Road (ibid.). There was a dense network of cobbled surfaces, one superseding the other. In most instances the surfaces were separated by medieval, dumped, organic material (ibid.). In addition to the medieval deposits and cobbled surfaces a substantial wall was uncovered in section. It was 7m long and had an average height of 0.5m (ibid.). Though of medieval date, the wall was pre-dated by organic deposits and surfaces. It was not possible to determine the function of the wall (ibid.). However, the findings from the excavation along the lane confirmed that there was extra-mural activity during the medieval and post-medieval period in this part of the town (ibid.). Evidence of early streets was uncovered: their demise, the build-up of organic material, the laying of new cobbled surfaces and a substantial medieval wall, a possible wall of a large extra-mural building (TS061-025032-) (ibid.). Colliers Lane and William Street in the centre of the town were looked at (ibid.). Both areas would have been at the heart of or close to commercial activity in the medieval market town (ibid.). Colliers Lane, though just outside the walled town, would have been close to the activities in the medieval town, and the lane is very near the Dominican Abbey (ibid.). Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of Colliers Lane was the very high level of disturbance and truncation of deposits by stone-lined culverts and dormant and live services (ibid.). Any archaeology that may have survived from the medieval and/or post-medieval period would have been destroyed by the extensive ground disturbances along this lane during the late 19th and 20th century (ibid.). William Street provided the only opportunity to see what was going on inside the medieval walled town (ibid.). It was strategically placed between two important medieval streets, John Street and Main Street, and would have extended alongside the backs of properties that fronted onto those streets and burgage plots (ibid.). Although the trench for the new pipes was quite narrow, archaeological remains of a medieval date were identified during the monitoring of construction works (ibid.). A post-medieval street surface was picked up (ibid.). It overlay two earlier surfaces, again both of post-medieval date (ibid.). The surfaces sealed dumped occupational debris of medieval date (TS061-025033-) (ibid.). The deposit was typical dumped domestic waste that is very common to medieval towns (ibid.). No structures of medieval date were uncovered along the pipeline route (ibid.). The deposits reflect typical medieval activity, the dumping and accumulation of the residue from everyday activities inside a medieval town (ibid.). The development of a site at Collier's Lane, Cashel, required an archaeological assessment (Hurley 2000, 285). The site is close to the Dominican priory (founded in 1243) and is just outside the walled town (ibid.). A number of linear features were uncovered by the excavation. Given that the Dominican priory is so close, that these lands most likely belonged to that order, and that they are known to have houses and gardens close to the abbey, it is most likely that these linear features are the drainage ditches that marked out these gardens and fields (ibid.). It is noticeable that in all editions of the OS 6-inch map of the area the site is shown as being empty except for a series of small houses or sheds fronting part of Collier's Lane (ibid.). Excavation of Cashel's medieval town wall and associated features was conducted before the construction of a library, adjacent to Friar Street (Gregory 2000, 286). The excavated area consisted of the N-S basal remains of the town wall, built c. 1265 (ibid.). The inner portion of the town wall was built on the remains of a substantial backfilled ditch (D 1.8m) that extended beyond the excavation area (ibid.). Part of a human burial was recovered from the base of this ditch. The backfill contained 13th-14th-century pottery (ibid.). It is probable that the pottery entered here during the backfilling phase. The nature of the backfill is consistent with bank material (ibid.). It is possible that this ditch and bank arrangement has some association with the nearby St John's Cathedral (ibid.). St John's Cathedral is on the site of a
TS061-025009 Castle - tower house
Description
On the SE side of Main Street, Cashel, centrally placed within the walled town (TS061-025001-). This tower house is generally known as Quirke's castle but it is historically associated with Gaelic Kearney family who were one of the leading families in Cashel up to the Cromwellian confiscations. Thomas Kearney was Alderman of Cashel in 1640. Lord Inchiquin apparently used the castle as a base for his garrison during his seige of the Rock of Cashel in 1647 and Fr. John Kearney was hanged within the tower house in 1652. The tower house (int. dims. 5.15m x 4.85m; wall T over 1m) is currently converted into a hotel and is called Grant's Castle. A five-storey high tower house with two caphouses, running NW-SE along the NE and SW walls respectively, constructed of limestone rubble roughly coursed with well-cut quoinstones and a pronounced base-batter (H c. 2.5m). The battlements have stepped crenellations with a wall-walk along the NW and SE walls with a series of drainage spouts, three of which terminate in sculpted human heads with gaping mouths. The original entrance to the towerhouse was on the street front, in the NW wall, but the mid-section of this wall up to first-floor level has been removed and a large round-headed arch inserted with a wooden and glass panelled doorway and a pseudo portcullis above. The fenestration has been somewhat altered, a large round-headed window has been inserted in the NW wall at third-floor level. At least one original single-light ogee-headed window, the other windows are simple loops lighting the spiral stair in the N angle. Much of the interior has been altered to accomodate hotel fittings but features such as the spiral staircase, embrasures and wall-cupboards remain intact. At ground-floor level the internal face of the SE wall has been robbed out. The first floor (dims. 6.18m NE-SW; 3.85m NW-SE) was entered from the spiral-stair via a pointed doorway into a short lobby, lit by a loop, and through a flat-headed doorway into the chamber. Though altered the remains of three window embrasures are discernible in the NE, NW and SW walls. The greater part of the southern end of the SE wall has been knocked through and a modern concrete window embrasure inserted. Near the S angle the head of an opening remains in situ and there is a large wall cupboard near the E angle of this SE wall. The second floor has a pointed vaulted roof with good wicker-centring, it was a loft space rather than a chamber and was only lit by a small window in the NW wall. It rested on a wooden floor, with beam-holes for the wall-plate at either end of the NW wall and was accessed from the floor below via a wooden stairs or ladder. The third floor (dims. 5.95m NE-SW; 4.75m NW-SE), entered from the spiral-stair, was probably lit by a window in each wall, the remains of embrasures are visible internally on all but the SW wall and this wall appears to have a modified window visible externally. There is a large wall-cupboard at the S end of the SE wall. The fourth floor was entered from the spiral-stair via a short passage lit by a single loop. The floor level has been raised by c. 1.2m to accommodate the hotel water tank. There are no windows at this level and like the second floor it appears to be a storage space. There is a large round-headed arched recess in the NE wall and a corbel table in the SW wall, both structural supports for the caphouse above each of these walls. The NE caphouse (Wth 1.35m) is lit by an ogee-headed window in the NE wall and the SW caphouse (Wth 0.58m) is lit by two loops in the SW wall and has a circular gun-loop in the NW wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025010 Prison
Description
In the grounds of the Super Valu supermarket, immediately SW of Wesley Square. A three-storey rectangular building (original dims. c. 23.45m E-W; 10.2m N-S; surviving L of N wall 7.6m; surviving L of S wall 11.15m), the E wall and the E end of the N and S wall of which survive. It is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with cut limestone quoins. The building originally extended further W but this was knocked and until recently was occupied by a furniture store and warehouse before the present building was built. It had also been used as a cinema at which time the interior of the E end of first-floor level was rendered with concrete. Up until the mid-20th century the site had been occupied by a Wesleyan Chapel which was built in 1833 and according to Lewis (1837, 287) this was 'a neat building…in which part of the old prison built by Edw. I [1272-1307] was incorporated'. Prior to this the E end had been used as the coach house of the Old Rock Hotel in the 19th century. The only original fenestration to survive is the flat-headed lintel and W jamb of a single-light window in the N wall at first-floor level and a flat-headed single-light window with an external chamfer in the E wall at second-floor level. There are two garderobe chute exits, one at the base of the S end of the E wall and the other at the E end of the S wall. The 19th/20th century alterations include the insertion of a doorway in the N and S wall at ground level, the insertion of two large windows in the first floor of the S wall, and one between the ground and first floor in the E wall and the reducing of the E wall to form a gable and the addition of coping stones along the N and S wall to correspond with this later roof line. At the N end of the E gable there is a half-arched recess, probably of 19th-century date as the arch is of red brick. However, there may have been an original ground-floor entrance at this location as the remains of an arched entrance are incorporated into and projecting out of the quoins at the N end of the E wall (H above ground level c. 3.25m). Excavations in 2005 revealed the full extent of the building (W wall T 1.87m) and that the ground floor was originally divided into two chambers connected by a doorway at the N end of the dividing wall (Hughes and Long 2006 Unpublished excavaton report, 8-9). A possible ground floor entrance to the westernmost chamber was identified in the N wall (Wth 1.5m) (ibid.). The entire ground floor was probably vaulted, though only the upstanding E end still retains its vault. Immediately W of the building 14th/early 15th-century burials (TS061-025060-) have been uncovered which may be associated with the prison (Lalonde 2007, 12-14). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025011 House - 18th/19th century
Description
On the NW side of Main Street, Cashel, recessed from the road. A detached seven-bay two-storey over half-basement former bishop's palace with dormer attic windows, built in 1732 and now in use as a hotel. It has two prinicipal elevations with three-bay breakfronts. It was designed by Edward Lovett Pearce for Archbishop Timothy Godwin. The house has a hipped slate roof with brick chimneystacks having decorative brick pilasters and slate-hung lower parts, dressed limestone parapet walls, carved limestone dentilated cornice, cast-iron rainwater goods and having gable-fronted dormer windows to both principal elevations. The front elevation has flemish bond red brick walls with a dressed limestone platband between floors, sill courses, dressed limestone quoins to ground floor and carved limestone string-course above rubble limestone basement walls. The limestone walls to the rear and side elevations are roughly-dressed with similar dressings to front elevation. There are timber sliding sash windows throughout, with Serlian windows to front ground-floor end bays and square-headed windows elsewhere. The front entrance doorway is approached by a flight of carved limestone steps with cast-iron railings and comprises timber panelled double doors, spoked fanlight and doorcase comprising carved limestone pilasters with carved limestone archivolt and flanked by carved limestone engaged rusticated Ionic columns with carved limestone architrave, fascia and dentillated pediment. The garden façade doorway has a flush dressed limestone surround and lintel with square-headed timber panelled double doors and overlight, approached by sweeping flight of carved limestone steps with cast-iron railings. There is a multiple-bay two-storey addition to the SW with a two-bay two-storey link to the house and with two-bay two-storey and three-bay single-storey additions to the NE. The forecourt to the building has a former school and gate lodge facing each other inside the entrance gates. The gates comprise carved limestone piers flanking vehicular and pedestrian entrances, with carved limestone caps and plinths and cast-iron gates, the latter surviving only to the pedestrian entrances. (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025012 Sheela-na-gig
Description
Currently in the basement corridor of the Cashel Palace Hotel which is on the NW side of Main Street, Cashel. This building was constructed in 1732 as a residential palace for Archbishop Timothy Godwin. The crudely executed female exhibitionist figure has a large round head with big protruding ears, a pronounced body with suggestions of a rib-cage, rudimentary legs and long arms with hands in front touching the vulva. The facial features are unclear but seem to include a broad proboscis-like nose. The figure is very lightly incised on a block of limestone (dims. 0.6m x 0.35m) which had been re-used as a quoin stone in the NE corner of the boiler house of the hotel which was constructed as Cashel Diocesan Library c. 1733. The face of the stone is dressed with diagonal tooling. The original location of the sheela-na-gig is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025013 Church
