Drumloose

Area

302,643 m² (30.26 ha, 74.78 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 139 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

Drumloose

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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• WM018-115 Church
  Description

  Situated at W end of a ridge, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Possible ringwork (WM018-114----) lies c. 175m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building annotated ‘Kenny Church (in ruins)’, within E quadrant of graveyard (WM018-115001-). Depicted on the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as the outline of an L-shaped structure, with projecting tower at SE angle. No church is marked at this location on the 17th century Down Survey map of Mullingar parish (NLI, MS 723-4). Possible remains of a nave and chancel church, the nave of which has been levelled and the chancel was possibly converted into a tower house in the late medieval period. Only a low rectangular-shaped platform (dims. 11.8m E-W; 6.9m N-S) defined by the slight remains of wall footings marks the outline of the nave of Kenny Church with the ruins of a two storey high tower house (overall dims. 7.4m E-W; 6.9m N-S) with barrel-vaulted ground floor at E end with projecting stairs turret in SE angle. The walls of the tower (H 5-6m) are built of undressed limestone laid in irregular courses and bonded with a rough mortar. The tower is entered through a pointed archway (Wth 2.3m; H 2.35m) in the centre of W wall which may have been the chancel arch originally. Directly inside the archway to N there is a circular-shaped tower containing a spiral stairs projecting into the ground floor, access to the stairs has been partially blocked-up. Originally this stairs gave access to the upper floors of the tower house. The springing of a stone barrel vaulted roof over the ground floor with traces of wicker centring are visible at the W end over the doorway. Put-log holes in the N and S walls indicate a floor or loft below the vault. The east wall has been rebuilt in more recent times and there is a projecting turret (overall dims. 2.7m E-W; 2.4m N-S) on the SE corner. There is no entry to this at ground floor level and it is completely obscured on the exterior by a dense growth of ivy. This may have been a garderobe tower. Possibly the remains of a nave and chancel church with the chancel converted into a tower house in the late medieval period. See attached sketch plan of the monument drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

• WM018-115001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a ridge, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Townland boundary lies 25m to W, possible ringwork (WM018-114----) c. 175m to SW. Kenny graveyard consists of a subrectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 32m N-S x 60m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at S. The ruins of Kenny Church (WM018-115----) stands in E quadrant of graveyard. A crude limestone cross (WM018-115003-) is visible in SE quadrant. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the 1700 onwards. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

• WM018-115002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Curve of earthworks in field to E of church (WM018-115----) graveyard (WM018-115001-) possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 24). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 October 2015

• WM018-115003 Cross
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a ridge, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. In SE quadrant of Kenny graveyard (WM018-115001-), S of Kenny Church (WM018-115----) is a crude limestone cross (H 0.6m; basal Wth 0.26m; max. T 0.19m) with short expanding arms (overall Wth 0.4m) lying inside the Daly family burial plot. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

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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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.