Castlemoyle South

Area

127,151 m² (12.72 ha, 31.42 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 54 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

Castlemoyle South

Planning applications on this parcel

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

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments around it

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

• TS052-034 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  On the E bank of the River Suir. According to the Annals of the Four Masters Ardmayle was destroyed in 1581 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 88). However, it appears to have recovered from this attack as White (1892, 6-7) refers to an instance in 1641 when 'a Captain Peisley, marching to Ardmayle killed there seven or eight poor men and women, whom he found standing abroad in the street near their own doors, inoffensively'. Within Ardmayle settlement there are the remains of an enclosure (TS052-034001-) known as Forte Edward which has been converted into a landscape feature in the 19th century with a summerhouse (TS052-34002-) built on the E side of the mound utilising 17th-century architecural fragments (TS052-034003-) from Ardmayle castle which is a 17th-century fortified house (TS052-034011-) at the W end of Ardmayle village and possibly medieval fabric from the church (TS052-034005-) and graveyard (TS052-034006-) located to the SE of the mound. A motte and bailey (TS052-034004-) is located to the N of the church and graveyard which contains two medieval floriated graveslabs (TS052-034007-/TS052-034008-). To the E of the church and graveyard there is a medieval tower house (TS052-034009-) with earthworks (TS052-034010-) in the fields to the E and S of the tower house and to the N of the church and N of the motte and bailey. There is a bawn (TS052-034012-) associated with the fortified house. The precise location and extent of the medieval settlement associated at Ardmayle is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034001 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture on a low, natural rise in a low-lying landscape. Roughly circular area (overall diam. 44m) defined by a bank (Wth crest 3m; Wth at base 4.5m; int. H 0.6m; Ext. H 1.4m-2.05m) with evidence of a external stone revettment, at the base of this revettment there is a slightly sloping berm (Wth 2.4m; H 1.2m) which is enclosed around the base of the monument by a retaining rubble stone wall (H 0.7m) which is appears to be a landscaping feature. The wall is best preserved S-WNW and is lower and partially collapsed into surrounding field WNW-S. The wall seems to be part of a counter revetment S-WNW. The interior is generally level and obscured by overgrowth of bushes. There is a folly (TS052-034002-) in the interior in the E quadrant which has incorporated some architectural fragments (TS052-034003-) while other fragments had been incorporated into the lower revettment wall in the W quadrant and have tumbled downslope from it. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  In improved pasture on a low, natural rise in a low-lying landscape. Built into the interior of an enclosure (TS052-034001-) and abutting the E bank. A well-coursed rubble masonry structure, sub-rectangular in plan with a curvilinear rear. The opening (Wth 2.18m; D 2.0; H 2.07m) at E has a shallow vaulted ceiling with voussoir camber arch. Three lintelled recesses in the rear wall may be put-log holes. There is a brick kerb (H 0.75m; Wth 0.22m; D 0.1m) across the base of the opening. A plain-run moulded cornice forms the coping stones to E and short return to N and S sides. The remains of external render are evident. These and other architectural fragments (TS052-034003-) are possibly reused from the fortified house (TS052-034011-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  There are a number of architectural fragments incorporated into the masonry of a folly (TS052-034002-) on the E bank of 'Forte Edward' enclosure (TS052-034001-) and others which were incorporated into the retaining wall in the W quadrant of this enclosure and have fallen