Description
On a slight rise immediately E of John Street and within a large rectangular graveyard (TS061-025035-) enclosed by a stone boundary, the SW, SE, and greater part of the NE walls of which are co-terminous with the town wall (TS061-025023-). According to Seymour (1910, 336) 'As far back as 1291 St. John's Church in Cashel is mentioned; and indeed it would seem certain that it had acted continually as the parish church of the city all through the pre-Reformation period'. The Calendar of Ormond Deeds 1463 mention that Robert Boyton, Reeve of the Town of Cashel assigned 11d per annum to be paid to the 'Parish Church of St. John the Baptist at Cashel' by William Bary, William Weyton and Donal O'Spelayn and his heirs, all of whom had been granted tenements in the town (COD III, 195). It was described as being well-slated in 1607 and in 1670 it was deemed one of eight churches in the Diocese of Cashel in fit condition for Divine Service (Seymour 1910, 336). In 1755 it was decided that due to the large number of parishioners (estimated 500), a larger church would have to be built (ibid. 337). Shortly after 1758 the old church of St. John's was demolished and on June 23rd 1763 the first stone of the new (and present) C of I cathedral was laid (ibid.). Nothing of the fabric of the former medieval church of St. John's survives above ground. The site is now occupied by an 18th-century church and library. Within the graveyard are four effigies, which are reputed to have come from the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-), and also medieval and 17th-century graveslabs. There are architectural fragments in the graveyard, some of which, together with fragments of medieval graveslabs, have been re-used in the masonry courses of the NW boundary wall and the northern corner of the NE boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025014 House - 18th/19th century
Description
On the SE side of Main Street and is set back from the streetline. It is presently called 'Bailey's' and is used as a guest-house and restaurant. It is a five bay, three-storey T-plan house (wall T 0.65m) over a vaulted basement. It is rendered with plaster and the rear of the building was formerly hung with slates. The cut limestone roof coping is still in position and the centrally placed narrow rectangular doorway approached by a series of broad limestone steps are original to the building. Internally, a number of alterations have taken place, however, the original staircase (Wth 1.1m) within the projecting central rear return remains in situ. There is a heart-shaped datestone of 1709 above the central window at first-floor level on the front elevation. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025015 Armorial plaque
Description
Incorporated into the masonry of the external face of the SE wall of the mid-19th-century Market House, in use as the Tourist Office, in the centre of Main Street, Cashel. This plaque consists of a rectangular block of cut limestone decorated with a rectangular shield with an ogee-shaped base surmounted by a crest and surrounded by mantling terminating in tassells. It bears the initials I S and M C and the date 1631 in raised lettering. The shield is impaled, the sinister containing the arms of the wife M C charged with a bend Ermine charged with five roses or other flowers between two saltires botonny. The arms on the dexter side of those of Sherlock, Per pale Argent and Azure two fleurs de lys in fess counterchanged, differenced with a crescent, the cadency mark of a second son. The crest consists of a pelican in her piety set on top of a gentleman's helmet. A similar coat-of-arms, bearing the same initials, is incorporated in the wall monument (TS061-025104-) in St. John's graveyard (TS061-025035-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025016 Armorial plaque
Description
On the first floor of the SE facade of nos. 104-105 (John Feehan's pub), in the centre of Main Street, Cashel. It is incorporated into the masonry of the building and flanks the central sash window on its W side. The latin inscription, written in plain raised script in two lines at the base of the plaque, reads: Thomas Archiepiscopus Cashelensis Aº Domini 1647. The Archbishop in question is Thomas Walsh, RC Archbishop of Cashel who was born in Waterford, educated initially for a commercial career in Lisbon and subsequently for the priesthood at the Irish College in Salamanca (Maher 1927, 15). Having served in the diocese of Waterford for twenty years, he was consecrated Archbishop in Rome on June 7th, 1626 and died and was buried in 1654 in the Church of St. James, Compostella (ibid. 16-17). The date on the plaque possibly commemorates the endowment of a building by him, as he restored and refitted many Protestant churches for Catholic worship in the relatively tolerant atmosphere immediately following the Confederation of Kilkenny (1642-49) (ibid.) (FitzPatrick 1994, 564). It may also refer to the completion of an ecclesiastical college for the town which he apparently financed in the years before the Confederacy. The plaque (dims. 0.63m x 0.48m) is executed in limestone, lightly dressed with linear tooling, with a diagonal seam of quartz running through its upper half. It is framed within a cable moulding. The shield is rectangular with an ogee-shaped base and is charged with a chevron between three broad arrowheads, points upwards. The crest comprises a cross with clover-leaf terminals surmounted by what appears to be a ring collar and a cord knotted and tasselled. According to the proprietor it was painted at one time and has since been stripped of same. Its original location is unknown but it is in its present position for at least a century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025017 Building
Description
Adjoining the rear of No. 8 Main Street. The properties on the S side of Main Street run NW-SE (described as N-S for convenience). Burke’s Lane (indicated as Maher’s Lane on the 25-inch OS map) runs from the Main Street southward, along the E side of No. 8 and the medieval building to the rear. In 1938 Joseph Raftery (National Museum of Ireland) described a 13th-century sculpted head (TS061-025083-) which was 'embedded in the wall of a castellated tower' (NMI files 1938). The head is inserted into the E wall of the building to the rear of No. 8 and this wall appears to have been largely rebuilt in 19th-century date. It also incorporates two re-used jambstones (TS061-025159-). The other side of this property is accessible from the carpark at the rear of No. 9 Main Street, and from there the W wall and W end of the S wall of the medieval building are visible. In the W end of the S wall of this building there is a blocked up medieval doorway (Wth c. 1m; H c. 1.73m; S wall H 2.77m) of which only the lower very eroded jamb survives and the W voussoirs of the doorway surround. The jamb, which is cracked and spalled, is chamfered. The doorway is 0.8m from the SW angle of the building. A later stone built building runs southward from roughly the E side of the doorway. A concrete plinth (L 2.22m N-S; Wth 1.79m; H 0.55m) occupies the angle between the medieval building and this later building. Only the ground floor of the medieval building survives (dims. N-S 9.07m; E-W c. 8m). It is roofless and functions as a yard, though against the internal E wall there is a lean-to shed, with a roof of corrugated sheeting, which occupies most of the interior. The W wall of the building (L 9.07m; Wth c. 0.8m; H 2.29m) is composed of limestone rubble roughly coursed. A wide vehicle access gate (Wth 2.79m) has been inserted mid-way along this wall, with a concrete pier on the N side and cut limestone blocks on the S side, the latter may be the remains of a window surround. Much of the N end of the wall N of the gate has an external concrete render. At some point, probably in the 18th/19th century, some of the cut-stone quoins at the SW angle were crudely rounded off. The rear of No. 8 is a two-storey building aligned N-S. In its S gable, there is a disused, centrally placed, projecting chimney, which has been truncated just below the apex of the roof. This may have functioned as the chimney for the medieval building, which would suggest that the rear of No. 8 is also medieval in date. See attached: TS061-025017-_01 Doorway in S wall and W wall, with chimney in S wall of No. 8 and rear of No. 9 and adjoining lane TS061-025017-_02 Detail of doorway at W end of S wall - exterior TS061-025017-_03 External SW angle of building TS061-025017-_04 External W wall of building TS061-025017-_05 External E wall of building (Urban Archaeological Survey, 1993) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 March 2023
TS061-025023 Town defences
Description
The outline of the town wall of Cashel has been described as an irregular heart-shaped area, the circumference of which is a little over a mile in length enclosing approximately 28 acres. The unusual complexity of its shape has been attributed to the need to accommodate the lands of the pre-existing Franciscan (TS061-025008-) and Dominican (TS061-025007-) friaries. The promotion of Cashel to the status of a borough is attributed to Archbishop Donat O'Lonargan (1216-1223) who apparently gave burgage tenements to the burgesses, reserving to the see a yearly rent of twelve pence out of each burgage (Finn 1930, 5). About fourteen years later Archbishop Marianus O'Brien (1224-1238) issued a charter to the reeve and 12 burgesses (Chart. privil. immun., ed. 1889, 21). There is evidence to suggest that Cashel received a murage grant for four years in 1303 (Thomas 1992, 47). An additional grant for five years was furnished on 30th February 1319 (ibid.). It has been suggested that the new town had reached the extent delimited by the town wall before c. 1265 (Bradley 1985, 45). On 20th July 1378 Cashel was exempted from paying murage at Clonmel, most likely because this toll was already being collected within Cashel. The records of Cashel Corporation between 1673 and 1773 mention at least five gates - Moor or Our Lady's gate to the N; the E gate variously called Canopy Gate, Upper Gate and Dublin Gate; St. John's and Friar Gate to the S; and the W gate variously called West Gate, Lower Gate and St. Nicholas' Gate (Thomas 1992, 47). In 1677 fortifications which had been erected in the area of Canopy Gate during Inchiquin's seige were deemed dangerous '...and a great impediment to the passage through the said gate for coaches, wagons and all sorts of carriages'. Another reference from the Corporation Book for the same year notes that gates have to be repaired and recommends that a 'little tottering tower in the south corner of St. John's churchyard, being ready to fall, be pulled down...and the corner...be firmly built up with lime and stone, suitable to the rest of the city wall'. In 1702 the inhabitants of the suburbs without Canopy gate were granted permission to block up the said gate and create a new one -'provided that the new and enlarged passage be secured with 'stone and good mortar' and in 1732 it was decided to take down Lower Gate on the W side of the town as it was apparently dangerous to passengers. By the late 18th century the same records tell us that the walls and gates were long since fallen into decay. Although its line can be traced through the use of 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps and to a large extent follows the townland boundary, only ten fragmentary lengths including the NW, SW and SE corners, in varying condition, are now extant, and none of the gates mentioned in the Corporation records survive. The wall (max. H 6.4m; max. T 3m) is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with occasional sandstone. Gregory's (2000, 286) excavation of the town wall revealed how the wall was constructed with mortar-bonded, dressed, inner and outer faces with a central fill of small stones and mortar. The wall has a pronounced base-batter (H 2.9m; Wth 0.3m) and there is evidence of a wall-walk at the SW angle. The best preserved continuous portion of the wall is in the southern sector, particularly the SW angle and its extension eastwards to St. John's C of I graveyard (TS061-025035-), the boundary of which is co-terminous with the town wall. In the NW sector there is a well-preserved sally port or postern gate in the thickness of the base-batter. It comprises a spilt-level round-headed arched passage (H 2m; D 3.1m; Wth 2.25m). The inner and outer arches of the postern are faced with cut wedge-shaped limestone voussoirs. The soffit of the lower inner arch bears impressions of plank centering while the slightly higher outer arch soffit reveals remains of wicker-centering. Another sallyport with 'gothic mouldings' is believed to have existed in the SW corner of the town wall (Wyse-Jackson 1949, 24), in the stretch of wall which is visible externally in the Hospital grounds, though no evidence of this is now visible. There is a mural tower at the NW angle and another was located at the SE angle (Gregory 2004, 474). A number of archaeological excavations have revealed that there was a town fosse (Wth 3.6m-c. 6m; D 0.9-4m) running parallel to sections of the town wall (O'Donovan 1997, 100; Gregory 2000, 286). An excavation N of the hospital grounds revealed a large intramural fosse (L c. 18m; Wth 2.5-3.2m; D c. 1.1m) which ran roughly parallel to the town wall, 5-6m from it (O'Donnell 2004, 475). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025025 House - medieval
