Kyle West

Area

41,352 m² (4.14 ha, 10.22 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

Kyle West

Planning applications on this parcel

• 11 Oct 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain indefinitely calving shed extension to existing buildings and Permission to erect cubicle shed extension to existing buildings with adjoining slatted slurry tanks, feeding area, silage wall and base and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22668

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 11 recorded monuments.

• KK030-004 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In area of rough grazing with outcropping bedrock, with a stone revetted pond E of the church (KK030-004001-) and graveyard (KK030-004003-). Coolaghmore is located c. 4.5km S of Callan. The spelling of the placename has varied over the centuries (https://www.logainm.ie/en/26228), including Coilleagh (1363), Coylagh (c. 1450), Cwolaghmore (c. 1559), Cuolagh More (c. 1654) (Curtis 1934, vol. 2, 77; Cal. Lib. Rub. 21-c; F. 100; Simington 1931, vol. 1, 100) and there are also references to ‘Old Coylagh/le Oldquoillach/Oldcoyllagh’ in 1344, 1370 and c. 1418 respectively (Curtis 1932, vol. 1, 326 (deed 769); Curtis 1934, vol. 2, 115; Curtis 1935, vol. 3, 19) and ‘le Nywecoillagh and Nova Coillagh’ in 1375 and c. 1413 respectively (Curtis 1934, vol. 2, 150; ibid, 317). Many of these references relate to land in Coolaghmore and not to the town/borough itself. In the 14th century the borough was also referred to as ‘Sumertown’ and ‘Somerton’ (Curtis 1934, vol. 1, 73-4 (deed 92)). The relationship between Old Coolaghmore and New Coolaghmore is not known, though references to both are contemporary and suggest two settlements, though perhaps geographically they were quite close. In 1344, ‘Richard Somerton of Tibirken grants to Walter son of John son of Hugh fitz Randulf and Thomas son of John son of Hugh fitz Randulf eighteen acres arable and two wood in the tenement of Old Coylagh in Somerton near Callan in the field called “Fernewhille,” as measured and assigned…Given at Erleystown’ (Curtis 1932, vol. 1, 325-6 (deed 769)). A deed from 1363 confirms, ‘the liberties of Sumertoun near Callan’, by Gilbert Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. This deed refers to the same borough as, ‘Sumertoun, Sumertone and Somerton’ and ‘Coilagh and Coillagh’, the former being the newly acquired English name, which did not persist, and the latter being the pre-existing Irish name for the area. In the early 15th century, 1426, the rental of the Earl and Countess of Stafford from ‘the burgagery of Coillagh’ was 26s which compares well with the rent from ‘the burgagery of Jerpoint’ which was 12s, suggesting a thriving settlement. In the will of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond dated 1576, he leaves to Patrick Sherlock, for his lifetime, ‘my town of Cowlagh’. In 1580/81 an indenture between Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond and ‘Nicholas Quemerford of Mogorban’, Co. Tipperary, grants, ‘the town commonly called Colaghmore, Co. Kilkenny, with the castle, meases, etc., belonging to the same, to have and hold to said Nicholas, etc., as Patrick Sherlok held the same, for 21 years at annual rent of 20l [pounds]’. The town/borough subsequently declined and the medieval settlement is no longer obvious. It is likely to have occupied the area in the vicinity of the church (KK030-004001-), where there are low earthen banks (H c. 0.5m), and probably continued southward into the present townland of Coolaghflags. The castle (KK030-004001-) is indicated on the Down Survey barony map of Kells SE of the church, though the precise location is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• KK030-004001 Church
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-) which appears to have been enclosed after 1839, as on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map it is indicated as unenclosed. There are extensive views to the N. The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Kells shows a symbol representing the church and glebe lands at Coolaghmore (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). According to the OS Letters (1839), 'a Patron [is] held here on the first Sunday in September but they have no remembrance of a Patron Saint' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 47). The church, which is aligned E-W, consists of a square chancel (ext. dims. 8.65m E-W; 8.1m N-S; int. dims. 6.5m square; E wall T 1.3m) with a later nave (int. dims. L 14.8m; W 6.3m; wall T 0.72m) occupying the space between the chancel and the residential tower (KK030-004002-) at the W end. The chancel has traces of an inserted flat-headed E doorway (H 2.05m; ext. Wth 1.35m) with a window above it and a window in the N and S wall respectively, the latter with a medieval font (KK030-004005-) at its base. There is a door to the nave at W, with a medieval graveslab (KK030-004004-) inset. There is a second medieval graveslab (KK030-004009-) in graveyard. The nave dates to the mid-18th century and was lit by four opposing lancet windows with brick jambs in the N and S walls, though the most easterly in both walls had brick-arched doorways with small windows above inserted and subsequently blocked up. There are traces of a gallery at the E end. The church was restored in 1818 but decommissioned later in the 19th century (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12403004/coolaghflags-catholic-chapel-old-coolaghmore-coolaghflags-co-kilkenny). A doorway near the NW angle of the nave gives access to the three-storey residential tower. Carrigan (ibid.) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork. See attached: KK030-004001-_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Kells (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• KK030-004002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-) which appears to have been enclosed after 1839, as on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map it is indicated as unenclosed. There are extensive views to the N. The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Kells shows a symbol representing the church and glebe lands at Coolaghmore (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). This tower house is a three-storey residential tower at the W end of a multi-period church (KK030-004001-). The church, which is aligned E-W, consists of a square chancel with a later nave occupying the space between the chancel and the residential tower (ext. dims. 8.3m E-W; 6.6m N-S; wall T 1.15-1.2m; base-batter H 2m; Wth 0.3m) at the W end. The nave dates to the mid-18th century and was lit by four opposing lancet windows with brick jambs in the N and S walls, though the most easterly in both walls had brick-arched doorways with small windows above inserted and subsequently blocked up. There are traces of a gallery at the E end. The church was restored in 1818 but decommissioned later in the 19th century (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12403004/coolaghflags-catholic-chapel-old-coolaghmore-coolaghflags-co-kilkenny). A doorway near the NW angle of the nave gives access to the residential tower, with a mural stair rising in the E wall tower. The mural stair was lit by a window opposite the entrance to the first-floor which has been rebuilt with brick surrounds. The doorways to the lobby and the ground floor have been rebuilt. There is a murder hole above the lobby. An opening (Wth 1.2m) with internal rebate at the E end of the N wall may indicate an earlier doorway at this location. The ground floor was lit by a two windows, each centrally placed in the S and W wall respectively, the former being blocked up and a fireplace inserted. The first-floor was lit by a two-light elliptical-headed window, now blocked, in the N wall with external hood-moulding and a rebuilt window in the W wall, also blocked. A fireplace has been inserted in the S wall and there is a doorway in the SE angle. The second floor was lit by a window in each wall, those in the N, E and S wall have been blocked up while that in the E wall is broken out. There is a wall cupboard (c. 0.4m x 0.4m) in the N wall W of the window. The wall supporting the parapet projects internally along the N and S walls. The W gable survives with the remains of a single bell-cote. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 July 2023