out and are strewn about the external ground level. The folly incorporates a cut limestonestone window surround (H 0.47m; Wth 0.2m) which is set vertically above the keystone of the folly. The top of the folly is surmounted by a moulded cornice (H 0.17m), visible at the NE and SE angles, which may have come from the fortified house (TS052-034011-). The fragments on the ground at the N quadrant include three chamfered limestone mullion/transom pieces (L 0.37m; Wth 0.23m; D 0.11m; chamfer Wth 9cm; visible L 0.6m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.2m; chamfer Wth 9m; L 0.27m; Wth 0.17m) and two cut limestone blocks (0.53m x 0.25m; D 0.25m), one with a chamfered edge (0.34m x 0.27m; D 0.18m; chamfer Wth 0.08m). The window surrounds appear to be from the fortified house which is located c. 200m to the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034004 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  At the edge of a N-facing slope overlooking a flat plain with very good views in all directions, except to S which is obscured by rising ground. Motte and bailey situated in a pasture field which has been badly poached by cattle and which was quarried in the 1950s, with quarry holes immediately W of the motte and E of the bailey and upcast from the quarry adjacent to the monument. In 1207 Walter de Lacey was granted the cantred of Eóganacht Caisil (Ardmayle) and c. 1225 when Richard de Burgh married Walter's daughter Egidia, Richard received the cantred with the castle, presumably the motte, of Ardmayle (Cahill 1982 - from CDI Nos. 1268, 363 and 743). Steep-sided, high motte (H 8.65m) with an oval summit (dims. top 8m N-S; 10.8m E-W; base c. 40m) with slightly concave surface. A mature tree had been growing on the top of the motte in the 1980s and is since gone, if uprooted this could have been responsible for the slight depression on the summit. Another tree has since been planted NE of centre, protected from cattle by a metal surround. Also on the summit are a flag-pole and a statue of Our Blessed Lady with a statue of the keeling St. Bernadette c. 1m below, on the slope. The S quadrant has a slight lip (Wth 0.9m; H above int. 0.25m) with a high stone content, possibly indicating a wall. This slight lip is visible around the circumference of the summit to a lesser degree, emphasized by the concave interior. The base of the motte is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 1.56m above outer bank) from SE-N-NE and outer bank (Wth crest 2.7m; base 7.1m; ext. H 0.8m) from SE-S-SW and from NW to N and by a U-shaped bailey from NE-E-SE is divided from the bailey by a broad, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 1.45m below bank of bailey). In the W quad. there is mounded-up upcast from a quarry 3m from the edge of the outer edge of the fosse around the motte. There is also a short length of bank, out of line with the enclosing bank of the motte, running roughly N-S but more westerly than the enclosing bank which does not survive at this point, which though very compact and bank-like, may also be the result of adjacent quarry activity. The U-shaped bailey (diam. 42.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) has a relatively flat interior, surrounded by an earthen bank, most pronounced in the N and E quadrants (Wth crest 6.1m; base 14.2m; int. H 1.08; ext. H 5.2m) where the bank is broad and stoney and falls very steeply to the exterior. Low bank along W side (Wth crest 2m; base 4.6m; int. H 0.7m) largely reduced to scarp with stone protruding from top edge of scarp. In the SSW quadrant of the bailey the bank flattens out, this may be the remains of an original ramped entrance or may be result of damage to the monument. East of this possible ramp the bank of the bailey reduces in external height to 1.1m with an external berm (Wth c. 12m) and evidence of a short length of outer bank (Wth crest 2m; base 6.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext .H 1.8m) which again maybe associated with an original entrance arrangement or may be due to later disturbance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 24/1956).