Description
A building, at least three-storeys high, of limestone rubble, roughly coursed. Only a portion of the SW wall (L 4.2m visible) survives incorporated into, but projecting from, the NE gable end of Bank Place which also forms the SW yard wall of 1 Canopy St. The building extended NE from the SW wall, the NE side of the surviving walling being an internal face. A modern one-storey extension has been built onto the rear of 1 Canopy St. and is built against the SE end of the SW wall of the earlier building. Features at ground-floor level include towards the SE end a wall-cupboard (max. Wth 0.67; D 0.4m) incorporated into the modern kitchen extension. Further NW there is a blocked opening, probably a window embrasure (Wth 1.33m; H 1.6m), as there appears to be a slight internal splay and it is above floor level. It has cut limestone surrounds. The depressed arched voussoirs for this embrasure are recessed in the wall, as is the wall itself above the embrasure feature. The recess (D 0.17-0.19m) may have been an offset to carry a wooden floor but it would seem more likely, and there is a slight indication, that a vault may have sprung from the wall at the level of the top of the embrasure. At first-floor level, towards the SE end, there is a crudely blocked opening (Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 1.2m) which would appear to be a doorway. It has cut limestone surrounds, some of which are broken. The third floor was carried on a wooden floor, two of the corbels support for which are projecting from the SW wall. Both are limestone corbels with margin tooling and punch-dressing. The most south-easterly is in better condition though the lower edge is broken away, the corbel to the NW is quite broken. Approximately 2m above the corbels there is a slight offset which appears to have a band of thin coping stones, this may be the surviving height of the original wall. The wall continues above this for another 0.8-1m but this is probably later in date, contemporary with number 9 Bank Place. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025030 House - medieval
Description
Excavation in 1996 fronting onto the E side of Friar Street revealed significant archaeological deposits which appear to survive in situ (O'Donovan 1997, 100). The presence of medieval pottery in association with organic deposits, possibly clay floors and burning, is suggestive of medieval domestic activity (habitation) fronting onto Friar Street (ibid.). Further excavations in 1997 revealed a rectangular post built house (Wth 4.6m NE-SW; total L not established; excavated L 5.8m NW-SE) aligned with its long axis fronting onto the street which ran NW-SE (O'Donovan 2001, 23-33). The house was entered from the street front and has a paved central aisle which ran from the door NE through the building to the rear fo the house (ibid. 28). The hearth was lcoated in the centre of the SE end of the building, equidistant from the front and rear walls (ibid.). Internal post and stake holes were aligned NE-SW between the paved aisle and the hearth, forming an internal division within the building adjacent to the fireside (ibid. 28-9). The roof was supported on four substantial post holes located along the central NE-SW axis of the house with auxiliary roof supports in the NE and SW walls, providing a ridge-pole roof (ibid. 29). Finds and a radio-carbon sample date this house broadly to the 14th century A.D. (ibid. 30), when the house appears to have been constructed and after occupation to have been destroyed by fire (ibid. 33). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 July 2014
TS061-025031 Well
Description
Excavation in 1996 on the E side of Friar Street revealed a well thought to be of 17th-century date (O'Donovan 1997, 100). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 July 2014
TS061-025035 Graveyard
Description
On a slight rise immediately E of John Street, a large rectangular graveyard associated with the medieval parish church of St. John (TS061-025013-). It is enclosed by a stone boundary, the SW, SE, and greater part of the NE walls of which are co-terminous with the town wall (TS061-025023-). In 2000 an archaeological excavation in Agar's Lane, which was created in 1784, revealed 13th/14th-century burials indicating that the graveyard originally extended further N than the present boundary (Gregory 2002, 312-13). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025038 Structure
Description
Limited excavations in 2001 on Friar St revealed the foundation level of a possible medieval structure beneath the footpath, c. 40m from Main Street and on its south-western side (Gregory 2003, 379). It measured 2.2m in length, ran parallel to the existing street frontage and protruded from it for 0.4m. The wall comprised two courses of dressed limestone and lime mortar-bonded stone. Works in the past had disturbed the north-western part of this structure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025039 Building
Description
Excavation in 2001 to the rear of 29 Main Street revealed a building which was rectangular or subrectangular (with only one corner in the trench, and that damaged by a later pit) (Pollack 2003, 380). It may have been walled with unsupported clay (no wicker frame) or with a timber frame resting on the ground. It was not aligned with the present Main Street. It was superceded by a second building (TS061-025040-) and then a third building (TS061-025041-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025040 Building
Description
Excavation in 2001 to the rear of 29 Main Street revealed a building which was timber-framed on a mortared and clay-bonded stone footing c. 0.4m high (Pollack 2003, 380). Part of the roof was slated. This building aligned neatly with the present Main Street, and was replaced in time with another building (TS061-025041-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025041 Building
Description
Excavation in 2001 to the rear of 29 Main Street revealed a building with mortared stone walls (Pollack 2003, 380). The later building, potentially stone-walled and perhaps post-medieval, was provided at some stage with a cesspit (TS061-025059-) (ibid.). This building was preceded by two building (TS061-025039- and TS061-025040-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025043 Architectural fragment
Description
Incorporated into the SW angle of 29 Main Street, Cashel where two architectural fragments, projecting from the W face, have been reused as quoinstones. The upper fragment is a large chamfered limestone door jamb with punch dressed. The lower fragment (TS061-025084-) is a large limestone corbel inserted on its side. The original location of these fragments of medieval stonework is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 November 2015
TS061-025047 Architectural fragment
Description
Located at the rear of 97 Main Street (Back of the Pipes), not in situ, but apparently was originally incorporated in the rear of the building. Lintel or sill of two-light mullioned window with square glazing-bar holes at the centre of each light. Limestone window fragment, chamfered externally. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 November 2015
TS061-025050 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Archaeological excavations in 1997 revealed a number of pits and isolated features, such as post holes (O'Donovan 2001, 21). The pits appear to have been utilised for a variety of functions such as to obtain clay for house building or pottery manufacture and subsequently filled with rubbish and human waste (21-22). The finds from these features suggests that they date to the late 12th/early 13th century (22). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025051 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Archaeological excavations in 1997 revealed a stone wall (L 7m; Wth 1.6m; surviving H 0.3m), two parallel post rows (L 4.75m), a linear trench (L 5.3m; Wth 0.25-0.8m; D 0.25-0.6m) and a circular pit (diam. 1.13m; D 0.56m) (O'Donovan 2001, 35-7). The wall, orientated NW-SE has been interpreted as a possible boundary wall between Friar Street and the property along its E side (O'Donovan 2001, 37). The linear trench and two parallel post rows are also interpreted as possible property boundaries orientated NE-SW, the latter signifying a narrowing of the street (ibid. 37-8). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025052 House - 17th century
Description
Archaeological excavations in 1997 revealed a stone house (dims. 14m NE-SW x 7.4m NW-SE) (O'Donovan 2001, 38-45). The house was constructed with its narrow gable end fronting onto Friar St (ibid. 40). The wall foundations were c. 1m wide suggesting a building two to three storeys high (ibid.). The finds suggest a construction date between the late 16th/early 17th century, the house being continually occupied until its demolition in 1929 to facilitate the construction of a convent (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025053 Building
Description
In 1999 a limited archaeological excavation behind 100 Main Street revealed evidence of a building of at least 16th/17th-century date with an internal well (TS061-025054-) (Pollock 2000, 286). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025054 Well
Description
In 1999 a limited archaeological excavation behind 100 Main Street revealed a domestic well within a building (TS061-023053-) of at least 16th/17th-century date. The well was found c. 15m from the street front (Pollock 2000, 286). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025055 Well
Description
A well was revealed during an archaeological excavation at Bank Place. It is stone-lined, roughly circular in plan (dims. 0.8m x 0.84m) and constructed of undressed limestone blocks, possibly earth bonded. The well shaft was excavated to 0.5m below the present ground surface (O'Donnell 2000, unpublished). There was no dating evidence for this well which may be pre-1700 in date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025056 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Two pits, one cutting into the other, were revealed during an archaeological excavation at Bank Place in 2001 (Hurley and O'Donnell 2001, unpublished report). One large sub-circular pit (dims. 2.66m N-S; 2.58m E-W; D 2.25m), filled with mostly organic material and some clay, was partially excavated (ibid.). Finds included pottery of mid 13th to mid 14th century date. This pit was cut by another sub-circular pit (D 0.92m) filled with ash, organic material and charcoal, which was only partially excavated (ibid.). It was interpreted as a general dumping area, perhaps close to some domestic buildings or an industrial site (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025057 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
An irregular, steep-sided pit (dims. 1.84m N-S; 0.93-1.15m E-W; D 1.22m) was revealed during an archaeological excavation at Bank Place in 2001 (Hurley and O'Donnell 2001, unpublished report). It was filled with some redeposited natural containing organic material such as straw, reeds and twigs, fish and animal bone and sherds of pottery of mid 13th to mid 14th century date (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025058 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Excavation in 2001 to the rear of 29 Main Street revealed a building (TS061-025041-) with mortared stone walls (Pollack 2003, 380). The building, potentially stone-walled and perhaps post-medieval, was provided at some stage with a cesspit (TS061-025059-) (ibid.) and associated pit, which may have been a tanning pit (Pollock 2001, 6). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025059 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Excavation in 2001 to the rear of 29 Main Street revealed a building (TS061-025041-) with mortared stone walls (Pollack 2003, 380). The building, potentially stone-walled and perhaps post-medieval, was provided at some stage with a cesspit (TS061-025059-) and associated pit (TS061-025058-) (Pollock 2001, 6). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025060 Burial ground
Description
In the grounds of the Super Valu supermarket, immediately SW of Wesley Square, with a medieval building (TS061-025010-), possibly a prison built during the reign of Edward I (1271-1306), located to the E. During archaeological excavations in 2005 three burials along with a quantity of disarticulated bone were uncovered. The minimum number of burials represented is nine, of which four are male and one female. One of the burials yielded a radiocarbon date of 1306-1425 AD which suggests that the burial ground was associated with the medieval prison. The full extent of the burial ground was not determined. (Lalonde 2007, 12-14). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 August 2014
TS061-025083 Stone head
Description
Incorporated in the SW boundary wall of Burke's Lane which itself runs NW-SE at a right angle to the S side of Main Street, Cashel. This late 13th/early 14th-century limestone head was identified in 1938 (OPW files) and is 3.1m above the present ground level. It is more accurately described as a bust (L 0.4m) as it includes the head, neck and a small portion of the shoulders and chest of a male figure. It is possible that it is all that remains of a former full-length tomb effigy. The facial features include oval-shaped eyes, a straight mouth and a badly-chipped nose and chin. The curling hair falls just below the ears and is not unlike the hairstyle of the man portrayed on the head-slab (TS061-025079-) in the Vicar's Choral on the Rock of Cashel. The man is wearing a large ring-brooch centrally placed on his chest. This feature is quite similar to the ring brooches worn by two of the Hackett female effigies in the grounds of the church of St. John the Baptist. Both of these effigies are dated by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 224) to the late 13th/early 14th century. See attached photograph - Urban Archaeological Survey, 1993 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 August 2014
