Larkinstown

Area

122,072 m² (12.21 ha, 30.16 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 248 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

Larkinstown

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 7 recorded monuments.

• WM012-001 Standing stone (present location)
  Description

  Situated on grassland. Ringfort (WM012-002----) 40m to E, chapel (WM012-003----) 190m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘standing stone’. A tall roughly dressed limestone pillar (H 1.6m; Dims. 0.25m x 0.21m) stands at the end of a field fence running NE-SW, a short distance from where it is marked on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small round depression in one face suggests that it was used as a gate post. Standing stone was possibly moved from location marked on 1837 map to present location in modern times. Cross-referenced with WM012-210----. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on SSE facing slope of rising ground in grassland. Standing stone (WM012-001----) 40m to E. Chapel (WM012-003----) 180m to S. Bog 350m to W. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 39m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. It is best preserved from W-N, fragmentary elsewhere and reduced to a scarp from E-S-SW. It is intersected by a field fence running NW-SE from N-NE. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE. A low bank in the SW quadrant extending from the inside of the bank towards the interior is of unknown function. This monument is situated at the N side of a complex of earthworks which extend over an area of approx. 7 hectares. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-003 Church
  Description

  Medieval church of Tyfarnham depicted as an upstanding building and annotated as a 'Chapel' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a churchyard (WM012-003001-). Depicted as 'Chapel site of' on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Chapel building levelled between these two dates. Only the grass covered wall footings of this chapel building are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The levelled chapel or church stands in a field covered with numerous earthworks which may represent a clustered settlement (WM012-003002-). Immediately S of the chapel there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parishes. The chapel is depicted as a church on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes where it is depicted standing beside a building, possibly the 'Halll' (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of Tyfarnham recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-003001 Churchyard
  Description

  Depicted as an upstanding building and annotated as a 'Chapel' (WM012-003----) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a roughly D-shaped churchyard. Only the grass covered wall footings of this church building and cropmark of the churchyard enclosure are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The levelled chapel stands in a field covered with numerous earthworks which may represent a clustered settlement. Immediately S of the church there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes. The chapel is depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parish where it is depicted standing beside a building (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish of Tyfarnan recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-003002 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  A church (WM012-003----) and a medieval hall or building (WM012-023----) are depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Tyfarnham church is annotated as a 'Chapel' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a churchyard (WM012-003001-). The levelled chapel stands in a field covered with numerous rectilinear earthworks clustered to the NE and which are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The earthworks appear to form a series of small rectangular enclosures and may represent a clustered settlement contemporaneous with the church and hall. In the NE corner of this field are the remains of a square-shaped enclosure . Immediately S of the chapel there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. Cultivation ridges running roughly E-W and N-S are also visible on the aerial photographs. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2017

• WM012-023 Building
  Description

  Situated on the S face of a slight ridge, overlooked by higher ground to the N, with poorly drained lands to the W. Stream running roughly N-S lies 40m to E. Tyfarnham church site (WM012-003----) and surrounding earthworks lie 150m to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small rectilinear-shaped earthwork, and annotated as a ‘fort’. A rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 12m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) enclosed by a slight earth and stone bank, and a narrow shallow fosse, with entrance gap (Wth 0.9m) at E. This earthwork appears to be located in the N quadrant of a large sub-triangular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. It is not clear if this large sub-triangular-shaped earthwork is a pre-1700 archaeological monument or the remains of post-1700 land reclamation works. Tyfarnham church is depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parish where it is depicted standing beside a building (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish of Tyfarnan recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) This rectangular-shaped earthwork may represent the levelled remains of the 'Hall'. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-025 Earthwork
  Description

  There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. In poorly drained grassland. No surface remains visible of any archaeological feature in area marked on the RMP map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

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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