• TS052-034005 Church
  Description

  On level ground on a W-facing slope in undulating terrain. Of the medieval church the W tower (dims. 7.27m N-S excluding base-batter; 5.93m E-W excluding base-batter) survives, attached to the W end of a C of I church (L 16.22m x Wth 8.17m) built in 1815 (Crotty 2003, 114). According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 86) 'A little eastward of the new Church there remain about two feet [0.6m] in height of the east, north, and south walls of an old building twenty seven and a half feet [c. 8.4m] in breadth; its length cannot be determined as the west wall has entirely disappeared, as have also the west end of the north and south walls. There is a breach or chasm, about the middle of the portion of the south wall remaining, where the doorway seems to have been placed. These walls, which are about three and a half feet [1m] in thickness, might be judged to be those of the old Church, but for their great distance from the tower'. Of this building, which is possibly the chancel of the medieval church, the E wall survives as a low, grass-covered wall (L 15.4m; Wth crest 0.9; Wth at base 1.55m; H above int. 0.7m; H above ext. 0.5m) which runs E-W from the N side of the E wall of the later church. Opposite, and 8.4m S of, this grass-covered wall, and roughly aligned with the S wall of the later church, there is a grass-covered mound which may be a burial or remnants of a wall (Wth crest 0.7m; Wth at base 1.8m; H 0.2-0.5m). The tower is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a base-batter (H 1.55m; Wth 0.5m). There is a buttress at the E end of the N wall of the tower with a slight base-batter and a similar one at the E end of the S wall of the tower. Two hood-mouldings with ivy-leaf terminals have been incorporated into the upper portion of the S buttress. At ground level in the N face, a 19th-century doorway carved in a medieval style has been inserted. The barrel-vaulted ground floor (int. dims. 4.38m N-S; 4.43m E-W) is lit by a loop in the S wall within a deep-splayed embrasure. A large flat-headed window has been inserted into the W face. There are two unusual vent holes (D 1.1m; H 0.18m; Wth 0.15-0.2m) at an angle in the wall thickness at ground-floor level (H c. 1.1m above internal floor level) which exit externally just above the base-batter, one at the S end of the W wall and the other towards the E end of the S wall. The first floor is accessed via an inserted wooden stairs in the SW angle. It is lit by flat-headed single-light windows in the N, S and W walls. A wooden stairs, rising along the W wall, gives access to the second floor which has a modern wooden floor supported on offsets on the N and S walls. There is only one window at second-floor level, an ogee-headed single-light in the S wall. There is an inserted chimney flue in the N wall along the E side which continues from first-floor level. The modern floor at third-floor level appears to be resting on an inserted offset in the E and W walls. The offset has a very crude stone-cladded appearance and the inserted floor is at a higher level than the original as it cuts across the existing windows. The third floor is lit by seven windows, two in the N, E and W walls and one in the S wall. All the windows at this level are ogee-headed, some plain, some with hollow spandrels and others with decorated spandrels. One of the windows in the N wall is a two-light window. Both internally and externally the windows and embrasures show evidence of reconstruction. The tower is surmounted by a parapet which was rebuilt in the 19th century with crow-stepped gables and a turret on the NE angle. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034006 Graveyard
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in undulating terrain. A large, roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 82m NE-SW; 116m NW-SW) with a church (TS052-035005-) in the western portion. The headstones are largely S and E of the church and are mostly of 18th and 19th century date. There are simple stone gravemarkers towards the SW wall of the graveyard. The graveyard has been extended out to the road to the SE and this extension has become the main burial place for burials from the 1940s onwards. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall and is entered from a gate in the SE wall. There is a graveslab (TS052-034006-) in the graveyard 8.9m E of the N side of the E gable of the modern C of I church. There are a number of architectural fragments in the graveyard. These include a window sill (L 1.01m; Wth 0.405m; D 0.22m) of late 17th/early 18th-century date, located 15m S of the S wall of the church (TS052-034005-), resting on the plinth of a burial plot. It is a limestone sill sloping both internally and externally (D 0.14m) with lines of punch tooling running along the width of the sill. The central flat plane is 0.35m wide. The edge of the sill is reamed, though not necessarily machine cut. A limestone corbel (H 0.28m above ground; Wth 0.22m; D 0.19m) 20m from the SE angle of the church, is embedded in the ground and has been reused as a gravemarker. It has a rounded profile and is roughly dressed. Another limestone corbel (H 0.52m above ground; Wth 0.36m; D 0.15m) SE of the church is also embedded in the ground and has been reused as a gravemarker. It has a rounded profile and the functioning end (L 0.15m) is roughly dressed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034007 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the tower of Ardmayle church (TS052-034005-). A tapering limestone slab (Wth at top 0.3m; Wth at base 0.23m; L 1.03m; T 0.13-0.9m narrowing towards the base). Decorated with an incised four arm fleur-de-lys cross, with a central floral motif, within a double incised circle, a shaft of four incised lines which tapers towards the base. The base consists of a smaller version of the same four arm fleur-de-lys cross, except with a central boss, and within a single incised circle. An incised line runs horzontally across the slab above the base cross on either side of the shaft and another less well-preserved line runs across the slab directly beneath the head cross. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034008 Graveslab
  Description

