Cargin Demesne

Area

38,494 m² (3.85 ha, 9.51 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

Cargin Demesne

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 19 recorded monuments.

• RO022-113001 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope S and W of the Dominican priory of Tulsk (RO022-114002-), bordering a S-N section of Ogulla stream at W. An area of c. 6 ha (c. 15 acres) has some rectangular fields (dims c. 30m x 50m to c. 50m x c. 100m) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 3m; H 0.2m). A mill-race (Wth c. 2m) (RO022-113003-) which is partly stone-lined runs parallel with Ogulla stream (L c. 150m) and rejoins it c. 50m E of the point where the stream turns NE. Running S from the graveyard (RO022-114008-) is a fragment of a relict road (RO022-113002-) (Wth c. 10m; L c. 100m). An aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVH 96) shows this road extending further S (L c. 200m) but curving to the E until it meets the S-N Roscommon - Tulsk road (N61), but the road is continued N towards rath (RO022-114003-) by the relict road (RO022-114010-). This portion does not survive. Just S of the graveyard the road was crossed by an E-W relict road (RO022-113004-) (L c. 370m), visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVH 96), but this is barely traceable as a slight depression (Wth c. 15m). (O'Conor et al. 1996) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-113002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope to the S of the Dominican priory of Tulsk (RO022-114002-). A fragment of a road (Wth c. 10m; L c. 100m) runs S from the SE angle of the graveyard (RO022-114008-). An aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVH 96) shows the road extending further S (L c. 200m) but curving to the E until it meets the N-S Tulsk - Roscommon road (N 61) (total L c. 450m). This portion does not survive, but the road is continued N towards rath (RO022-114003-) by the road (RO022-114010-) and it is crossed by the E-W relict road (RO022-113004-) just S of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-113003 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  On level ground on the E bank of the S-N Ogulla stream at W, and part of the field system (RO022-113001-). A mill-race (Wth c. 2m) runs parallel with Ogulla stream (L c. 250m), rejoining it c. 50m E of the point where the stream turns NE. (O'Conor et al. 1996) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-113004 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope S and W of the Dominican priory of Tulsk (RO022-114002-). Just S of the graveyard (RO022-114008-) the road (RO022-113002-) is crossed by an E-W road, visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVH 96). This can be traced as far as a S-N section of Ogulla Stream(L c. 375m), but it is barely traceable as a slight depression (Wth c. 15m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-114001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying position on the NW bank of the SW-NE Ogulla River, c. 30m to the SE. It was thought that this was the castle built by O'Conor Roe in 1406 (Gormley 1989, 33-4), but this is now likely to be the tower house (RO022-114011-) at the rath (RO022-114003-). This is a circular grass-covered rubble mound with an irregular surface (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S; H 1.5m at N to 3.5m at S). Cut stones from a window were found in 1987 and re-buried (SMR file). Archaeological testing (04E0939) c. 100m to the SW in Grange townland failed to recover any related archaeological material (Read 2007). Rath (RO022-114003-) is c. 60m to the SE and the priory (RO022-114006-) is c. 120m to the SSW, on the other side of the stream. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-114003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise on the SE bank of the SW-NE Ogulla River. Subcircular grass-covered mound (dims of top 34.7m E-W; 29.8m N-S; dims of base 45m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by scarps (H 1.5-1.8m E-S to 2.3m at W and 5m at N), with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 5m; D c. 0.5m) E-S. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter has been damaged at SW. Tobernakirky well (RO022-114004-), a natural spring (diam. c. 10m), is immediately NW of the mound with a stream flowing N to the river. Archaeological testing (97E0030) c. 40m to the SW failed to produce any related material (Walsh 1998). From 2002 the rath became a focus of the Discovery Programme's medieval rural settlement module. Remote sensing surveys in 2003 revealed a roadway (RO022-114010-) (Wth c. 10m; L c. 50m) bordered by low earthen banks approaching from the S, and later field banks in the vicinity, together with anomalies suggesting stonework on the E part of the mound. Excavation (04E0850) beginning in 2004 exposed the base of a rectangular tower, probably a tower house (RO022-114011-) (ext. dim. c. 20m NNW-SSE; c. 10m ENE-WSW) with strong walls (at SW: Wth 1.8m) on a wide foundation (Wth c. 3m). It has a rounded corner at NE and a base batter, and is straddling the E side of the mound. The tower is divided into a small N room and larger S room, which itself is divided into two, and there is no clear evidence of a doorway. There is a garderobe chute in the E wall, and subsequently a building (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 9m N-S) was added to the E of the tower over the in-filled fosse (Brady 2009, 23-4). Further excavation in 2005 and 2006 removed the late 16th century layers post-dating the destruction of the castle, including a small oval feature, probably a late house-site or shelter (RO022-114012-) (dims c. 7m E-W; c. 4m N-S) at the N edge of the mound. During 2007 disturbed contexts containing early medieval material from the W edge of the rath were recovered including ring-brooches, glass beads and bone pins dating from the 10th-11th century. These layers may have been truncated at E by a large fosse surrounding the castle, but some of the rath bank with an internal revetment is preserved within the foundations of the castle. A number of occupation levels associated with the rath were glimpsed together with two fire-pits that may be from a corn-drying kiln. On the W side of the rath 1.2m of soil was introduced to raise the level of the rath, and a trench was dug through this, cutting off the E edge of the rath. The rath may have been sited on a prehistoric habitation site. (Brady 2011, 309-10) The castle (RO022-114001-) is c. 60m to the NW on the other side of the stream and the priory (RO022-114006-) with the Bingham tower house (RO022-114009-) is c. 110m to the SW. Fulachta fia (RO022-115----; RO022-116----) are c. 120m to the NE and c. 80m to the ENE respectively. (Knox 1911, 225-8; Brady 2003; Brady and Gibson 2005; Brady 2007; 2009; 2011) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 June 2012

