Mace

Area

368,052 m² (36.81 ha, 90.95 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 710 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 4 recorded monuments.

• WM006-044 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained grassland 40m S of the Inny River, which is also the boundary between Bakllycorkey and Rathclittagh townlands. Eel Weir 60m to W on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and Ballycorkey Bridge 100m to NE. No surface remains visible of medieval castle. Depicted as ‘site of castle’ standing inside a square shaped field on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, which also shows that the river was wider at this time. Rectangular field or possible bawn (WM006-044001-) now defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow fosse as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The NW side of this rectangular area is covered by spoil from dredging of the river. Low banks extend SE & E from the rectangular enclosure. A single dressed fragment of limestone of medieval date in the roadside wall near the gateway may have come from the castle. Line of old roadway visible as earthwork in field immediately to SSE of castle site. Several linear earthworks in field to S and E of rectangular enclosure may be related to the medieval castle or could be the remains of post-medieval drainage ditches. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 January 2017

• WM006-044001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained grassland 40m S of the Inny River, which is also the boundary between Bakllycorkey and Rathclittagh townlands. Eel Weir 60m to W on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and Ballycorkey Bridge 100m to NE. No surface remains visible of medieval castle (WM006-044----). Depicted as ‘site of castle’ standing inside a square shaped field on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, which also shows that the river was wider at this time. Rectangular field or possible bawn area (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; 55m NNE-SSW) now defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow fosse as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The NW side of this rectangular area is covered by spoil from dredging of the river. Low banks extend SE & E from the rectangular enclosure. A single dressed fragment of limestone of medieval date in the roadside wall near the gateway may have come from the castle. Line of old roadway visible as earthwork in field immediately to SSE of castle site. Several linear earthworks in field to S and E of rectangular enclosure may be related to the medieval castle or could be the remains of post-medieval drainage ditches. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

• WM006-080 Bridge
  Description

  Depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a multi-arched road bridge crossing the Inny River which marked the townland boundary between Ballycorkey and Rathclittagh and the parish of Kilbixy with Rathaspick. Site of Castle (WM006-044----) located immediately to SSW and eel weir 140m to SW. The present 19th century Ballycorkey Bridge was built on the site of an earlier bridge, parts of which are still visible on either side of the single arch bridge. Ballycorkey Bridge was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Wide-span single-arched road bridge over River Inny, dated 1857. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier bridge to either end (north and south). Constructed using coursed rusticated squared limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to segmental arch. The present bridge replaced an earlier twelve-arch bridge located at this site, at a time when the River Inny was considerably wider at this point (Ordnance Survey Map 1838; Lewis 1837). The sections of the approaches to this bridge, to the north and south, which is supported by buttresses at a number of locations, are probably part of this earlier bridge and may be of considerable antiquity' (NIAH Reg. No. 15400601; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15400601/ballycorkey-bridge-rathclittagh-westmeath) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2022

• WM006-081 Weir - fish
  Description

  Annotated 'Eel Weir' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted on the E side of the river immediately beside the Site of Ballycorkey Castle (WM006-041----). Ballycorkey Bridge stands 140m NE. No surface remains visible of this eel weir which now stands on dry land as the channel of the Inny River was narrowed considerably during the mid 19th-century OPW drainage works. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2022

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.