TS061-025084 Architectural fragment
Description
Incorporated into the SW angle of 29 Main Street, Cashel where two architectural fragments, projecting from the W face, have been reused as quoinstones. The upper fragment is a large chamfered limestone door jamb with punch dressed. The lower fragment (TS061-025084-) is a large limestone corbel inserted on its side. The original location of these fragments of medieval stonework is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 November 2015
TS061-025085 Architectural fragment
Description
In the yard of Cashel Folk Museum, on the W side of Chapel Lane there are nine sandstone architectural fragments. The fragments are chamfered and rebated and originally functioned as window jambs. The jambs have been crudely reassembled in a masonry wall to form a window. The fragments came from the convent grounds which is on the site of the franciscan friary (TS061-025008-). Some of the fragments are dressed with diagonal tooling. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025086 Tomb - effigial (present location)
Description
Set into a limestone niche at the E end of the NE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). This effigy of an unknown woman has been described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223; vol. 2, fig. 26) who has dated this tomb to the late 13th/early 14th century. The effigy of the Hackett knight (TS061-025078-) within this graveyard was reputedly from the Hackett chapel in the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223) c. 100m to the NE, as was, in all probability, the effigy of the Hackett lady (TS061-025088-). Of the Hackett chapel, Wadding (1734, 47) states that 'Many tombs of the founders and other families were then to be seen' (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5). It is possible that this effigy, along with one other (TS061-025087-) in the graveyard also came from the Franciscan friary rather than the medieval church of St. John (TS061-025013----) which was replaced by the existing cathedral. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 December 2011
TS061-025087 Tomb - effigial (present location)
Description
Set into a limestone niche at the S end of the SE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). This effigy of an unknown woman has been described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223; vol. 2, fig. 28) who has dated this tomb to the late 13th/early 14th century. The effigy of the Hackett knight (TS061-025078-) within this graveyard was reputedly from the Hackett chapel in the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223) c. 100m to the NE, as was, in all probability, the effigy of the Hackett lady (TS061-025088-). Of the Hackett chapel, Wadding (1734, 47) states that 'Many tombs of the founders and other families were then to be seen' (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5). It is possible that this effigy, along with one other (TS061-025086-) in the graveyard also came from the Franciscan friary rather than the medieval church of St. John (TS061-025013----) which was replaced by the existing cathedral. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 December 2011
TS061-025088 Tomb - effigial (present location)
Description
Set into a limestone niche at the S end of the SE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). This effigy appears to be that of a Hackett lady as there is an inscription along the top of the sinister side which reads: IO…HACK…ETT IL…ALI (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223). The effigy is described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223; vol. 2, fig. 27) who has dated this tomb to the late 13th/early 14th century. As with the nearby effigial tomb (TS061-025078-) of a Hackett knight, this tomb probably come from the 'Hackett Chapel' of the nearby Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-). Of the Hackett chapel, Wadding (1734, 47) states that 'Many tombs of the founders and other families were then to be seen' (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 December 2011
TS061-025089 Tomb - chest tomb
Description
Lying in the gravel kerb immediately S of the S angle of St. John the Baptist and St. Patrick's Rock C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A limestone panel (L 1.88m; Wth 0.7m; T 0.2m) which is quite worn and spawled in places. The decorative scheme is divided into three scenes, each within a round-headed frame defined by fluted columns. The central scene is the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross flanked by a figure on either side. The cross rests on a skull and cross-bones. The dexter frame contains symbols of the Passion, including a ladder, spear, pincers, hamer, robe and scourging pillar. The sinister scene is badly eroded, though a cock is clearly visible under the apex of the arched frame. There is an inscription between the dexter and central scene and the badly eroded suggestion of an inscription between the central and sinister scence. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025090 Graveslab
Description
Lying in the gravel kerb immediately S of the S angle of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A large rectangular limestone slab (L 2.39m; Wth 0.87m; T 0.1m) which is split the length of the dexter side (0.28m from the edge) and split beneath the arm of the sinister side to the base. The lower sinister corner (L 0.79m; Wth 0.3m) has split from the main slab. The slab is decorated with a full-length cross with a crown-of-thorns head, and cross arms terminating in fleur de-lys terminals, executed in relief. Under the cross arms there is an IHS monogram on the dexter side and what is possibly a winged cherub on the sinister side. The shaft terminates in a Calvary mount bearing a skull-and-crossbones. The dexter and sinister upper corners are decorated with crescent moon and sun, repectively, while the dexter and sinister bottom corner panels contain heater-shaped shields, the dexter one of which is charged with clover-leaf crosses on either side of a dexter bend. The border of the slab bears a badly eroded latin inscription in gothic lettering. There is no date visible. This slab appears to be that which was transcribed by FitzGerald (1902, vol. 5, 248) as: EDMUNDUS GELIDO JACET HOC / SUB MARMORE SAULUS, CHARAQUE KATHRINAE CONJUGIS OSSA JACENT. ELLE SIBI UXORIQUE PIAE PROLIQUE SEPUL / CHRUM CONDIDIT HOC MORTIS PRAE / VIASQUE . . AD SUAE . . DUBIT AC FRAGILIS VITAE MONUMENTA FUERI. vIVES UT AETERNOS POSSIT ADIRE POLOS. Ao. 1630 and translates as, 'Beneath this cold stone lie Edmund Sall, and the loved remains of his wife Katherine. He while living erected this tomb for himself, his dear wife, and their family, to be memorials of the frailty of this life (?). Live so that you may attain to heaven eternal. [Erected] in the year 1630'. According to FitzGerald (ibid.) 'The shields bear (1) a bend dexter between two saltires with shamrock finials; and (2) the arms of Salle of Cashel (as registered in Ulster's Office), a portcullis, and stag's antlers...Under these are the initials K. C. and K. S.'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 31 January 2012
TS061-025091 Graveslab
Description
Lying in the gravel kerb immediately S of the S angle of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A tapering recumbent limestone slab (L 1.96m; Wth 0.5m) with chamfered sides. It is decorated with a seven armed with fleur-de-lys terminals. A plain horizontal bar crosses the shaft under the cross head and above the curving pillar cross base. There is a raised border around the perimeter of the slab, however, no inscription or date is visible. The sinister edge appears to be missing as there is no chamfer on this edge and two arm terminals are also missing on this side (Maher 1997, 69). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025092 Graveslab
Description
Lying in the gravel kerb immediately S of the S angle of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A recumbent limestone rectangular slab (L 2.07m; Wth 0.88m), embedded in the ground. This slab is either very badly eroded or may be lying face down as there is no decoration or inscription visible. The slab appears to be re-used as there is a later inscription towards the base. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 25 July 2012
TS061-025093 Graveslab
Description
Lying in the gravel kerb immediately S of the S angle of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A large badly eroded limestone rectangular slab (L 2.48m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.06m). It is decorated at its upper end with a centrally placed coat of arms. The shield appears to be charged with three fleur-de-lys. The mantling is quite elaborate and there is a scroll at its base which once possibly bore a motto. The bottom of the slab is decorated with a skull-and-crossbones within a swag. The upper dexter and sinister corners of the slab contain winged cherub heads, the best preserved of which is that on the dexter side. Some lettering is visible but not decipherable at the centre of the slab, however, there is no date visible. This slab appears be the same as described by FitzGerald (1902, vol. 5, 247) as being the first of the slabs 'placed as an edging to the gravel path on the south side of this Cathedral', with an inscription beneath a coat-of-arms. He transcribed the inscription as: HERE LYETH THE / BODY OF YE REVEREND MR IOHN HICKEY ARCH /DEACON OF EMLY WHO / DEPARTED THIS LIFE / SEPTERMBER YE 14TH 1726 / AGED 60 YEARS (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 31 January 2012
TS061-025094 Graveslab
Description
Lying E of the entrance to the Bolton Library within the graveyard (TS061-025035-) of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). This limestone slab (L 2.52m; Wth 1.19m; D 0.1m) has split lengthwise 0.125m from the dexter side and 0.19m from the sinister side with a further horizontal break on the lower sinister side (L 0.66m). The head of the slab is also broken in the sinister corner. It is decorated in low relief with an interlace cross with three fleur-de-lys arm terminals. Under the cross-head, on either side of the cross-shaft there is a heraldic shield, the dexter a portcullis over stag's antlers with the initials G. S. beneath; the sinister a lion rampant with the initials M. C. above. The cross-shaft, consisting of four parallel raised lines, rests on a curving calvary mount with a skull and bone within. An latin inscription in black letter script runs along the the top and dexter border and continues in two lines at the base of the slab, beneath the calvary mount. FitzGerald (1902, vol. 5, 249) provides a sketch with a transcription which reads: HIC JACENT GALFRIDUS SALL PATRICII FILIUS ET / MARGARETA CORCRAN EIUS UXOR, CIVES CASSELLEN QUI MORTALITATIS HUMANAE MEMORES HOC MONU / MENTU SIBI POSTERISQUE ADHUC DIU EXTRU / XERUT ANNO SALUTIS _ OBIIT ILLE DIE _ ANNO DMI 1622 AETATIS VERO SUAE _ ILLA _ Ao DMI _ / AETATIS SUAE. Garstin (ibid. 248) translates this as, 'Here lie Geoffrey Sall (son of Patrick) and Margaret Corcran his wife, citizens of Cashel, who, mindful of human mortality [whilst living?], constructed this monument for themselves [or himself?], in the year of salvation _ [blank]. He died on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 1622, in the [blank] year of his age. She in the [blank] year of our Lord, and the [blank] of her age'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 31 January 2012
TS061-025095 Wall monument
Description
On the W side of the entrance to the Bolton Library within the graveyard (TS061-025035-) of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). This headless, limestone figure (H 0.76m) is likely to have been a component of a 17th-century wall monument. The figure is that of a woman in an attitude of prayer with hands, though broken, raised and joined at the breast. She is wearing a pleated gown with wide skirt over a shirt or doublet with padded and ruffed sleeves and narrow ruched projecting collar. It is currently resting on a graveslab (TS061-025155-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025096 Graveslab
Description
Incorporated into the internal face of the upper masonry course of the NW wall of St. John's graveyard (TS061-025035-), towards the W end of the wall. The graveyard encloses St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). A fragment of a sandstone medieval graveslab (dims. 0.35m x 0.22m) decorated with a curving incised line. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025097 Graveslab
Description
Incorporated into the retaining wall of a flower bed running inside and parallel to the NW boundary wall of St. John's graveyard (TS061-025035-). The graveyard encloses St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). The lower half of a tapering limestone medieval graveslab (dims. 0.27m x 0.27m), broken along the sinister edge, is decorated with an incised cross shaft with scrolled terminal. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025098 Graveslab
Description