• RO022-114004 Well
  Description

  Toberkirky well, a natural spring well, is immediately NW of the rath (RO022-114003-) and had a stream flowing N to the SW-NE Ogulla River, c. 30m to the W, but the well is not now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-114006 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  An ancient church may have existed at Tulsk since it is listed in the Registry of Clonmacnoise (O'Donovan 1856-7, 451), and such a church might be that listed as Tulagh in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223). A Dominican friary dedicated to St Patrick was founded in 1448 by either by Fedlimid mac Fedlimid O'Conor or Fedlimid MacDowell (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 230-1), probably the former (McDermott 2016), but nothing is known of its history and it may have been derelict by 1582 when Sir Charles Bingham established a garrison at Tulsk (O'Conor, 2007, 196). The tower house (RO022-114009-) in the chancel may have been built then or in 1595 when Sir Richard Bingham built fortifications at Tulsk and placed them under the command of Capt. George Lane. It is situated on a gentle N-facing slope. (Gormley 1989, 38-44) Only the S wall (surviving L c. 28m) with the remains of one window, and fragments of the W and N walls (int. dim. 7.25m N-S) survive of the undifferentiated nave and chancel church, forming the earliest construction phase in the mid-15th century. In the later 15th century two pointed arches springing from a central cylindrical pillar give access to a S transept (ext. dims 12m N-S; 8m E-W) towards the W end of the S wall. There are mason's marks on the E corbel of the E arch and the SW side of the pillar, but the tracery of the S transept window, which had three lights, is missing. The top (dims 2.15m x 0.35m plus; T 0.2m) of the tomb (RO022-114007-) of Frances Gardiner, dated 1679, is almost buried in the SW corner of the transept. A crucifixion plaque (RO022-114014-) (dims 1.06m x 1.06m) over the arms of O'Conor Roe is built into the inner face of the S wall of the transept over the grave of John O'Conor of Tonroe, who died in 1777. An armorial plaque of O'Kelly (RO022-114015-) (dims 0.65m x 0.57m), probably 18th century in date, is built into the inner face of the W transept wall. The W wall of Bingham's tower house (RO022-114009-) and adjacent fragments of the N and S walls survive to three storeys. There was a doorway in the N wall at the ground floor from the church period, which is partly blocked by the W wall of the tower hose, and there are fireplaces in the W wall at the first and second floors. There was a spiral stairs in the NW angle, but there was no vaulting. The church and tower house are within as subrectangular graveyard (RO022-114008-) (dims c. 120m N-S; c. 90m E-S) which contains almost 50 dressed stones re-used as gravemarkes, including fragments of a cloister arcade, which may have been N of the church, and from the S transept window (Brady et al. 2005). Field system (RO022-113001-) extends off to the SW. The castle (RO022-114001-) is c. 120m to the NNE and rath (RO022-114003-) is c. 110m to the NE. See the attached view of the S transept from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 December, 2011

• RO022-114007 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  In the Dominican Priory (RO022-114006-) at Tulsk. The top (dims 2.15m x 0.35m plus; T 0.2m) of the tomb of Frances Gardiner, dated 1679, is almost buried in the SW corner of the transept. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 December 2011

• RO022-114008 Graveyard
  Description

  On a N-facing slope surrounding the Dominican priory of Tulsk (RO022-114006-). Subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 120m NW-SE; c. 90m NE-SW) containing almost 50 architectural fragments (RO022-114013-) from the abbey. (Brady et al. 2005) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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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.

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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