Fahymore

Area

90,469 m² (9.05 ha, 22.36 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,314 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

Fahymore

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 5 recorded monuments.

• LE027-079001 Church
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope with Mong Hill rising over it to the NE and there is a low spur extending off to the SW. The medieval parish church of Kiltoghert is inside the N wall of a rectangular graveyard (dims 85m E-W; 70m N-S) defined by a limestone masonry walls, which has been extended up the slope to the S. The church is listed as ‘Cill Tachuir’ in the 'Register of Clonmacnoise' (O'Donovan 1857, 451) where it is probably a later insertion. The church and parish are named after St Tochomhracht, a female saint of the Conmaicne, whose feast was celebrated on 11 June (Ó Riain 2011, 575), and Kiltoghert featured in a celebration of Lughnasa (MacNeill 1962, 606-07). The church is firmly attested from 1412 (Pinkman 1942, 34-6), and possession was disputed later in the century when the church of Kiltrennan (LE031-082004) was attached to it as a chapel-of-ease (Scully 2019, 135-6). The church is an undivided rectangular structure (ext. dims 15.5m plus E-W; 8.6m N-S) whose N and E ivy-covered walls survive almost complete (H c. 3.6m) together with the E end of the S wall, but the W wall is absent. The E wall has an external base-batter and a large pointed opening, probably for a lancet window, indicating a thirteenth century date. A carved bishop's head on a window moulding is probably from a fifteenth century redevelopment of the church, and a there is a graveslab (dims 2.2m x 0.65-0.95m) (Butler 1932) also in the graveyard. The holy well to the N is circular (diam. 1.7m) and had a pattern, transferred from Toberreendoney Well (LE027-136---), at the end of July from the 1860s until c. 1910 (MacNeill 1962, 606-07). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 19 September 2017

• LE027-079002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope with Mong Hill rising over it to the NE and there is a low spur extending off to the SW. The medieval parish church of Kiltoghert (LE027-079001-) is inside the N wall of a rectangular graveyard (dims 85m E-W; 70m N-S) defined by a limestone masonry walls, which has been extended up the slope to the S. The stone head (LE027-079007-) and graveslab (LE027-079006-) are in the graveyard, and the holy well (LE027-079003-) is c. 60m to the N on the other side of the N-S public road. Date of revised upload: 19 September, 2017

• LE027-079003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on the SE side of a NE-SW stream on the E side of a N-S public road c. 60m N of Kiltoghert graveyard (LE027-079002-). It is described as ‘Big Well’ on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but was properly known as St Toccomhracht’s Well (Blaney 1944). The well is circular (int. diam. 1.7m) with a stone surround and had a pattern at the end of July until c. 1910 (MacNeill 1962, 606-7), but it is now disused in a farmyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 September, 2017

• LE027-079006 Graveslab
  Description

  A carved bishop's head (LE027-079007-) is set up over a shouldered graveslab (L 2.17m; Wth 0.65-0.95m; T 0.1m) with no inscription but with a carving in relief that is thought to represent a candle, a pat of butter and a loaf of bread, relating it to the folktales about the hospital or hostel for pilgrims (LE027-079005-) on Mong Hill (Butler 1932). A central raised circle, probably representing the Host is surrounded by radiating raised ribs. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 September, 2017

• LE027-079007 Stone head
  Description

  A carved bishop's head with his mitre (H 0.33cm; Wth 18cm; D 15cm) at the apex of a window moulding from a flat-arched window, probably dating from a fifteenth century redevelopment of Kiltoghert parish church (LE027-079001-), is set up in the graveyard beside the graveslab (LE027-079001-). There is a tale that at one of the first battles of the Nine Years War in 1593 at Tulsk, Co. Roscommon, Edmond Magauran, (McGowen or Moran), the Archbishop of Armagh, was killed. In order to prevent identification of the body, the head was removed and interred at Kiltoghert (Butler 1932, 74-5). While the death of Magauran is recorded (AFM 1593, 4), the aftermath is not. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 19 September 2017

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 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1481 (ZIP).

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.