Marlfield Road, Clonmel

Area

29,433 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G1 Amenity (Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans) The objective

Townland

Inishlounaght

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 16 recorded monuments.

• TS083-016 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  On flat terrain in river valley of Suir, low-lying. In the 17th century there were two mills in 'Abyneslewnaght' on the land of 'Patricke Goegh of Kilmaniheen in the County of Waterford Esqr Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 307). On this land 'stands the walls of an old Aby, one grist mill and one tuckinge Mill, both lately rebuilt by Thomas Batty of Clonmell Esqr' (ibid.). Abyneslewnaght has been identified with Inishlounaght townland and 200m SW of the site of the abbey, just within Marlfield townland, there was a mill marked 'Abbey Mill' on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map. There is no mill marked on 1950-51 OS revision and the mill has been demolished. However, there are the remains of a wall with lime render which was probably part of the mill complex and which now acts as a field boundary. A fast flowing channelised mill race also survives. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS083-017 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  In the lowlying river valley of the River Suir, c. 400m S of Marlfield village which is two miles W of Clonmel. Cistercian Abbey, founded as a daughter house of Mellifont in 1148, the affiliation was transferred to Monasteranenagh three years later (Stalley 1987, 246). Malachy O'Phelan, Prince of the Decies and Donal Mor O'Brien, king of Limerick, re-endowed the monastery in 1187 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 135; Stalley 1987, 246). The monastery had daughter houses in Fermoy, Cork; Corcomroe, Clare and Glanawydan, Waterford (Stalley 1987, 246). In 1467 the buildings were in need of repair (ibid.). In 1540 the monastery was dissolved and early the following year 'the jurors reported that the church could be demolished, other buildings being necessary for the farmer, Thomas Butler' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 136). Despite this the walls were standing in the mid-17th century 'Uppon the sd colpe ['Abyneslewnaght'] stands the walls of an old Aby' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 307) and in 1746 the church was described as 'in ruins' (Smith 1746, 48). Though the abbey no longer survives, fragments (TS083-017001-; TS083-017002-; TS083-017003-) are incorportated in the 19th-century C of I church which was built on the site of the monastery (Shee and Watson 1975, 56). A medieval graveslab (TS083-017004-) is embedded in the floor at the threshold of the inner W door. Carpet has been laid in the centre aisle which could not be lifted, there may be more fragments beneath this. There are early graveslabs (TS083-017005-; TS083-017006-) in the associated graveyard. There are no earthworks visible at ground level S of the church and the field to the N is tilled. However, a lidar survey (Steve Davis, UCD, 2006-10) detected earthworks S of the graveyard which probably relate to the abbey complex. This lidar survey also detected rectangular plots running N of the graveyard which appear to form part of a pre-1700 settlement cluster (TS083-017009-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 May 2013

• TS083-017001 Architectural feature
  Description

  Though the Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----) no longer survives, fragments are incorportated in 19th-century C of I church which was built on or near the site of the monastery. These include a Romanesque doorway in the W wall, above the W door. Two orders consist of keeled rolls with scalloped capitals, dated c. 1180-1200 (Stalley 1987, 246-7). The engaged columns and bases are missing. Vegetal decoration springing from the capitals in the hollow mould. The outer order and hood-moulding are 15th-century additions. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS083-017002 Architectural feature
  Description

  Though the Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----) no longer survives, fragments are incorportated in the 19th-century C of I church which was built on or near the site of the monastery. These include, in the centre of the S wall, the remains of a sandstone, round-headed opening (Wth 2m), possibly traceried with diagonal line tooling. It could have been a window or a tomb niche. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS083-017003 Architectural feature
  Description

  Though the Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----) no longer survives, fragments are incorportated in the 19th-century C of I church which was built on or near the site of the monastery. These include a five-light limestone window of perpendicular-style, dating to the 15th century which is inserted in the E gable and functions as the E window. It has punch tooling in vertical rows with drafted margins. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS083-017004 Graveslab
  Description

  Though the Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----) no longer survives a medieval graveslab has been incorporated in the 19th-century C of I church which was built on or near the site of the monastery. This 13th-/14th-century graveslab is embedded in the floor at the threshold of the inner W door. It survives in two pieces, the lower portion being upside down. The upper portion of the slab (L 0.73m; Wth 0.69m), at the N end of the doorway, is decorated with an incised four-armed cross with trefoil terminals. The lower portion of the slab (L 0.53m; Wth 0.6m) has an incised cross-shaft which rests on a stepped base. There is a latin inscription, in Lombardic script, along the sinister side which reads: HIC IACET MA...I(G?) . AICIET':DS:. (Maher 1997, 66). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 January 2012

• TS083-017005 Graveslab
  Description

  Incorporated in the graveyard wall S of the church which is built on the site of the former Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----) is a 16th- /early 17th-century tapering graveslab (L 1.9m; Wth at the top 0.49m; Wth at base 0.4m at the base; though it is 0.57m at its widest point). The slab is decorated, in relief, with a seven-armed segmental-headed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. There is a three-barred knop at the base of the cross-head. The cross-shaft rests on a stepped base. There is a latin inscription, in Black Letter script, on the sinister side of the slab which begins beneath the cross-head. The HIC is in relief but the rest is incised. The inscription is quite worn, it has been transcribed and translated by Maher (1997, 66-67) as: HIC IACET PIUS V(I)(R) D(U?)S L/IBA..ER.... (Here lies Pius, noble husband?). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 January 2012

• TS083-017006 Graveslab
  Description

  In the graveyard E of the C of I church on or near the site of the former Cistercian abbey (TS083-017----). A sandstone slab (L 1.03m above ground; Wth 0.51m; T 0.16m) which has been embedded in the ground upside down and reused as a headstone. The sinister edge is missing. It is decorated with a deeply incised cross-shaft and quite a crudely incised cross-base, triangular in form, which ends c. 0.17m from the broken base of the slab. There is no evidence of an inscription. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 January 2012

• TS083-017008 Graveyard
  Description

  In the lowlying river valley of the River Suir, c. 400m S of Marlfield village which is two miles W of Clonmel. Associated with Inishlounaght Cistercian Abbey (TS083-017----), this roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 150m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) is situated at the eastern end of an avenue (L c. 90m) and surrounds the present C of I church. Three early graveslabs (TS083-017005-; TS083-017006-; TS083-017010-), portion of an effigial tomb (TS083-017012-) and a panel from a chest tomb (TS083-017011-) have been identified in the graveyard. A number of features (TS083-017001-; TS083-017002-; TS083-017003-) from the Cistercian Abbey and a medieval graveslab (TS083-017004-) are located within the C of I church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 September 2017

• TS083-017009 Settlement cluster
  Description

  In flat terrain in the lowlying river valley of the River Suir, on the S side of the modern village of Marlfield between the main E-W road and the C of I church and graveyard. A lidar survey (Steve Davis, UCD, 2006-10) in the vicinity of the C of I church and graveyard at Marlfield revealed a series of rectangular plots (total L N-S c. 300m; each plot L c. 100m E-W; Wth 30-35m), E of the N-S road to the church and N of the church avenue. There are a further 4 plots (L c. 170m N-S; Wth 30-35m), running N of the graveyard boundary. On the 1st (1840) ed. 6-inch OS map a row of houses is depicted running N-S, on the E of the N-S road to the church for 110m near the junction between this road and the main E-W road through Marlfield village. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 May 2013

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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).

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