Inchmore

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchmore, from 563 m² to 88,210 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Inchmore 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 Inchmore 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

• WM015-011 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  Situated on the N side of Inchmore Island on Lough Ree. A monastery was reputedly founded here by St. Laobhán (Ó Riain 2011, 390-1). He was one of 47 children whose mother was Cuman daughter of Dallbhrónach, maternal aunt to Saint Brighid of Kildare, whose was womb had been blessed by St. Patrick (ibid.). His feastday fell on the 9th of August (ibid.). According to Ware a priory of Augustinian Canons was established on the island, probably some time before 1170 AD (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 179). In 1103 the Annals of the Four Masters recorded the death of 'The Lector Ua Connmhaigh, of the family of Inis-mor' (O'Donovan 1856, 973). After the dissolution of the monasteries the land of Inchmore was granted to Richard Barnwell (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 179). In 1641 the lands of Inchmore were in the joint possession of Lord Viscount Dillon, Gerald Dillon and John Dillon (NLI MS 723-4). Monument depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘Inchmore Church’. A narrow inlet, 60m to N is annotated as ‘Church Harbour’. Poorly preserved remains consist of a simple rectangular structure (Int. dims. 4.55m N-S x 9m E-W) comprising well built mortared walls (T 0.85m), with only the W gable upstanding and lower courses of the remaining walls surviving elsewhere. . A possible opening in N wall towards E end, but very uncertain. No dressed stones, windows or doorway visible. No surrounding earthworks visible. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• WM015-011001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the N side of Inchmore Island on Lough Ree. A monastery was reputedly founded here by St. Laobhán (Ó Riain 2011, 390-1). He was one of 47 children whose mother was Cuman daughter of Dallbhrónach, maternal aunt to Saint Brighid of Kildare, whose was womb had been blessed by St. Patrick (ibid.). His feastday fell on the 9th of August (ibid.). Traces of enclosure to N and W of medieval church ruins (WM015-011----) may be the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 18). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 9 October 2015

• WM022-001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on high ground, in pasture, at the S end of Inchmore Island, with excellent views of the surrounding Lough Ree and mainland to E, S and W. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan Map. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial rectangular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a much smaller, D-shaped area which is open to SE. Bivallate enclosure described in 1976 as an oval-shaped area (int. diam. 53m NE-SW) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The low earth and stone inner bank is best preserved from W-N-E, but is very defaced E-S-W by modern gaps and excavations. A wide, shallow intervening fosse and a low outer bank are visible from W-N-E. In the SE sector, the outer bank and fosse extend outwards from the site and appear to enclose a small crescent-shaped annexe (dims. 20m NW-SE) which may be a secondary feature. This annexe defined by a scarp at SE and by slight traces of a fosse and an outer bank at E. The interior of the monument has a gentle NW-facing slope and there are the remains of deep cultivation ridges running E-W. There are traces of a possible internal division across the SW sector within which are faint traces of cultivation ridges running N-S. There are no clear indications of an original entrance. Field fences run alongside to E and S. Outline of enclosure with annexe to SE is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inchmore.

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 Inchmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Inchmore

Area

587,475 m² (58.75 ha, 145.17 acres)

Civil parish

Bunown, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Muckanagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Inchmore (tiernan)

Placenames

Inchmore 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.