• KK030-004003 Graveyard
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Associated with the multiperiod church (KK030-004001-) of Coolaghmore, an irregularly shaped graveyard which appears to have been enclosed after 1839, as on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map it is defined by a dashed line which indicates that it was unenclosed. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'a Patron [is] held here on the first Sunday in September but they have no remembrance of a Patron Saint' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 47). The graveyard (dims. c. 75m N-S at E, tapering to c. 37m at W; c. 64m E-W) is enclosed by a stone wall with an entrance gate in the SE angle. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336), noted two 13th/14th-century coffin-shaped graveslabs (KK030-004010-; KK030-004011-) in the graveyard and another graveslab (KK030-004009-) was noted c. 7m S of the church during ASI fieldwork. The majority of the headstones in the graveyard are located S of the church, though there are some to the N of the church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• KK030-004004 Graveslab
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Within a multiperiod church (KK030-004001-). The church, which is aligned E-W, consists of a square chancel with a later nave occupying the space between the chancel and the residential tower (KK030-004002-) at the W end. There is a door connecting the chancel to the nave, into which this medieval graveslab (KK030-004004-) has been inset. The graveslab (L 1.88m; Wth at top 0.7m; Wth at base 0.66m; T 0.17m) is decorated with an incised interlace or bracelet cross-head within a double-lined circle and has a double-line border around the upper surface. The sides are moulded and include a horizontal band of nail-head decoration, though this does not continue on all sides. There is another roughly rectangular medieval graveslab (KK030-004009-) in graveyard and Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two graveslabs (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• KK030-004005 Font
  Description

  Within the multiperiod church (KK030-004001-) of Coolaghmore. It is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336), as an, 'ancient Baptismal Font, built for safety into the south window of the chancel, is of freestone; it is octagonal and well-cut, on the outside and ornamented on the top surface of the rim. It still retains traces of the iron hinge which secured the lid. The bowl, which is round, is 19 in. [0.48m] wide and 8 in. [0.2m]deep, and is perforated at the bottom'. A sandstone font (total Wth 0.56m; Wth between chamfers 0.42m; ext. H 0.28m) with a low circular pedestal (diam. 0.39m; H 0.09m). The font is octagonal, the corners being chamfered, with a circular basin (Wth 0.49m; D 0.19m) and central drain hole (Wth 0.025m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• KK030-004006 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Sheela-na-gig currently in Rothe House, Kilkenny. Discovered during clearance work in Coolaghmore graveyard (KK030-004003-) containing medieval church (KK030-004001-), and said to have been buried there in early 19th century, after having been discovered in a local holy well (KK030-004006-) (Freitag 2004, 130). Described by Freitag as a figure, ‘carved in the round. Earless, inverted pear-shaped head; facial expression calm, ovoid eyes, wedge nose and slit-mouth. Thin neck, round shoulders; no breasts, but slightly incised ribs. Fingers of right hand just touching vulva, indicated as vertical line and ending in very noticeable deep hole. Left hand (much larger than the other) may hold an object resting on thigh. Peculiar leg position reminiscent of Egremont; left leg almost straight with foot turned inwards, while right leg tightly flexed at knee with heel of foot pointing at pudenda’ (Freitag 2004, 130). Cross-referenced with KK019-026170-. See attached: KK030-004006-_01 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolaghmore_Sheela-na-gig Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2012

• KK030-004008 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to O’Kelly (1985, 142), at Coolaghmore there is, ‘a well in the churchyard [KK030-004003-] field called Tobar an chillín, the little church well, where a pattern is held on the first Sunday in September’. The precise location of this well is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• KK030-004009 Graveslab
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Located c. 7m S of a multiperiod church (KK030-004001-), within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-). This graveslab (visible H 0.64m; Wth 0.6m) is embedded in the ground. It has a chamfered edge and the upper surface appears to be undecorated, apart from a border, defined by a groove, around the top surface, c. 0.02m from the edge. There is another roughly rectangular medieval graveslab (KK030-004010-) in the graveyard and Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two graveslabs (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• KK030-004010 Graveslab
  Description

  Within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-) associated with a multiperiod church (KK030-004001-). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two graveslabs (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork. One of the graveslabs is described as being, 'very small, measuring only 8 or 9 in. [0.2-0.23m] across at the narrow end' (ibid.). The precise location of these coffin-shaped graveslabs within the graveyard is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

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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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

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