Glebe

Area

44,587 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

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

Glebe

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 6 recorded monuments.

• RO005-020001 Church
  Description

  Called Eas Mac nEric, it was reputedly founded by St Colmcille in the 6th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 30) for Dochonna, who is probably the same person and connected with the Ceinéal Eoghain sept of the Uí Neill (Ó Riain 2011, 269-70). It became the inauguration site of the O'Conor kings of Connaught between 1106 and 1224 (FitzPatrick 1998). Listed as Esmakirk in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. Doc. Irl. vol. 5, 224), it is situated on a S and E-facing slope c. 50m from the N bank of the W-E Boyle River at a point where it turns N. It overlooks a waterfall from which it took its name and a ford (RO05-020005-). It adapted its name to Eas Ui Fhloinn from 13th century coarbs and abbots (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 101). The ivy-clad portions of the N wall (T 1.4m; H 2.5m) and W wall (L 3m) of a church (dim. c. 21m E-W), and two cross-inscribed stones (RO005-020006-; RO005-020007-) of three known in 1988 (RO005-020008-) (SMR file) are are at the S extremity of a D-shaped graveyard (RO005-020002-) (dims. 91m N-S; 70m E-W) which is defined by a masonry wall and which has been extended to the N. Souterrain (RO005-020009-) is in the vicinity of the church, and the roadway (RO005-021----) extends E from the church on the S bank of the river. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 18 May 2015

• RO005-020002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a S and E-facing slope c. 50m from the N bank of the Boyle River overlooking a waterfall from which it took its name. A D-shaped graveyard (dims. 91m N-S; 70m E-W) defined by a masonry wall which has been extended to N. The remains of Assylin Church (RO005-020001-) is at the S extremity of the original graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO005-020005 Ford
  Description

  It is related in the tripartite life of St Patrick, that the saint on a return visit to this area was crossing the Boyle River when his chariot was upset. He was using a ford near the waterfall, and henceforth the ford was called Ath Carpait, the ford of the chariot (FitzPatrick 1998, 353). The river is quite narrow at the falls here beneath Assylin church (RO005-020001-), and although there are islands in the river above and below the falls there is no indication that there was ever a ford here. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO005-020006 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  There is a drawing in RIA of a cross-slab from Assylin Church (RO005-020001-) made by L. dePaor in 1988 (No. 2). The slab (dims. c. 1.2m x c. 0.4m) is c. 20m N of the church beside cross-slab (RO006-020007-) and has an incised cross of three lines (dims. c. 0.6m x 0.4m). The stem is c. 0.12m wide. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO005-020007 Cross-slab
  Description

  There is a drawing in RIA of a cross-slab from Assylin Church (RO005-020001-) made by L. dePaor in 1988 (No. 3). The slab (dims. c. 1.35m x c. 0.54m; T 0.1m) has an incised cross (dims. c. 0.3m x 0.2m), and is c. 20m N of the church beside the cross-incised slab (RO005-020006-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO005-020008 Cross-slab
  Description

  There is a drawing in RIA of a cross-slab from Assylin church (RO005-020001-) made by L. dePaor in 1988 (No. 1). The slab (dims. c. 1.3m x c. 0.6m) has an incised cross (dims. c. 0.1m x 0.06m) with expanded terminals. This cross-slab cannot now be traced on the site. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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 20 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 low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1234 (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.