Boherquill

Area

325,708 m² (32.57 ha, 80.48 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 788 m² on the ground

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

Boherquill

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 2 recorded monuments.

• WM002-019 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on a low E-W ridge in good pasture overlooking moated site (WM002-020----) 110m to the S. An old roadway running E-W runs past the base of the motte on the N side the outline of which is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A building marked as 'Coolnagun Castle' on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map stands 250m to NW. Although designated a motte, this monument could possibly be a platform-type ringfort later re-used as a motte. A fairly high steep-sided flat-topped mound (top diam. c. 13m) defined by a scarp the base of which is enclosed by a fosse with the remains of an external earthen bank which is best preserved from W-N. The outer bank is badly defaced from S-W where it is intersected by a modern field fence, the fosse has been filled inform S-SW. There is a modern gap in the NW sector and traces of a causeway, also modern, across the fosse at S. The top of the mound is very uneven due to disturbance and slip. There is an OS trig. station on the summit of the motte. A wide low bank runs in an E direction from near the S side of the earthwork. The significance of this bank is not obvious. Outside the monument on the N side there are very slight traces of an old field bank running in an E-W direction. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 November 2016

• WM002-020 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on low ridge running N-S on well drained pasture-land with stream 30m to S and motte (WM002-019----) 110m to NNE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small square-shaped field transected by a field boundary at S running E-W. A square-shaped area (dims. 35m NNE-SSW; 35m WNW-SSE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4-10m) mainly reduced to a scarp at S and shallow external fosse (Wth 5-6m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 1-2m) best preserved ay E with causewayed entrance (Wth 5.2m) at N located off centre to E. The interior has a slight slope from NE-SW. The bank is highest on the NE corner where it has a definite raised or rounded profile. This artificially raised area extends along the crest of the bank to the N and slightly so to the E. The corners are fairly sharp particularly NE & NW. The bank is very defaced on the S side where the fosse is barely visible. The fosse on the S side is continued on as an old field ditch to the E & W of the monument. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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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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.