Gaddaghanstown

Area

189,125 m² (18.91 ha, 46.73 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it, 722 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

Gaddaghanstown

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 3 recorded monuments.

• WM032-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1976 and described as 'a small roughly circular enclosure (diam. 23m N-S; 23m E-W) bounded by a low bank of earth and stone with very slight traces of a shalllow fosse on the N and W. The bank is best preserved on the N and W and is absent on the E where there is a low scarp at the edge of the site. The bank is defaced by animal tracks on the N, W and S but there is no sign of an original entrance. The interior is slightly uneven but there are no internal features. The site is on the N end of a N-S ridge in fairly good pasture. It has extensive views in all directions. Friary site (WM032-028001-) located 75m to the SSE' (SMR File 10/08/1976). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 February 2013

• WM032-028 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Monument surveyed by ASI in 1976 and described as following; 'A rectangular embankment of earth and stone with the earth covered footings of a stone wall at its edge on the N and w and probably also the S. There is an external fosse with an outer bank. There is no indication of the stone wall on the E but the ground slopes down here and it is very faint on the S. The fosse and external bank are best preserved on the N and W, and are faint on the S. On the E the fosse and bank seem to be incorporated in a field fence which runs (roughly N-S) along this side of the site. This latter field fence may also incorporate a boundary bank running to the S enclosing one side of a field to the S of this site. There is what may be a hut site in the SE corner of the modern field but this is rather doubtful. Consisting of a roughly rectangular depression with some evidence of stone in the sides. There are two causeways across the fosse, one on the W and the other on the S and both may be original entrances. A later field bank running E-W begins at the outer edge of the W causeway and runs to the W for a short distance. The interior is fairly level in the W but slopes towards the E. At the S there are fairly substantial remains, grass covered stone footings of a rectangular structure with some grass covered collapse around it. The NW corner of this feature survives to a height of approx. 2m and part of its E wall also survives to a height of c. 1.5m. The walls are built of horizontal courses of undressed stone bonded with mortar. There is a small short wall running out from the N wall of this structure and forms 2 bays against the inside of the N wall. There is a shallow depression with very faint and indefinite traces of a bank(s) running E-W across it in the N half of the interior. There is a small rectangular depression just N of the site but this is probably due to fairly recent disturbance. The S, N, E and NW sides of this site are slightly overgrown with trees and thorn bushes. The site is at the S end of a N-S ridge in fairly good pasture and there are extensive views to the W, S and E '(SMR File 10/08/1976). According to Swan (1988, 12) the circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch represented the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure. However it is possible that this earthwork represents the remains of the precinct boundary wall of the Dominican Friary (WM032-028001-) rather than an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 August 2015

• WM032-028001 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  Monument surveyed by ASI in 1976 and described as following; 'A rectangular embankment of earth and stone with the earth covered footings of a stone wall at its edge on the N and w and probably also the S. There is an external fosse with an outer bank. There is no indication of the stone wall on the E but the ground slopes down here and it is very faint on the S. The fosse and external bank are best preserved on the N and W, and are faint on the S. On the E the fosse and bank seem to be incorporated in a field fence which runs (roughly N-S) along this side of the site. This latter field fence may also incorporate a boundary bank running to the S enclosing one side of a field to the S of this site. There is what may be a hut site in the SE corner of the modern field but this is rather doubtful. Consisting of a roughly rectangular depression with some evidence of stone in the sides. There are two causeways across the fosse, one on the W and the other on the S and both may be original entrances. A later field bank running E-W begins at the outer edge of the W causeway and runs to the W for a short distance. The interior is fairly level in the W but slopes towards the E. At the S there are fairly substantial remains, grass covered stone footings of a rectangular structure with some grass covered collapse around it. The NW corner of this feature survives to a height of approx. 2m and part of its E wall also survives to a height of c. 1.5m. The walls are built of horizontal courses of undressed stone bonded with mortar. There is a small short wall running out from the N wall of this structure and forms 2 bays against the inside of the N wall. There is a shallow depression with very faint and indefinite traces of a bank(s) running E-W across it in the N half of the interior. There is a small rectangular depression just N of the site but this is probably due to fairly recent disturbance. The S, N, E and NW sides of this site are slightly overgrown with trees and thorn bushes. The site is at the S end of a N-S ridge in fairly good pasture and there are extensive views to the W, S and E '(SMR File 10/08/1976). There were four houses of refuge for friars opened in the Diocese of Meath about 1713 (Moran 1961, 9-15). The field in which the house was built is almost level except for a low ridge. On this low ridge two small raths had been built. The friary was built within one of these raths (WM032-028----). The choice of this site for the friary may be explained by the presence of a souterrain. The corbelled roof of the souterrain has now collapsed. Friarstown was probably one of the houses which were demolished by the British in 1732 (Moran 1961, 9-15). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 February 2013

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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