Incorporated as a voussoir in the internal face of a blocked carriage arch entrance at the N angle of St. John's graveyard (TS061-025035-). The graveyard encloses St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). A rectangular block of limestone (L c. 0.25m) which is a border fragment from a graveslab and is inscribed in latin in black letter script. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025099 Architectural fragment
Description
Incorporated into the upper masonry courses of the N angle on the external face of the NW boundary wall of St. John's graveyard (TS061-025035-) with Ager's Lane. The graveyard encloses St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). A chamfered limestone jambstone (dims. 0.70m x 0.26m) with a plain stop. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025101 Font
Description
In the interior of St. John's C of I Cathedral, at the NE end of the nave, immediately S of the chancel. The cathedral is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-), however, the font was moved here from St John's in Kilkenny. This square limestone font (dims 0.71m x 0.71m; H 0.43m) is chamfered at the angles and around the base. The bowl (diam. 0.58m; D 0.2m) is circular and straight-sided with a flat-bottomed base with a shallow circular depression (diam. 0.16m) around the central drainage hole (diam. 0.05m). Each of the external faces of the font is decorated in relief with eleven round-headed flutes. The pedestal on which the fonts stands is modern and consists of five circular limestone columns. The columns rest on the upper dexter portion of a reused graveslab (TS061-025102-) which was originally larger but has been machine cut to form its present shape. The 15th-century font (TS043-034010-) at Kilcooley Abbey has similar fluting on one side. See attached photographs: TS061-025102-_01 Overview of font and graveslab from S TS061-025102-_02 Overview of font and graveslab from SW TS061-025102-_03 Overview of basin of font Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 26 January 2022
TS061-025102 Graveslab
Description
In the interior of St. John's C of I Cathedral, at the NE end of the nave, immediately S of the chancel. The cathedral is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-). A graveslab reused as the pedestal for a medieval font (TS061-025101-) which was moved here from St John's in Kilkenny. The pedestal consists of the upper dexter portion (dims 0.88m x 0.88m; H 0.21m) of a reused limestone graveslab. This graveslab was originally much larger, but has been machine cut along the sinister side and base to form its present square shape. It is bears an incised latin inscription 'hic jacet' in black letter script. See attached photographs: TS061-025102-_01 Over view of font and graveslab from S TS061-025102-_02 Graveslab from NW TS061-025102-_03 Detail of incised cross and inscription on graveslab TS061-025102-_04 Detail of inscription on graveslab with scale TS061-025102-_05 Detail of incised cross with scale TS061-025102-_06 Detail of incised cross with scale Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025103 Graveslab
Description
Lying in the gravel immediately S of the S angle of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-) and within its graveyard (TS061-025035-). A limestone slab (Wth 0.33m; L 0.49m; D 0.13m) which is decorated with a seven-armed cross in relief, the arms are encircled by a ring, however, the edges of the slab appear to be broken off as there are no terminals evident. There is an inner circle at the centre of the cross which contains a six-petalled flower. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025104 Wall monument
Description
Attached to the wall at the S side of the front elevation of St. John's C of I Cathedral which is on the site of a medieval church (TS061-025013-), near the SW angle. The remains of this limestone monument comprises five individual pieces which may not be contemporary or originally from the one monument. The components include a broken panel (L 0.65m; H 0.55m; D 0.25m) decorated with the Passion of Christ, an inscribed fragment from a graveslab (L 0.52m; H 0.12m) and a coat of arms (L 0.55m. H 0.61m) flanked by two individually cut volute brackets. It rests on a tiered limestone corner plinth. The panel, which surmounts the monument, is more likely to have been at the base of the monument originally or may have come from a separate altar tomb. The dexter and sinister edges of the panel are missing. The central figure, that of Christ on the cross, rests on a skull and cross-bones representing Golgotha. The figures on either side are rather crudely executed and are within raised rectangular panels. That on the sinister side may be Our Lady with her hands clasped, holding a Rosary, while the figure on the dexter side may be St. John. On either side of the figures there are floral motifs, the sinister side is better preserved and appears to depict a tree blossoming with flowers. The graveslab fragment is part of a 16th/17th graveslab border and contains the word 'HIC', meaning 'Here', the start of a latin inscription in raised black letter script. The armorial plaque consists of a rectangular block of cut limestone decorated with a heater-shaped shield surmounted by a crest and surrounded by mantling terminating in two four-looped knots with tassels. The shield is impaled, the sinister containing the arms of the wife M C charged with a bend decorated with rosettes alternating with trefoils slipped, between two clover-leaf crosses. The dexter contains the arms of the husband I S impaled and the crescent moon is placed above the two fleur-de-lys. The coat of arms is almost identical to that on the Market House marriage-stone (TS061-025015-), dated 1631, and bears the same initials, I S and M C. The crest consists of a pelican in her piety issuing from a gentleman's helm. The arms of the volute brackets, of which the dexter is better preserved, are decorated with a continuous leaf pattern and the area inside the brackets is decorated with a blossoming plant, mirroring the theme on the altar panel. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-025106 Sheela-na-gig (present location)
Description
A sheela-na-gig was found in 1989 during an SES graveyard clean up scheme in the E end of the graveyard (TS046-048004-) at Clonoulty Churchquarter where a medieval church (TS046-048001-) was located on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. It is described by Freitag (2004, 130) as a figure 'Carved on irregular slab [H 0.71m; Wth 0.35m]; head so damaged that no facial features survive; traces of a necklace at base of neck; ribs clearly indicated. Left arm behind left leg with fingers appearing from under thigh; right arm reaching down to vulva in front of body with hands gripping large slit-vulva. Squatting pose, legs widely splayed and bent at knees, feet turned outwards'. The back and sides (T 0.24m) of the carved stone are very crudely dressed. It is currently located in the Bolton Library in Cashel. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 July 2012
TS061-025155 Graveslab
Description
Lying recumbent W of the entrance to the Bolton library which is in the grounds of the graveyard (TS061-025035-) of the medieval church (TS061-025013-), the later replaced by St John's C of I Cathedral. A rectangular limestone slab (L 1.99m; Wth 0.79m) with a horizontal break across the face c. 1.5m from the top. Though no 17th-centuy inscription is visible, an incised inscription in Roman script south of the centre of the slab reads: HIC JACET CORPUS / REV IN CHRISTO PATRIS THOMAE PRICE / NUP CASSEL ARCHIEP/ QUI OBIIT / PRID NON AUG 1685 / AET 85 and at the bottom of the slab, on the sinister side, is inscribed 'RESCRIPT 1875'. Under this date another date '1965' has been added. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 July 2012
TS061-025158 Architectural fragment
Description
Incorporated as a quoin stone in the SW boundary wall of Burke's Lane which itself runs NW-SE at a right angle to the S side of Main Street, Cashel. Inserted on its side, third quoin from the base of the wall. Limestone jamb (dims. 0.28m x 0.37m) with a hollow chamfer, originally vertical, terminating in a broach stop. Also in this wall there is a late 13th/early 14th-century limestone head (TS061-025083-) and another architectural fragment (TS061-025159-). The original location of this architectural fragment is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 July 2015
TS061-025159 Architectural fragment
Description
Incorporated in the SW boundary wall of Burke's Lane which itself runs NW-SE at a right angle to the S side of Main Street, Cashel. Inserted on its side, towards the SE end of the wall, fifth course from the base. Limestone chamfered jamb (dims. 0.56m x 0.17m) with runout stop. Also in this wall there is a late 13th/early 14th-century limestone head (TS061-025083-) and another architectural fragment (TS061-025158-). The original location of this architectural fragment is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 July 2015
TS061-025160 House - 16th/17th century
Description
A terraced two-bay three-storey building at 91 Main St. (Back of the Pipes) with chimney of the NE gable. The front of the building has a 19th-century façade with a doorway and shop at ground-floor level and a further doorway providing access to the upper floors. The upper floors have camber-arch window openings with floating moulded cornices. Visible on the rear wall (NW wall), at first level, towards the W side, there is a single-light window with a limestone surround and hood-moulding (with no drop label). Also, there is a large chimney projecting from the rear wall which is truncated at second-floor level. The chimney rises on corbels at ground level, the whole being covered in a cement render. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 November 2015
TS061-146 Standing stone (present location)
Description
Formerly situated c. 3km SSW of Cashel in Ballinree townland (see TS060-119----). According to the landowner the standing stone was removed c. 20 years ago as a result of field clearance. The stone (0.74m x 0.24m; H 2.14m) is currently embedded in a concrete floor in the interior of the Cashel Folk Museum. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
TS061-178 Bullaun stone (present location)
Description
Currently housed in Cashel Folk Museum. This bullaun stone was found in Kilshane townland where there is a medieval church (TS067-036----) and graveyard (TS067-036001-). The precise original location is unknown. The bullaun consists of a roughly round-shaped sandstone and quartz conglomerate boulder (dims 0.72m x0.72m; D 0.45m) with a deep circular depression (diam. 0.38m; D 0.29m) to one side of the boulder. The side of the depression nearest the edge has broken away, reducing the depth of the depression to 0.04m. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 October 2013

Architectural heritage

Cashel Courthouse, court house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached courthouse, built c.1910, comprising two-storey central block with three-bay side elevations, highly articulated entrance front with three-bay ground floor and central window over, flanked by recessed single-storey blocks having multiple-bay side and single-bay front elevations. Flat roofs with cast-metal lantern and rendered chimneystacks to main block, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered stepped parapets to front elevation with render copings, carved limestone cornices and render eaves courses. Rendered walls with render string courses and plinth, render quoins flanking ground floor openings to central block and shallow render pilasters to outer corners of side blocks and flanking window and render panels to first floor. Carved limestone plaque, with lettering 'Cashel Courthouse', to central parapet. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows having render panels to front block. Large round-headed window with small-pane fixed timber windows, having spoked fanlight and moulded render surround. Lunette openings to upper level of side elevations having fixed timber windows with moulded render surrounds. Square-headed door openings to front elevation of middle and side blocks with timber panelled doors, double-leaf to centre, this latter having fluted consoles bearing cornice doubling as sill to first floor window. Limestone steps, over-lights and moulded render surrounds to doorways, having cast-iron boot-scrapes to middle doorway.
School, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former technical school, built 1932, with three-bay end elevations and windbreak to front elevation having render cornice. Hipped slate roof with copper roof vent, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Painted rendered walls, roughcast to first floor, with render plinth, render plat-bands to ends of first floor elevation, render string course between floors and louvered vents under windows. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, render surrounds and timber windows. Square-headed door opening with part-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door, over-light and sidelights with limestone sills and timber casement and fixed timber windows.
Cashel Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey Garda station, built 1927. Sprocketed hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, banded to ground floor, with render plinth. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows, openings originally tripartite to ground floor. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled doors, dressed limestone surrounds and plinth blocks with carved limestone cornices above. Enamelled Garda Síochána plaque and cast-iron lamp, with emblem, above main doorway.
