Mace

Area

1,638,925 m² (163.89 ha, 404.99 acres)

Buildings

10 buildings touch it, 1,179 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

Mace

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 2 recorded monuments.

• WM006-038 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  Kilmichael monastery belonging to the Third Order of St. Francis was founded by the Petit family who were granted the barony of Magheradernon in the late 12th century by Hugh de Lacy, lord of Meath (Stevens and Moll 1722, 199). Recorded in 1976 as 'the ruins now consist of the grass-covered foundations of a fairly large rectangular structure (ext. dims. 24m E-W by 9.4m N-S) orientated east-west and having a N extension (transept feature) (ext. dims. 11.2m N-S by 8.3m E-W). The low banks are best preserved on the SW and NW sides. Two indifferent gaps on the S side and on the W end may represent door opes. There is some visible stonework, but no facing stones. A slight internal mounding towards the W end may represent an internal division. There is also a vague gap in the N side towards the W end. The annexe/transept feature at the E end on the N side is also comprised of very low grass-covered stone footings. Some slight gaps in these banks, one of which at the E corner may represent an opening. In both structures the internal moundings lie directly alongside the footings and so probably consist of collapse. Extending out from the NW corner of the main structure is a low double bank on the slope. Another low bank extending in E direction out from the SE corner for some 15m. Faint traces of low earthworks to the N and E may indicate the location of some of the domestic buildings. Further away to the S and on the higher knoll to the NE are traces of ancient field fences. The church remains are located on top of a low limestone outcrop surrounded by poorly drained pasture land' (SMR file). 150m to the SSE are the remains of an L-shaped earthwork (WM006-039----). Although indicated in the OS 6-inch map as a 'Nunnery (in Ruins)' these remains mark the site of the Franciscan Friary of Kilmacahill which was dissolved in 1540 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 267, 272). The OS probably made a cartographic error and mistakenly identified the site of this friary with a Nunnery in Kinard (SMR file). This friary was founded by the Petit family who were the Anglo-Norman barons of Maghertierne (Magheradernon) (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 272). In 1548 the farm of this friary which was valued at 26s. 8d. was sold to Edmund Nugente (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 272). The lands of the friary then passed into the hands of the Nangle family of Ballysax, Co. Kildare. In 1611 Robert Nangle of Ballysax, Co. Kildare surrendered to the Crown the 'site, &c. of the late monastery of Kilmacaile, containing the ruinous walls of a church, a small church-yard, 5 cottages, 40a arable, 12a pasture, 3a moor in the town and fields of Kilmacaile' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 208). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

• WM006-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the top of a natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land, 15m S of the roadway which marks the boundary between Mace and Kilmacahill or Caraun townlands. Possible deserted medieval settlement earthworks (WM006-039----) 140m to N. Franciscan friary (WM006-038----) 370m to NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank, best preserved at N, and a slight fosse. The bank, which has several disturbance gaps, appears to have been steepened from NE-S-SSW. Possible entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NW. The interior slopes slightly from NE-SW, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run NNE-SSW. Post-1700 field boundaries intersect the monument at S, SW & NW. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 January 2017

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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.