  In Ardmayle graveyard (TS052-034006-) 8.9m E of the N side of the E gable of the modern C of I church. A tapering limestone slab (Wth at top 0.54m; Wth at base 0.46m; visible length 1.16m; T 0.13-0.2m), standing upright in the ground, the top corner of the sinister side is broken off. Decorated with a seven arm fleur-de-lys cross with double incised lines which continues to form the shaft of the cross, the head is within a double incised circle (diam. 0.54m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034009 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. Ardmayle church (TS052-035005-) and graveyard (TS052-035006-) are located c. 100m to W. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes this as 'a good Castle' which in 1640 was under the proprietorship of 'Theobald Butler of Ardmayle Esqr. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 245). According to Davis White (1892, 7) it was 'the residence of the Butlers, and subsequently of the Cootes. Cromwell is said to have attacked it and after gaining possession to have hanged the proprietor'. This four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 10.75m N-S; 8.75m E-W; E wall T 1.3m including base-batter) is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with evidence of external harling, well-cut quoins and a base-batter (H 2.75m; Wth 0.3m). The battlement level does not survive. The external face of the N wall and N end of the E wall is ivy covered. The ground floor is entered through a doorway, now broken out, at the W end of the N wall. There is a small lobby area with a murder-hole overhead which is blocked. From the lobby a mural stair rises to W and a pointed doorway gives access to the ground-floor chamber. The internal floor level has been deepened and is c. 0.85m-1m lower than the original level. A foundation plinth projects internally along the W wall. The chamber was lit by four flat-headed windows, the embrasures of which splay both internally and externally. There are two windows in the E wall, both within round-arched arcades, the northernmost window broken out to create a later entrance. The other windows are centrally placed in the S and W walls. There are two wall cupboards in the W wall, one at either end. The first-floor was entered through a flat-headed doorway from the spiral stair in the W wall. It was supported on a wooden floor carried on well-cut corbels on the E and W walls and was lit by three flat-headed windows, one in the N wall and two in the E wall. There are four wall cupboards at this level. A quite narrow, flat-headed doorway at the S end of the W wall gives access to a garderobe chamber which dog-legs into the S wall. In the N wall, above the ground floor doorway, there is an embrasure which appears to be broken out, possibly for re-use as a fireplace, utilising the murder-hole chute as a flue. The murder-hole chute rises through the thickness of the wall and appears to have been accessed from the top floor of the tower house. A splayed wall-cupboard in the NW angle contains a peep-hole overlooking the stairs. The second floor was entered through a flat-headed doorway at the S end of the W wall, from the mural stair. This doorway is cut into the pointed vault which roofs the second floor. This level had a wooden floor which was carried on corbels projecting from the E and W walls. It was lit by two flat-headed windows, centrally placed in the N and E walls. In the S wall, just below the apex of the vault, the wall projects out on a continuous corbel course. The vault is keyed into the S wall, unlike the N wall where the vault was built first and the apex of the wall built up to meet it. The stair rises in the W wall and is lit by loops, with slop-stone bases, opposite the doorway to each floor level. It has several unusual features including a deliberately cut peep-hole (Wth 0.13m x H 0.165m) in the stair lintel overlooking the NW angle of the stair which could be accessed from the splayed wall cupboard in the NW angle at first-floor level. Near the top of the stairs there are two pairs of opposing draw-bar holes in the E and W stair wall which appear to relate to a recess in a stair lintel which may have housed some form of gate/stair yett (H c. 1.6m; Wth of stairs 0.7m), with a hinging mechanism above, to block access to the floors above the vault. When in position the base of the gate may have been secured to a step where a well-cut hole (Wth 0.1m; H 0.075m; D 0.1m) mid-way along the base of a step is perfectly in line with the hinge in the roof of the stairs and the draw-bar holes. At third-floor level the stair turns at the SW angle into a small lobby which is overlooked by an internal loop in the garderobe chamber. The third floor is entered through a flat-headed doorway at the W end of the S wall. The walls at third floor level survive to a height of c. 2m and are heavily overgrown with ivy, with saplings establishing themselves on the roof of the vault. Though broken out, there appear to have been centrally placed windows in the N, E and W walls and an ogee-headed single-light window survives in the S wall, with window seats in the high embrasure which is raised above the garderobe chamber which runs along the S wall. There are four wall cupboards. A doorway at the E end of the S wall of the third-floor chamber gives access to a lobby which leads to an oubliette trapdoor straight ahead, with slop-stone in the wall above, a garderobe chamber in the S wall and a stair in the SE angle which descends to a chamber at second-floor level along the E wall and ascends via a spiral stair at the E end of the S wall to the battlements. The garderobe is lit by two loops in the S wall and an internal loop, mentioned above, in the N wall. Roughly mid-way along this chamber there are opposing put-logs (H c. 0.8m) in the N and S walls which may have supported some form of internal screen. The garderobe chute exits near the W end of the S wall where the external face is broken out. The oubliette chamber (H 1.45m; Wth 0.72m) runs E-W beneath the garderobe chamber and appears to have no windows though a small square hole, visible externally, appears to have served as an air vent. The second floor mural chamber is lit by two loops in the E wall both with slop-stone sills and there is a large wall cupboard at the W end of the N wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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Architectural heritage

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Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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Terrain model

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Flooding

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