Farrancallin

Area

30,998 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 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

Farrancallin

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 4 recorded monuments.

• WM012-076 Church
  Description

  National Monument No. 265. Taghmon derived from the Irish Tigh/Teach Munna meaning the house of Munna a late sixth / early seventh century saint who died in 635. This saint was the son of Tulchán and has been variously assigned to belonging to either the Ceinéal Conaill of Donegal, the Corca Raoidhe [Corkaree] of Westmeath and the Corca Oiche of Limerick (Ó Riain 2011, 505). His feastday is commemorated on the 21st of October (Ibid., 507). Church building standing beside castle (WM012-074----) depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Corkaree Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). Medieval fortified church known as St. Munna's Church stands in the centre of a graveyard (WM012-076001-) with Taghmon Castle (WM012-074----) 150m to NW, motte and bailey (WM012-079----) castle 350m to SE. The church and graveyard appears to have been built on the site of the early Christian monastery (WM012-076003-) founded by St. Munna. Described in 1980 as following; ‘This is a rectangular church with a residential tower at the west end. Church and tower are the same width and appear to be contemporary. The church is entered by a gothic doorway of limestone with a mutilated sandstone head of a bishop above, at the west end of the north wall of the church. There is a blocked up doorway at the west end of the south wall. There are two single ogee headed windows in both the north and south walls. The windows are of sandstone with moulded hoods. The more westerly window in the north wall has a sheela-na-gig (WM012-076002-) above it (also of sandstone). The east window is a large pointed opening outlined by dressed limestone which appears to be 19th c. date. The original tracery and mullions are missing. The lower courses of the outer walls of the church and tower are battered and rise to their full height with stepped battlements protecting a wall walk. Inside the church is roofed with a high barrel vault. There is a fine piscina in the east end of the south wall. There are two aumbries to the west of it and a large aumbry in the east end of the north wall. The window opes are widely splayed within. There is no sign of a division between nave and chancel. The lower floor of the tower is vaulted and is entered only from the church by a simple pointed doorway at the southern end of the west wall. A doorway, simple pointed, at the north end of the west wall leads to a spiral stairs leading to apartments in the tower. A vaulted roof covers the second floor and forms the floor of the third floor. Each floor contains a rectangular room and a very small room off it. In all the tower is four storeys high. The upper storey, now open to the sky. Corbels and the line of a wooden roof can be still be seen above the top floor. A blocked doorway on the stairs leads out to the top part of the church. There appears to have been an apartment below the vaulted rood originally. A small slit window exists high in the south wall near the west end. This would have lighted an attic room above the nave. There is a garderobe in the west wall of the small room on the third floor. At the north end of the west wall of the tower (outside) is a sandstone head. The building measures 9.2m N-S by 20.8m E-W. The tower being 6m wide E-W. The church being 14.8m E-W (outside measurements). The church is set within a roughly rectangular graveyard (WM012-076001-) bounded by a bank. The graveyard contains a number of 18th c., 19th c. and 20th c. tombstones’ (SMR File, 24/10/1980; CUCAP BDV078). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 January 2016

• WM012-076001 Graveyard
  Description

  St. Munna's Church (WM012-076----) standing in centre of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (dims. 58m N-S; 63m E-W) with Taghmon Castle (WM012-074----) 150m to NW and motte and bailey (WM012-079----) 350m to SE. Described in 1980 as following; ‘The church is set within a roughly rectangular graveyard bounded by a bank. The graveyard contains a number of 18th c., 19th c. and 20th c. tombstones’ (SMR File, 24/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 January 2016

• WM012-076002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  St. Munna's Church standing in centre of graveyard (WM012-076001-) with Taghmon Castle (WM012-074----) 150m to NW and motte and bailey (WM012-079----) 350m to SE. Sheela-na-gig located over trefoil window in N wall of 15th century Taghmon church (WM012-076----); not in original location (Freitag 2004, 142). Described in 1980 as following; ‘The more westerly window in the north wall has a sheela-na-gig (WM012-076002-) above it (also of sandstone)’ (SMR File, 24/10/1980). Described by Freitag as a, ‘figure carved on slab in seated position. Big head without ears; pained expression on face, with mouth wide open, baring two rows of teeth. Two indentations for eyebrows and clearly marked nostrils. Big hands clasping tightly flexed knees. Lower legs held apart, revealing big oval pudenda with round hole in middle. Lower part of carving missing’ (Freitag 2004, 142). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 27 January 2015

• WM012-076003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Taghmon derived from the Irish Tigh/Teach Munna meaning the house of Munna a late sixth / early seventh century saint who died in 635. This saint was the son of Tulchán and has been variously assigned to belonging to either the Ceinéal Conaill of Donegal, the Corca Raoidhe [Corkaree] of Westmeath and the Corca Oiche of Limerick (Ó Riain 2011, 505). His feastday is commemorated on the 21st of October (Ibid., 507). Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 10) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the sub-circular form of the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM012-076001-) (CUCAP BDV078). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 August 2015

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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