Breanra

Area

3,979 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it, 418 m² on the ground

Zoning

N1.5 Transport Infrastructure (Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
R2 Residential Existing (Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
N2.1 Water/Rivers/Streams (Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
G1 Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Breanra

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 13 recorded monuments.

• GA017-001001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard on E side of Chapel St., in Dunmore town (GA071-002----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as rectangular roofed building aligned E-W. Though labelled thereon as 'Abbey', this is probably the site of the medieval parish church (Neary 1914, 106, 125, no. 64). According to Bradley and Dunne (1992, 68), it was dedicated to St Nicholas. All that survives is an overgrown stretch of wall (L >7m, H c. 2m), aligned E-W, in SW corner of the graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-001002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA017-002 Historic town
  Description

  At a fording point on the Sinking River, 1km downstream from Dunmore Castle (GA017-069----). Like the castle, the borough was probably founded by Piers de Bermingham sometimes before his death in 1249 (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 65-6). The above authors (ibid., 67) suggest that it may have been 'concentrated' on N side of the river. A reference to the construction of a town wall exists as early as 1280 (Graham 1972, 14), though no visible surface trace of its line or fabric survives. However, the modern street plan, plot pattern and street names — High St., Gater St. — reflect a long urban ancestry. The surviving monuments comprise the Augustinian friary (GA017-005001-), in Barrack St., and the 'Abbey' (GA017-001001-), on N side of Chapel St.; probably the site of the medieval parish church. There is also an enigmatic earthwork (GA017-004----), marked 'Mote' on OS 6-inch map, on E outskirts. (Neary 1914, 101-4; Holland 1988, 77-81) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-003 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA017-004 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On NW extremity of a glacial ridge, on E outskirts of Dunmore town (GA017-002----): the Sinking River flows past to NE and the old fair green lies a short distance to NW. A small well-preserved mound, roughly circular in plan and conical in profile (D 6m, H c. 1.8m). Traces of a low linear bank and shallow fosse are visible running along the ridge summit to SE. According to Bradley and Dunne (1992, 70), this mound 'seems to be the remains of a barrow'. They also express the opinion that the linear bank may be part part of 'a hollow way leading up to it ... the north side ... formed by a scrap, the south by a bank'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-004001 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA017-005001 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  On the N side of Barrack St., in Dunmore town (GA017-002----). This Augustinian friary, a National Monument, is first mentioned in 1425 and it is reputed to have been founded in that year by Walter de Bermingham (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 299). Of the monastery, only the much-modified church survives. Rectangular in plan (E-W; L 35.2m), it comprises the nave and chancel with traces of a S aisle; only a short section (L 2.75m) of the W wall of the latter survives. The division between the nave and chancel is marked by a centrally placed tower that was inserted in the 16th century. There is a fine 15th-century doorway in the W gable, in the S jamb of which is a holy water stoup. The doorway is decorated with three shallow orders which have fluted chamfers and moulded capitals. The side pinnacles and that at the centre of the ogee-form hood are tall and slender and terminate in carved poppy-heads (Leask 1960b, 76). Above the doorway there is the recess for a memorial tablet (GA017-005002-) to the de Berminghams and a single-light pointed arch window. On the S side of the nave (L 15.85m, Wth 6.45m) three large arches that formerly accessed the S aisle were blocked up. Windows subsequently inserted into the central and eastern-most arches were also blocked up. A beautiful carved female head with an elaborate head dress was reused as quoin stone in the eastern window. The tower, of three storeys, springs from a pointed chancel arch flanked by the corbels which supported the rood screen. Some of the original plaster and wicker-centring survives on the underside of its vault and a small carved head is visible on its SE pier. The chancel (L 15.15m, Wth 6.3m) was in use as a Protestant church from the 18th to the early 20th centuries (Neary 1914, 96, 100-1, also 103-4). The three blocked round-headed window embrasures in the N and S walls all date from this period, though they probably occupy the sites of the originals. The E window is also blocked up. A cross-slab (GA017-005004-) (Higgins 1987, 361, no. 83) and two medieval graveslabs (GA017-005003- and GA017-005005-) are associated. See also GA017-138----. (O' Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 23-4; Harbison 1975, 91) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 24 May 2018 The following images have been appended: GA017-005001-_01.jpg Overall view from SW GA017-005001-_02.jpg Overall view from SE GA017-005001-_03.jpg Crossing tower from E GA017-005001-_04 jpg Detail of carved stone head This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 273.

• GA017-005002 Wall monument
  Description

  Located on the external face of the W wall of the friary church (GA017-055002-). Bradley and Dunne (1992, 69) noted that the principal feature of the church was its ‘perpendicular west doorway with the Bermingham coat of arms in a rectangular panel to one side above. The inscription on the panel (which is not entirely readable) names Gaulterius de Bremwycham (d. 1428) but it may be nothing more than a memorial since the door appears to be later in date than 1428 (Leask 1960, iii, 76)’. On inspection in April 2018 the recess for the memorial was clearly visible but no trace of the coat of arms or the inscription, which may have been inscribed on a tablet that was inserted into the recess, was evident. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 May 2018

• GA017-005003 Graveslab
  Description

  According to Bradley and Dunne (1992, 69), there was ‘a fifteenth century slab in the west wall’ of the church (GA017-055001-). On inspection in April 2018 it could not be located. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 May 2018

• GA017-005004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Lying recumbent in the chancel of the church (GA107-005001-), close to the E gable. Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 361, no. 83) as a weathered subrectangular sandstone slab (L 0.95m; tapering from 0.52m to 0.49m; T 0.14-0.16m) bearing a two-line Greek ringed cross on a long shaft. A grooved line visible on each side of the slab may be part of a single-line frame around it. Both ends of the slab, particularly the lower end, are broken. Some pieces of mortar noted on it suggest that it was previously incorporated into a structure at some stage. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 May 2018

And 3 more.

Architectural heritage

• Eiscir View, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1800, now derelict, having shallow breakfront to entrance bay with flat-roofed entrance porch to front, and with shallow projection to middle of rear. Shallow hipped slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks to ridge, and replacement uPVC gutters and cast-iron downpipes. Rendered to walls and plinth, with projecting stone string course to ground floor of front elevation. Square-headed boarded up window openings with painted stone sills. Round-headed full-height window opening to central bay of rear elevation, one replacement uPVC window visible to second floor. Porch comprises flat concrete roof supported on square columns, added c.1920. Entrance approached by concrete steps, and having six-panelled double-leaf timber door with elaborate Adam-style fanlight with radial glazing bars forming central orb and each segment ending in ogee arch. Set in open field adjacent to housing estate with random rubble boundary wall and single-storey random rubble outbuildings to south of site.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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