Doonis

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonis, from 99 m² to 284,940 m² (28.49 ha, 70.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonis in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Doonis 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• WM015-003 Crannog
  Description

  Located 20m E of the present E shoreline of Doonis Lough, but was originally c. 50m W of the scarp of original shoreline. Doonis Lough is a small lake 400m S of Lough Ree. This crannóg was described by O'Sullivan (2004, 53-4) as following; 'a small, low cairn (dims. 17m NNE-SSW x 11m E-W; H 1.6m/ 0.5m above water level) of small stones, clay and timber in shallow water (1m depth), originally c. 50m from the shoreline. The crannóg was built by laying a primary platform of large (diam. 0.1-0.15m) roundwood alder, ash and birch logs directly on the lake muds (an organic-rich grey-brown silt or gytta soil). An upper platform of radially laid oak roundwoods (diam. 0.08-0.12m) was laid across this foundation. The cairn of stones was laid across these timber beams, retained by a vertical roundwood palisade that surrounds the site. The crannog’s upper surface is level, with an even profile with sharply sloping sides. The cairn itself is built of small, angular fist-sized stones (L 6-8cm), larger pebbles and some larger (L 0.6-0.8m) irregular limestone slabs, all of which lie exposed on the surface and in the shallow water surrounding the island. The enclosing features include a possible irregular kerb on the south and east sides, while the vertical wooden palisade includes an inner row of slow-grown (60-80 years old) ash roundwood poles (diam. 0.08-0.12m). There are also occasional vertical posts in the stones and muds 2-3m out from the island (apparently driven to depths of 1m. A single, loose vertical post (diam. 0.08m, L 0.7m) from the enclosing palisade was inspected on the east side of the crannóg. This was a roundwood ash pole, sharpened to a chisel-shaped point, using a metal axe wielded at very shallow angles. The toolmarks on the worked end are small (L 0.03m, Wth 4m), slightly concave with clean junctions between each toolmark. These appear to have been made by a small bronze axe, possibly of Middle or Late Bronze Age type. Burnt bone fragments and unburnt bone, (apparently mostly of bird) is visible in the eroded section of the crannog’s cairn material on the west and east sides. A possible wooden artefact (a charred and carved piece of bucket or tub fragment) lies in the water on the E shore of the crannóg. The crannóg is now overgrown by young alder trees and rushes, and is surrounded by reedbeds'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan. Date of upload: 6 March 2017

• WM015-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on elevated N-facing slope of rising ground. Ringfort (WM015-007---) 150m to S. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The bank has been almost completely levelled at N, where the perimeter is intersected by a NW-SE field fence. The interior slopes gently from SW-NE. In the centre of the monument a mound of field clearance stones is visible, with a low bank extending to SW from the W end of this mound towards the ringfort bank. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• WM015-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on E facing slope of a hill with wide views of the surrounding countryside from N-E-S. Ringfort (WM015-006---) 150m to N, ringfort (WM015-008---) 100m to SW. A circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NW-SE) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse that is visible only at W and N. There is an entrance gap in the inner bank at E. The interior slopes appreciably from W-E. Field fences intersect the monument at N, E, S and W. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• WM015-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of a hill with wide views from-E-S-W. Ringfort (WM015-007---) 100m to NE. A large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a two low banks of earth and stone, with an intervening shallow fosse and an outer shallow fosse. The inner fosse is best preserved at N. The outer bank has been reduced to a scarp at E and W. The interior slopes appreciably from NNE-SSW. A field fence running NW-SE bisects the interior of the monument. A field fence runs E-W along the line of the outer bank and fosse from NNW-NE. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• WM015-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on elevated NE facing slope of a prominent hill in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small circular enclosure (approx. diam. 19m) forming the SW corner of a field. The enclosure is not marked as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. A kink in the field boundary from S-SW reflects part of the original enclosure. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2018

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1880, comprising semi-detached three-bay two-storey house with a gable-fronted single-bay single-storey porch to north end, an attached four-bay single-storey range to the northeast, a detached five-bay single-storey house/outbuilding with blank rear façade to the east and a single-storey whitewashed rubble stone outbuilding with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof to the north. Complex arranged around a central gravel courtyard. Pitched natural slate roofs with central rendered chimneystack to two-storey structure and a brick chimneystack to south gable of detached house/outbuilding to east . Sections of cast-iron rainwater goods remain to buildings to west. Two-storey building and attached single-storey building are smooth rendered over smooth rendered plinth, rubble stone construction to other buildings. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills throughout with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to two-storey structure and replacement fittings elsewhere. Single window with margin glazing to south gable of building to east. Square-headed door openings with glazed timber door with sidelights to two-storey structure, timber battened doors elsewhere. Central segmental-headed carriage arch to eastern building. Set back from small country road with rubble limestone wall to south. Pair of rendered gate piers on round plan with wrought-iron gates to southeast provides entry to farmyard.

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).

No address of the register names Doonis with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Doonis · Dún Aonghasa

Area

3,411,026 m² (341.1 ha, 842.88 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Doonis, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacliffy, Bethlehem, Bleanphuttoge, Cartroncroy, Littletown, Maghera

Placenames

Doonis on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.