Monroe West

Area

150,701 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 289 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

Monroe West

Planning applications on this parcel

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

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• TS088-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in rolling terrain, on a slight break in slope. Tillage to W and pasture to E. Very disturbed monument, (map diam. c. 32m E-W). A large quarry has destroyed most of the ringfort, encroaching from the N. In the SW quadrant the interior is filled with large mounds of upcast material from the quarry. Both the remains of the ringfort and the disused quarry are heavily overgrown with scrub. The ringfort, which is depicted on the current OS 6-inch map as being circular, is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.3m crest, 4m base; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.62m). The bank in the W quadrant is broad and rather flattened. On the 25-inch OS map a wide fosse is depicted enclosing the bank from NE-E-SE and from S-W-NW, however, this is not visible above ground. There is a large, well-preserved limekiln at the mouth of the quarry in the N quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 November 2013

• TS088-005 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, at the NE end of a ridge, in undulating terrain under pasture. This is the supposed Carmelite foundation of Lady's Abbey, Ardfinnan in the diocese of Lismore which was projected in 1314 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 290). The Carmelite convent of Ardfinnan is in the lists of Rinuccini and Fonds Grand Carmes, but it is not listed as existing c. 1737 (in Arch. Ord. Rome (Carmelite order), MS. II, C.O. II. 26, p. 13, written 1739-59)' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1958, 290). In 1537 the 'Heads and Commoners of Clonmel in a presentment...found that the Prior of this house was living in open immorality, and that there was no divine service though the office was endowed to the extent of a ploughland. The abbey was closed and the property confiscated in April 1539 (vide State Papers Henry VIII) ' (ITA Survey 1942). Mid-late 15th-century nave and chancel church with crossing tower and side or Ladys chapel to S of chancel. Built of limestone rubble, roughly coursed (Wth 0.82-1.05m) with roughly dressed quoins and a base-batter (H 0.85m; Wth 0.3m) on the E gable. Nave was entered through a doorway at the W end of the S end. To the E of the doorway a broken stoup, possibly polygonal, projects internally. The nave was lit by a centrally placed two-light ogee-headed window in the W gable, with decorated hollow spandrals and hood-moulding. Separating the nave and chancel there is a five-storey, square crossing-tower (dims. 3.78m) within the interior which rests on four squared pillars with relieving arches on the N and S sides which have been infilled. The tower is further supported by masonry between the tower and side walls of the church, this has a duel function of acting as a buttress for the tower and forming the E gable end of the nave and W gable end of the chancel, it also creates a small chamber between these steep-pitched gables. The N chamber is accessed via a flat-headed doorway (H. 1.45m; Wth 0.66m) in the W wall and has no window. The S chamber is currently used as a storage area for architectural fragments. In the S wall of this chamber there is a broken-out window. At the apex of the pointed vault of the crossing-tower there are two carved bell-rope holes. The pitch of the gables is evident from the coping stones which still project from the tower, at the base of the gables, on the N and S face of the crossing-tower above first-floor level, the coping stones become a string course. This string course is repeated above third-floor level. The tower was entered at first-floor level via a doorway in the S wall. The second floor was lit by a flat-headed single light in the S wall and the third floor was lit by a round-headed single-light window in the S wall. The fourth floor has largely collapsed. The chancel has a separate entrance in the S wall, immediately S of the Lady's Chapel. The chancel was lit by three windows. A pointed traceried window in the E gable, a single-light window in the W end of the S wall and another at the E end, though this is now missing and the wall has been coarsely rebuilt at this point. The original window is described in the OS letters as 'a quadrangular window…of cut limestone' (O'Flanagan 1931, vol.1, 21). Above the apex of the hood-moulding of the E window there is a worn carved male head of sandstone with long neck projecting out in high relief. The male figure appears to be wearing a small cap, perhaps a tonsure. A partially blocked pointed doorway with moulded surround at the E end of the N wall of the chancel formerly led into ancillary buildings of which there are no visible remains. There is a small piscina in the form of a slop-stone within an aumbry at the E end of the S wall and a small aumbry at the E end of the N wall. The entrance to the Lady's Chapel was from the S wall of the chancel but this has been blocked up. It is currently entered through an opening broken through the centre of the W wall of the chapel. It was lit by three windows. A pointed traceried window in the S gable with external hood-moulding which has a carved stone head at each terminal, the W head is that of a demonic green man with vines spewing from his mouth, while the other, a serene lady, is accompanied by a rosette. The tracery has fallen out. There are two windows in the E wall, a round-headed single-light and a two-light ogee-headed window. There is a small aumbry at the E end of the gable and another between the two windows in the E wall. There are a number of architectural fragments in the graveyard, including a door jamb reused as a step at the entrance to the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 November 2013

• TS088-005001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a NE-slope, at the NE end of a ridge, in undulating terrain under pasture. Graveyard is located immediately S of Lady's Abbey (TS088-005----). The graveyard is roughly rectangular in shape (dims. 13m N-S; 48m E-W). There are a number of architectural fragments in the graveyard, including a door jamb reused as a step at the entrance to the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

Ground and risks

Radon

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

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

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