Monkstown Housefarm

Area

140 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it, 82 m² on the ground

Zoning

S5 Objective SNI (COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028) The objective
R2 Objective A (COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Monkstown Housefarm

Planning applications on this parcel

• 17 Dec 2024Grant permission

  Permission for amendments to development granted under Planning Reference D21B/

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24A/1001/WEB

• 25 Aug 2022Approval for the proposal to proceed

  Dún Laoghaire Central Active Travel Improvements

  Part vlll (public consultation) · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, PC/IC/01/22

• 12 Jul 2021Grant permission

  Permission is sought for alterations

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D21B/0353

• 11 Nov 2016Grant permission

  Permission is sought for the subdivision of an existing 5 bedhouse (244.6 sqm)

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D16A/0825

• 27 Mar 2014Grant extension of duration of perm.

  Demolition of existing sports hall, Junior School, extensions to original house

  Extension of duration of permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D08A/0242/E

• 5 Jul 2013Grant permission

  Permission for development consisting of a single storey 22.5 sqm ESB substation

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D13A/0345

• 16 Nov 2009Grant permission

  Planning permission for a proposed 2 storey 8 classroom Junior School with

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D09A/0816

• 29 Feb 2008Grant permission

  Demolition of existing sports hall, Junior School, extensions to original house

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D08A/0242

• 6 Aug 2003Grant permission

  Two storey classroom block extension to include 3 No. classrooms, computer room,

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D03A/0758

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 6 recorded monuments.

• DU023-013001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper. The W gable of the medieval church of Carrickbrennan is incorporated into a 17th century charnel-house (Turner 1983, 28-29). The entrance doorway in the W gable is blocked, it has a round-arch with a dropped keystone under a hood-moulding of sandstone. Above the doorway is a wide round arched window with a granite sill. This medieval building occupies the location of an earlier site associated with the 6th century St. Mochonna, who was attached to the early monastery of Hompatrick, Skerries (Ball 1902, 41). It was held as the chapel of Carrickbrennnan by St. Mary's Abbey in the 12th-13th centuries. After the dissolution of St. Mary's, the church and tithes were given to Sir John Travers. In 1668 Sir Edward Corker re-built the church for the parish, and further works took place in the 19th century (Turner 1983, 28-29). The church is located within the walled graveyard (DU023-013002-) which contains 18th and 19th century memorials. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

• DU023-013002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper. A trapezoidal walled graveyard (N-S 60.2m, E-W 68.8m) accessed through a pointed arched gateway off the Carrrickbrennan Road N of Monkstown Castlefarm. Within the site are 18th and 19th century memorials. In the interior of the graveyard the W gable of the medieval church (DU023-013001-) is incorporated into a 17th century charnel-house (DU023-013003-; Turner 1983, 28-29). The site occupies the location of an earlier site associated with the 6th century St. Mochonna, who was attached to the early monastery of Hompatrick, Skerries (Ball 1902, 41). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

• DU023-013003 Charnel house
  Description

  Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper. The W gable of the medieval church (DU023-012001-) of Carrickbrennan is incorporated into the 17th century charnel-house (Turner 1983, 28-29). After the dissolution of St. Mary's, the church and tithes were given to Sir John Travers. In 1668 Sir Edward Corker re-built the church for the parish, and further works took place in the 19th century (Turner 1983, 28-29). The Charnel house is located within the walled graveyard (DU023-013002-) which contains 18th and 19th century memorials. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

• DU023-014001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. The tower house is in the SW corner of the bawn wall and projects beyond it towards the road edge. It is three storeys in height with a parapet level containing two upper battlements. In the NE corner of the N wall in an inserted doorway. The doorway opens onto a spiral stairs, under the stairs is an arched recess with shows signs of wicker-centring. The original entrance in the E wall is blocked but has a semi-elliptical head. The ground floor (Dims. L8.7m; Wth 5.1m) is lit by a slit ope in the N wall. First floor is entered through a lintelled granite doorway with dressed limestone jambs. This door is rebated with bar holes present. Interiors of first and second floors are lit by slit opes. Corbels project from the E wall on the second floor. The parapet level contains two caphouses, stepped crenellations and a wall-walk. There is a dripstone and guttering present. W section of tower lies beyond the bawn wall and is not tied into it. In the NE corner of the tower house there are chamfered limestone jambs from another building re-used as quoins (Healy 1975, 1-19; Turner 1983, 82; Harbison 1970, 79). The tower house was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1902, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The tower house (DU023-014001-) belongs to a complex which includes a gatehouse (DU023-014002-) connected by a bawn wall (DU023-014003-), all built of coursed granite blocks. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 189/1951). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

• DU023-014002 Gatehouse
  Description

  Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. The gate-house is in the NW corner of the bawn wall (DU023-014003-) enclosure. It has a base batter. The masonry of the bawn wall on the N side of the gate-house displays a series of building phases. It has aroundexternal arch and a pointedinternal arch with wicker centred vault . There is one chamber with a parapet level above it. This chamber is lit by a single light, cusped, ogee-headed, window in the S and a plain loop in the W wall. A lintelled doorway below a pointed arch survives in the NW corner and this provided access to the upper battlements with a projecting turret in the NW angle. There are stepped crenellations. An entrance off the passageway leads into what survives of an E wing. This was lit by rectangular opes. There are some brick-faced insertions. External stairs are present in the SE corner. The site was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1906, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The gatehouse (DU023-014002-) belongs to a complex which includes a tower house (DU023-014001-) connected by a bawn wall (DU023-014003-), all built of coursed granite blocks. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

• DU023-014003 Bawn
  Description

  Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. A bawn wall is built of coursed granite blocks. Remaining section is L shaped (SE-NW c. 26m; SW- NE c. 17.5m). The site was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1906, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The bawn wall (DU023-014003-) connects a tower house (DU023-014001-) and gatehouse (DU023-014002-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

Ground and risks

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3311 (ZIP).

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.

Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.