Cashel Post Office, post office, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited post office, built 1934, comprising three-bay single-storey block to west (Main Street) and four-bay single-storey block to north (Hogan Square) meeting at two-storey corner-sited entrance tower with single-bay elevations. Flat roofs with dressed limestone cornices to tower and west block and having pitched artificial slate roof to north block with cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed limestone eaves course. Flemish bond red brick walls with dressed limestone plinth to sill level and having vertical limestone plat-bands to tower. Round-headed window openings with dressed limestone voussoirs and keystones, dressed limestone sills and having fixed timber windows. Serlian window to side elevation of tower with cut limestone surround. Square-headed loop windows with limestone sills to first floor and flanking entrance in front elevation of tower, having fixed timber windows and with timber louvers to first floor. Square-headed openings to north block with limestone sills and barred fixed timber windows. Square-headed door opening with stepped-profile dressed limestone surround, cut limestone steps and timber panelled double-leaf door with carved limestone plaque over with cast-metal harp motif in relief.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced house, built c.1820, comprising three-storey eastern part having two-bay upper floors and single-bay ground floor over half-basement, and two-storey western bay, and with polygonal-plan return to rear. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered and red brick chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with render quoins and having render eaves course to eastern bays and moulded render cornice to west. Square-headed window openings, formerly tripartite to ground floor, having painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by cast-iron Doric columns on rendered plinths, with render cornice and decorative spoked fanlight above, approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron boot-scrape. Cast-iron boundary railings to basement area.
Allied Irish Bank, bank/financial institution, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey bank, built c.1860, with limestone bank front to ground floor and pedimented central breakfront incorporating central bays. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and rendered parapet having render cornice and open-bed pediment. Painted rendered walls with render string courses dividing upper floors. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-one pane to end bays of second floor and one-over-one pane with moulded render surrounds to first floor, having decorative render scrolls and keystones and continuous limestone sill to centre windows. Round-headed openings to centre bays of second floor with render hood-moulding course and one-over-one pane windows with margined upper sashes. Bank-front comprising limestone ashlar walls with limestone ashlar plinth, carved limestone architrave, dressed limestone fascia and carved limestone cornice. Marble engaged columns separating square-headed openings with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds and plate glass windows with timber casement over-lights. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and fanlight in chamfered surround.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey over half-basement former house, built c.1830, one of pair, now in use as shop and having integral carriage arch to front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered and brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Painted rendered walls with render quoins and cut limestone string course between basement and ground floors. Square-headed window openings, formerly tripartite to ground floor, with limestone sills, replacement uPVC windows and render cornices with decorative consoles. Square-headed openings to basement storey with replacement timber window and door. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, fanlight and render surround having render engaged fluted columns and moulded architrave with toothed detail, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square-headed carriage arch leads to yard to rear with outbuildings. Cast-iron boundary railings on cut limestone plinth, latter having incised benchmark, to front boundary.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey over half-basement house, built c.1830, one of pair, with integral carriageway to front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings, formerly tripartite to ground floor, with painted stone sills, replacement uPVC windows and decorative render cornices and brackets. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, over-light and moulded render architrave with decorative patterned frieze and cornice with tent rooflet, approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings to one side. Square-headed carriage arch. Cast-iron boundary railings on rendered plinth.
Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey bank, built 1858, with limestone bank front and having four-bay return to rear. Pitched roof with dressed limestone parapet and carved cornice, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with full-height rusticated limestone pilasters to ends of façade. Dressed limestone plat-band to second floor and plinth. Segmental-headed openings to second floor, square-headed to first floor, all with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills to rear. Bank front comprising round-headed openings with rusticated voussoirs and surrounds and dropped vermiculated keystones, flanked by vermiculated rusticated limestone pilasters with carved limestone capitals having roundels. Plate glass timber windows with fanlights and limestone sills and having panels underneath. Timber panelled door with fanlight and limestone step.
The Palace, bishop's palace, 1730–1735 · National interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey over half-basement former bishop's palace with dormer attic windows, built 1732, now in use as hotel, having two principal elevations with three-bay breakfronts. Multiple-bay two-storey addition to southwest with two-bay two-storey link to house and with two-bay two-storey and three-bay single-storey additions to northeast. Recent lift tower extension to northeast. Hipped slate roof to main house with brick chimneystacks having decorative brick pilasters and slate-hung lower parts, dressed limestone parapet walls, carved limestone dentillated cornice, cast-iron rainwater goods and having gable-fronted dormer windows to both principal elevations. Flemish bond red brick walls to front elevation with dressed limestone plat-band between floors, sill courses, dressed limestone quoins to ground floor and carved limestone string course above rubble limestone basement walls. Roughly dressed limestone walls to rear and side elevations with similar dressings to front elevation. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, with Serlian windows to front ground floor end bays and square-headed elsewhere. Dormer windows are eight-over-eight pane with slate-hung gables above. Front façade ground and first floor windows are six-over-six pane, first floor having, carved limestone surrounds and ground cornices and ground floor having carved limestone Gibbsian surrounds with carved limestone voussoirs and keystones. Serlian windows have carved limestone Gibbsian surrounds and decorative triple keystones to all lights, carved limestone imposts and traceried fanlights. Rear façade ground and first floors have flush dressed limestone surrounds and lintels to windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-nine pane to ground floor. Segmental-arch openings to half-basement with limestone voussoirs and replacement timber windows. Front entrance doorway approached by flight of carved limestone steps with cast-iron railings and comprises timber panelled double-leaf door, spoked fanlight, and doorcase. Latter comprises carved limestone pilasters with carved limestone archivolt and flanked by carved limestone engaged rusticated Ionic columns with carved limestone architrave, fascia and dentillated pediment. Garden façade doorway has flush dressed limestone surround and lintel with square-headed timber panelled double-leaf doors and over-light, approached by sweeping flight of carved limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Link building to southwest has brick walls, flat roof and elliptical-headed opening with render surround and voussoirs and recessed replacement timber door. Northeast additions have pitched artificial slate roofs with roughcast and rubble limestone walls with six-over-six pane sliding sash windows, barred to northernmost building. Building retains many interior features. Forecourt to building has former school and gate lodge facing each other inside entrance gates. Gates comprise carved limestone piers flanking vehicular and pedestrian entrances, with carved limestone caps and plinths and cast-iron gates, latter surviving only to pedestrian entrances. Gardens to rear with specimen eighteenth-century mulberry trees.
The Palace, school, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey former school, built c.1820, now disused. Pitched slate roof with rendered and brick chimneystacks, timber bargeboards to gables and gable-fronted roof vents. Rubble limestone walls with flush dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and having timber mullioned and transomed casement windows with margined two-over-three pane lights. Openings to gables and to ground floor of front elevation having carved limestone label-mouldings. Square-headed door opening in south gable with cut limestone lintel and plinth blocks and having replacement timber door.
The Palace, gate lodge, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
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Detached U-plan four-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1750, now disused, having projecting canted end bays. Hipped and half-spired slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with render plat-band at impost level and round-headed recessed panels to southern half of façade. Pointed-arch window openings with limestone sills and fixed four-pane windows, traceried above and paired to recessed panel flanking entrance. Pointed-arch door opening with decorative timber panelled door with tracery detail. Sited in forecourt to former bishop's palace.
Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
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Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, c.1930, with P&T and Saorstát Éireann emblems. Set into boundary wall of former bishop's palace
M. Burke, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
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Terraced five-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, originally comprising three-bay house and lower two-bay house, now in use as shop and having render shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Rendered walls with square-headed openings and painted stone sills. Timber sliding sash windows, except for replacement uPVC windows of second floor of lower block, six-over-six pane to higher block and paired four-over-four pane to first floor of lower block. Shopfront comprising panelled render pilasters to ends of façade and flanking doorway to upper floors, render fascia with raised lettering and cornice, square-headed plate glass display windows having coloured glass over-lights. Recessed shop entrance with square-headed timber panelled door with coloured glass over-light and tiled threshold. Square-headed door to upper floors with timber panelled door with coloured glass over-light.
M. Ryan, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
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Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, now also in use as public house and having render pub-front to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls cast-iron carriage lamps. Cornice to pub-front is also sill course to first floor windows. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds with pulvinated friezes, pediments and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pub-front comprising render Ionic pilasters flanking ends of façade and doorway of alley to rear, with render architrave, fascia with raised lettering and cornice. Replacement timber display window and doors.
House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
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Terraced two-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1870, later also in use as shop and having timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, timber casement windows with raised render reveals and render cornices. Shopfront comprising narrow timber pilasters flanking openings with timber brackets, fascia and cornice. Square-headed two-light plate glass display windows flanking entrance, with moulded render sills and stall risers with panel details and having square-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf door and decoratively carved over-light.
House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, now also in use as shop and having render shopfront to ground floor. Pitched roof with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with render quoins and plat-bands between floors. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, those of first floor having panelled pilasters, brackets and dentillated cornices. Shopfront comprising render pilasters to ends, render fascia and cornice, square-headed plate glass display windows and square-headed door openings with over-lights, that to upper floors being timber panelled and that to shop being glazed. Retaining interior features to upper floors.
House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, now also in use as shop and having timber shopfront to west end of ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows, painted stone sills and fluted render surrounds. Shopfront comprising panelled timber pilasters flanking openings, timber fascia with raised numbering, and cornice. Square-headed divided plate glass display window and square-headed opening with timber panelled double door-leaf and over-light. Square-headed door opening to first floor with timber panelled door and over-light.
House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
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Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1870, now also in use as public house and having timber pub-front to ground floor and shared square-headed integral passageway to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins and recent cast-iron lamps. Square-headed tripartite windows, replacement uPVC to middle and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash to sides, with render surrounds, decorative render consoles, cornice and painted stone sills. Shopfront comprising paired decorative carved timber pilasters to ends with decorative capitals, timber fascia with raised lettering and cornice. Square-headed divided timber display window with panels to stall riser. Timber panelled door with over-light.
Cashel City Hall and Butter Market, town/county hall, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
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Detached three-bay two-storey town hall, built 1866, now in use as tourist information office, and having two principal façades, southeast front and southwest gable, presenting arcading to front. Single-bay single-storey addition to northeast with cut limestone pediment. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, carved limestone cornices to front and rear elevations and carved limestone copings to gables. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls to first floor of front and south-west elevations and to rear. Ashlar limestone walls to ground floor of southeast and southwest elevations. Cut limestone quoins throughout. Front and southwest façades have cut limestone plat-band between floors, continuous carved limestone impost course and carved string course to cut limestone plinth. Snecked dressed limestone walls to addition with carved limestone dated armorial plaque of 1631 from earlier structure and having painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls to rear. Clock to upper southwest gable. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows throughout. Square-headed openings to rear with cut limestone sills. Front elevation has square-headed windows to first floor with moulded limestone surrounds, keystones and sills. Ground floor windows are round-arched with carved limestone imposts, archivolts and triple keystones, cut limestone sills and double timber sash windows separated by half-height carved limestone mullions with timber spoked fanlights over and flanked by round-headed niches with cut limestone sills. Round-headed window openings to southwest gable with having carved limestone surrounds, imposts, voussoirs and keystones. First floor window of gable is tripled with cut limestone pilasters, imposts, archivolts, keystones and moulded limestone sill with carved brackets. Ground floor of gable has round-arch window with carved limestone archivolt and imposts set into round-arch recess with carved limestone archivolt, triple keystone and imposts and cut limestone sill and flanked by round-arched windows with cut limestone voussoirs and sills. Entrance doorway has carved limestone archivolt, imposts and triple keystone with timber panelled door, sidelights and spoked fanlight. Round-headed opening to addition with cut limestone voussoirs, fixed timber windows separated by timber pilaster and spoked fanlight. Square-headed openings to rear with replacement timber doors. Round-headed openings to rear of addition, one having cut limestone sill, fixed timber windows and spoked fanlight, one having timber panelled door, fanlight and concrete steps.
John J. Feehan, house, 1645–1890 · Regional interest
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Detached three-bay three-storey house, apparently built 1647 and remodelled c.1880, now also in use as public house and having advanced flat-roofed pub-front to front elevation, timber pub-front to rear elevation and two-bay double-height lean-to extension to southwest. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered eaves course. Channelled rendered walls to front, ruled-and-lined to rear and smooth rendered elsewhere with render quoins and having carved limestone armorial date plaque of 1647 to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows, those to first floor having render label-mouldings. Replacement timber windows to extension. Advanced pub-front comprising render pilasters flanking openings with render architrave, fascia and dentillated cornice above and having decorative gold lettering. Square-headed plate glass display windows with paned coloured glass over-lights and square-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors and plain over-light. Pub-front to rear with timber pilasters flanking openings with timber fascia above, square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and square-headed windows with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows.
Fountain, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
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Half-octagonal-plan fountain of limestone construction, dated 1842, attached to southwest gable of building. Artificial slate roof with carved stone cornice having pedimented date plaque 1842. Dressed stone base with cut stone plinth and having cut-stone string course separating base from upper snecked stone walling, latter having roughly dressed stone pilasters and having raised rectangular stone panels. Cast-iron lion-head spouts to base feeding into continuous trough reflecting plan of fountain. Square-headed opening with timber louvers to northwest face.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey former house, built c.1820, now in use as offices and shop and having recent shopfront to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystack. Rendered walls with render quoins to front and ruled-and-lined rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to north-easternmost bay, painted stone sills and render surrounds, those to the second floor having render corbels and those to the ground and first floors having render cornices. Tiled panels below ground floor openings. Square-headed openings to rear with replacement timber windows to south-western bays and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to northeast, all with limestone sills. Boarded square-headed door opening to rear. Segmental-headed doorway to front elevation with timber panelled door, sidelights, timber cornice and fanlight with moulded render surround having render pilasters with imposts and approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Shopfront to rear with polished stone cladding and plate glass windows.
House, 1705–1710 · Regional interest
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Detached five-bay three-storey house over half-basement, dated 1709, now in use as guesthouse, set back from street line. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone eaves course, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with carved limestone date plaque. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors, nine-over-nine pane to centre of first floor and replacement timber windows to second floor. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, cobweb over-light, moulded render surround and stone plinth blocks, approached by flight of concrete steps. Cast-iron railings to basement area and paved forecourt to front of building.
House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, now also in use as shop and having timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered eaves course. Painted rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, painted stone sills and render surrounds, those to first floor having render cornices and brackets, those to second floor having chamfered render surrounds and render brackets. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, plain fanlight and channelled render surround. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters, fascia and cornice and having square-headed plate glass display window divided by colonettes and having guard rail. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf door and over-light.
House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
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End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, now also in use as shop and having shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hopper. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with roughcast rendered walls to southwest gable. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising timber fascia, square-headed door opening with render surround, timber panelled door and overlight, square-headed shop entrance opening with render surround and glass door, latter entrance flanked by square-headed openings with timber surrounds and fixed timber windows. Four-bay two-storey addition to rear.
House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, now in use as shop and having timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, render surrounds and replacement timber and some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising panelled timber pilasters flanking door openings with decorative carved timber consoles, timber fascia and cornice having decorative cast-iron crestings. Square-headed plate glass display windows having timber surrounds and sills and tiled stall risers. Square-headed shop entrance with timber panelled double-leaf door and coloured glass over-light. Former doorway to upper floors now part of shopfront.
Davern, house, 1860–1960 · Regional interest
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Terraced single-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1880, now also in use as public house, having pub-front to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with gabled dormer windows and rendered chimneystacks. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed headed openings having moulded render surrounds and replacement aluminium frames to formerly tripartite windows. Dormers have render surrounds and aluminium windows. Pub-front of c.1950 comprising vitreolite cladding, applied chrome lettering, square-headed plate glass display window with aluminium surround and square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, over-light and chrome surround.
Castle/fortified house, 1430–1995 · Regional interest
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Formerly detached multiple-bay six-storey medieval tower house, built c.1480, modified c.1600 and modernised c.1990, now in use as hotel. Rubble limestone walls with crenellated parapet walls having cut-stone coping and quoins and dressed gutter stones. Carved stone gargoyles to upper front wall. Arrow slit openings with cut limestone surrounds. Round-headed window to top floor with limestone sill, moulded limestone surround, and having replacement uPVC and timber windows. Square-headed two-light window c.1600 with carved limestone label-moulding and fixed timber lattice window with coloured glass. Round-headed entrance opening c.1990 with dressed limestone surround and voussoirs, replacement timber doors and windows and cast-iron portcullis feature.
Indaville, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
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Detached five-bay single-storey house over half-basement, built c.1820, facing west and having three-bay end elevations and four-bay rear elevation with full-height bowed bay to centre. Hipped slate roof with eaves brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods and tall, rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, slightly projecting to lower half and having limestone coping. Square-headed windows to piano nobile without sills, and segmental-headed windows to basement with limestone sills. Timber sliding sash windows, triple one-over-one pane to one window of piano nobile of each elevation, two-over-two pane elsewhere to piano nobile, and barred three-over-three pane windows to basement. Segmental-headed entrance doorway having double-leaf timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with glazing over timber panels and having paned over-light. Flight of limestone steps over basement area, with rendered walls having limestone copings. Roofless two-bay single-storey garden building to north boundary with rubble limestone walls and round-arch door and window openings with brick voussoirs and jambs. Gate lodge to northwest, inside entrance gateway, having ruinous hipped slate roof, brick chimneystack and square-headed window and door openings. Quadrant entrance gateway having rendered walls, tooled limestone piers with caps, rebates and plinths, and double-leaf cast-iron gates.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills. Timber sliding sash windows to lower floors, two-over-one pane with decorative cast-iron railings to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first floor, and replacement uPVC windows to second floor. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and spoked fanlight.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, now also in use as guest house. Pitched artificial slate roof, painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render reveals and painted stone sills. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors and replacement uPVC windows to second floor, with cast-iron railings to ground floor. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors, cobweb fanlight, timber doorcase, moulded render surround and limestone step.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, now in use as hostel and having integral carriage entrance to front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof. Painted rendered walls with render quoins to one end. Square-headed window openings with render reveals, painted stone sills and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors, ground floor having cast-iron railings, and with replacement uPVC windows to second floor. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf door, timber doorcase, moulded render surround, cobweb fanlight and limestone step. Square-headed carriage arch with steel double-leaf door.
Saint Anne's, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
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Three-storey house, built c.1840, having three-bay ground and two-bay upper floors, forming pair with house to southeast. Now in use as nursing home. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered moulded eaves course. Painted rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, painted stone sills and render surrounds with render consoles and cornices. Round-headed door opening with concave surround, moulded timber architrave, timber panelled door and ornate cobweb fanlight.
Cooper House, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, forming pair with house to northwest. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered moulded eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and render reveals. Round-headed door opening with concave surround, moulded timber architrave, timber panelled door and cobweb fanlight.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with integral carriageway to slightly-recessed end bay. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, render reveals and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to second floor and six-over-six pane to first and ground floors. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, timber spoked fanlight and rendered and limestone steps. Square-headed carriageway with timber battened doors.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with two-bay three-storey return. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, two-over-four pane to second floor, four-over-four pane to first floor and tripartite six-over-six pane with decorative cast-iron railings to ground floor. Render surrounds comprising pilasters and cornices to first floor and decorative pilasters, consoles frieze and cornice to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, render surround with render pilasters and moulded hood-moulding and spoked timber fanlight. Fluted concrete bollard and reused archaeological stone to gable.
Ashmore House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Detached corner-sited five-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1830, now also in use as guesthouse. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and decorative render frieze with pear-drop motif. Render and timber religious plaque with render hood-moulding to northwest gable. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and render surrounds comprising decorative pilasters, consoles and cornices. Elliptical-headed door opening with fluted render pilasters and archivolt having timber door with decorative panels and flanked by paired decorative render pilasters and cornice, all with frieze, cornice and ornate cobweb fanlight. Approached by flight of limestone steps with sweep walls and decorative cast-iron railings continuing to form boundary of basement area. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows, stone sills, square-headed opening with timber battened door and render surround with render keystone and elliptical-headed opening with timber battened door and render surround with render triple keystone. Access to rear through elliptical-headed carriage arch.
House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
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Detached two-bay three-storey house, built c.1810. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth render to southeast gable and having render plinth. Square-headed window openings with render reveals, painted stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane fixed timber windows to second floor. Remains of cast-iron railings to ground floor window. Round-headed door opening with moulded render surround, stone plinth blocks and timber panelled door with spoked fanlight.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks, one painted, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls, painted and lined-and-ruled to front elevation, latter with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with chamfered surrounds, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed step-profile door surround with timber panelled door, spoked fanlight and limestone step.
The Haven, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Semi-detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, one of pair with house to southeast. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with painted render plinth. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, unequal to second floor, with render reveals and painted stone sills. Round-headed door opening with render surround, timber panelled double-leaf door, spoked fanlight and limestone threshold.
House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
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Semi-detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, one of pair with house to northwest, with carriage entrance recessed to southeast. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and painted render plinth. Square-headed window openings with render reveals, painted stone sills and timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, tripartite to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, cobweb fanlight and render surround. Segmental-headed carriage arch to southeast with corrugated-iron gate.
House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-storey house, built c.1860, having two-bay upper floors and three-bay ground floor, latter including integral carriage arch. One of dissimilar pair with house to northwest. Pitched roof with brick chimneystack, moulded eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings having render surrounds comprising pilasters, decorative friezes and cornices, painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to north-westernmost bay. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, moulded render surround giving effect of engaged columns, moulded render archivolt and cobweb fanlight. Square-headed integral carriage-arch with timber battened double-leaf doors.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey house over half-basement, built c.1820, with integral carriage arch to front elevation. Pitched roof, having rendered chimneystacks, moulded limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render quoins and cut limestone cornice. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, painted stone sills and render surrounds. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door, fanlight, sidelights with chamfered surrounds and painted stone sills, render surround comprising short pilasters and render archivolt. Approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Square-headed carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf door. Cast-iron railings to basement area on cut limestone plinth.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having render surrounds with cornices, painted stone sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors and replacement uPVC windows to second floor. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded render doorcase and recessed timber panelled door having moulded cornice with render brackets, decorative fanlight and concrete steps.
House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
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Terraced four-bay three-storey house with attic, built c.1820, having integral carriage arch to front elevation. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks and render eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins to southeast end. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and render cornices and consoles. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, two-over-two pane to second floor, and replacement uPVC to first floor. Segmental-headed door opening with timber doorcase comprising moulded architrave flanked by fluted pilasters, with moulded cornice, plain fanlight and timber panelled door, and render archivolt with decorative render consoles. Limestone steps with cast-iron boot-scrape. Segmental-headed carriage arch with render voussoirs, timber battened double-leaf door and limestone wheel-guards. Cast-iron railings on painted plinths to front of centre bays.
House, 1815–1845 · Regional interest
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Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, having similar fenestration to house to southeast. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and render eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins to northwest end. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to first floor and twelve-over-eight pane to ground floor. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded limestone surround inset with timber panelled door having timber doorcase comprising paired panelled pilasters on limestone plinths, timber and cut limestone cornice, decorative cobweb fanlight and approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron boot-scrape and railings.
House, 1815–1845 · Regional interest
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Corner-sited end-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with integral carriage arch to front elevation, house being one of pair with house to northwest. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with render quoins to southeast end. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to first floor and twelve-over-eight pane to ground floor. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded limestone surround, inset with timber panelled door having timber doorcase comprising paired panelled pilasters on limestone plinths, timber moulded cornice, decorative petal fanlight and approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Segmental-headed carriage arch with battened timber double-leaf door.
Callagy City Bar, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
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Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-storey house, built c.1860, now also in use as public house, having two-bay front elevation and three-bay side elevation incorporating northwest gable end and integral carriage arch. Chamfered corner, pub-front continuous to ground floor of both street elevations. Single-bay three-storey hipped-roofed addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, painted stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, mainly three-over-three pane with two-over-two pane to front end of side elevation. Pub-front comprising tiled cladding with applied lettering, square-headed window openings having render surrounds and fixed timber windows. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled door and over-light to front elevation and timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf door to side elevation. Square-headed integral carriage arch to side elevation with timber panelled double-leaf door.
School, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey convent national school, dated 1860, now in use as parish centre, with central gabled breakfront and three-bay two-storey addition and further three-bay single-storey addition to rear. Pitched artificial slate roofs with dressed limestone parapets to gable ends, dressed limestone chimneystacks and having carved limestone corbel course to eaves. Chimneystack to south-east gable projects slightly, echoing entrance breakfront. Carved limestone finial and modillions to breakfront. Rubble limestone walls with cut limestone plinth, dressed limestone quoins, with dressed limestone string course forming sill course to first floor front and southeast gable. Carved limestone plaques to front and southeast elevations with carved limestone surrounds. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to additions. Segmental-headed openings to first floor and flat-headed windows to ground, latter with central arch detailing, all windows having cut limestone voussoirs and render to jambs and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Decorative vent to arch detail of ground floor windows. Bull's eye openings to breakfront and to top of southeast gable, with brick surround to former and render to latter. Lunette opening to base of breakfront gable with cut limestone voussoirs. Round-headed vent opening to southeast elevation with timber louvers, dressed limestone voussoirs and render surround. Square-headed window openings to additions with render surrounds, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, continuous and with central tripartite window to ground floor of taller addition and tripartite and grouped to lower addition. Main entrance has square-headed opening with limestone voussoirs and arch and vent detail, render to jambs, timber panelled door, paned over-light and approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings.
Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gates and boundary wall, built c.1850, comprising two pairs of rusticated ashlar limestone piers with cut-stone plinths, decorative friezes with swags, carved cornices and moulded caps flanking vehicular and pedestrian gateways, flanked by rusticated limestone walls terminating in similar piers to those flanking gates and having cut limestone plinth and copings. Decorative cast-iron railings and gates, former with cross finial.
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gates, built c.1785, comprising rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins, plinth and capping, dressed limestone walls to entrance archway with carved limestone urns and oval enamelled plaque. Square-headed pedestrian entrances with fluted carved limestone surrounds and decorative carved limestone keystones and cast-iron gates. Segmental-arch vehicular entrance with cast-iron gate, dressed limestone voussoirs and imposts.
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, cathedral, 1780–1815 · National interest
Description
Freestanding double-height Church of Ireland cathedral, built 1784, with four-bay nave elevations, pedimented aedicular entrance projection to front with three-stage spired clock steeple above added 1812, and bowed chancel. Hipped slate roof to nave and conical slate roof to chancel, all with carved limestone dentillated cornice and pulvinated frieze, except for part of south end of front elevation. Carved limestone dentillated pediment to aedicule. Cut limestone steeple consists of cruciform base with metal clock faces to lower part separated from square-plan plinth by carved limestone string course, rusticated limestone to faces of upper part having central round-arch openings with carved limestone imposts and archivolts with keystones and flanked by engaged Ionic colonnettes supporting carved limestone entablature. Round-plan drum of dressed limestone with alternating round-arch openings with timber louvers and blind openings separated by pilasters supporting carved cornice and in turn supporting octagonal dressed limestone spire with carved limestone ball finial. Dressed limestone walls with dressed limestone plinth and carved string course. Bays of side walls are separated by Ionic pilasters to north wall rusticated to lower level and rusticated pilasters to south. Rusticated limestone to ground floor of front elevation, continuing to west ends of nave side walls, with dressed limestone quoins. Exposed rubble limestone walling to most of south end of front elevation. Limestone aedicule to front façade comprises paired dressed limestone Ionic pilasters with dressed limestone architrave, frieze and cornice above, flanking round-headed recessed panel with carved sill course, flanked by carved limestone pilasters, archivolt and keystone, all in turn framing round-headed niche with carved impost course, archivolt and keystone, flanking dressed limestone pilasters with carved vegetal capitals supporting carved limestone frieze and pediment. Side walls of entrance projection have recessed square-headed openings to ground floor with carved limestone architraves and cornices, opening to north having replacement timber door and opening to south having eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window with limestone sill. Round-headed window openings to upper level with carved limestone block-and-start surrounds, triple keystones, limestone sills having carved limestone brackets and timber louvers and bull's eye openings with carved limestone surrounds and timber louvers above. Round-headed openings to side elevations with flanking carved limestone pilasters, voussoirs and triple keystones, limestone sills and fifteen-over-fifteen pane timber sliding sash windows with spoked fanlights. Round-headed east window having carved limestone block-and-start surround with triple keystone, divided into two lights with round light to spandrel, with stained glass. Square-headed entrance doorway with carved limestone architrave with dressed limestone plinth blocks, keystone, cornice and fluted consoles, having timber panelled double-leaf door, limestone step and cast-iron boot-scrape. Former doorways in front wall of nave and flanking entrance projection are square-headed with dressed limestone voussoirs and have four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to upper part. Interior has carved archivolt to chancel arch flanked by pilasters in turn flanked by shouldered doorways with timber panelled doors having open tympani with moulded surrounds over. Timber parquet ceiling, timber panelled altar backdrop with detail of round arches separated by engaged colonettes with carved capitals and flanked by panelled pilasters supporting carved brackets and entablature. Organ to one side of altar in arcaded recess and having timber arcade detailing. Impost course to nave interior with panelled timber gallery to entrance end of nave. Round-headed doorway to nave proper with part glazed timber double-leaf door having spoked fanlight over. Stone flag floor to interior of cathedral. Cathedral stands in graveyard and on site of medieval parish church. Limestone boundary wall is partly medieval town wall. Monument to front wall of building is composite of medieval crucifixion plaque and armorial plaque and later scroll details. Variety of medieval effigies and grave-slabs to graveyard. Fine collection of elaborate limestone tombs to east of cathedral.
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, library/archive, 1835–1840 · National interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted two-storey diocesan library, dated 1836, with three-bay side walls and single-bay end elevations. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone eaves course, dressed limestone pediments to gable ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone and limestone walls with dressed limestone plat-bands between floors, dressed limestone plinth and giant order pilasters and stepped dressed limestone buttresses to side elevations. Recent limestone date plaque to front elevation. Round-headed window openings to first floor and segmental-headed to ground floor with limestone sills, dressed limestone surrounds and timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-three pane to ground floor. Segmental-arch doorway to front wall with dressed limestone block-and-start surround with keystone and having timber panelled double-leaf door with limestone steps. Vestibule leads to central display room through segmental-headed doorway with glazed timber panelled double-leaf door. First floor reached by wooden stairs and comprises one long library with wooden bookcases projecting into space from side walls. Window over entrance frames view of Rock of Cashel.
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to grounds of Cathedral of St John the Baptist, built c.1860, with triangular ends to plan and gable-fronted porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Half-timbered gable to porch with timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth and plat-band. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, timber sliding sash windows, triple four-over-four pane windows to main wall separated by pilasters, paired six-over-six pane windows to porch, single six-over-six pane windows to end walls and with one-over-one pane windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and limestone step.
Dowling's, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
End of terrace two-bay three-storey house, with shopfront to ground floor, built c.1840. Two-storey addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with render eaves course, brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered rubble limestone walling, exposed to front elevation, with render quoins, render plinth to western bay, and showing evidence of building having being formerly two properties. Eastern bay may be infill between buildings. Blocked segmental-arch carriage entrance, now window, with stone voussoirs. Square-headed windows with moulded render surrounds and replacement windows. Timber shopfront to eastern bay having pilasters with elaborate scroll consoles and caps with pyramidal detail to front, moulded fascia with painted lettering, quadripartite display window with brass horizontal window guards, decoratively tiled stall riser and timber panelled door with over-light.
Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron post box, c.1905, set in footpath at side of street, with royal insignia of Edward VII, crown and lettering 'Post Office' in high relief. Fluted domed cap. Maker's lettering in high relief to plinth.
Croke Memorial Market Cross, monument, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding limestone cross, dated 1895, erected for jubilee of Archbishop Thomas Croke. Comprises ringed Celtic cross with figure sculpture to front, west, face of shaft, and having geometric ornament and interlace elsewhere. Scene of Saint Patrick baptising to base of east side, and crests on other sides of plinth. Rope moulding to corners of shaft and cross, and interlace to ring. Splayed plinth with rope moulding framing faces with inscribed plaques. Cut limestone step and splay below plinth, having wheel-guards to all corners. Set on paved area to west of former town hall in middle of Main Street.

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon: 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
Terrain model: No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cashel.
Flooding: The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Cashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

The townland

Name: Cashel · Caiseal
Area: 137,224 m² (13.72 ha, 33.91 acres)
Civil parish: St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands
Barony: Middlethird
Electoral division: Cashel Urban, the unit of the census
Census 2022: 2,652 people lived in 1,039 households in the Cashel Urban electoral division. 47% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands: Boherclogh, Green, Hughes'-Lot East, Ladys Well, Loughnafina, Moor, St. Dominick's Abbey, St. Francisabbey, St. Patricksrock
Placenames: Cashel on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.