Mountmurray

Area

148,535 m² (14.85 ha, 36.7 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

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

Mountmurray

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.

• WM011-104 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2012 and described by McGuinness (2012, 25-6) as following: ‘Very large, high relief, roughly circular ring-barrow (Diam. 49m NE¬‐SW x 46m NW-SE), situated in pasture on broad summit of hill (133m OD). Monument is mostly well preserved, although parts of outer bank have been removed, and except for SW and NE sides, its perimeter is covered by trees and bushes. Monument comprises a central, steep-sided platform with flattish to slightly convex upper surface, surrounded by a ditch, from 4-4.5m in width and mostly flat-bottomed except where mound and bank have partly slipped in on N side; and an outer bank, ranging from 6-7.5m in width where best preserved at N, NE and SW. On N side, bank rises 0.8m above external ground level and 2m above base of ditch. At E, W and SW, stretches of outer bank 1m, 6m and 5.5m in length respectively have been removed or severely damaged; the bank is also quite poorly preserved for an arc of 12m on SE side, and parts of its outer edge on N and S sides have been shorn off by passing farm vehicles. At the damaged SW part, the bank has been much reduced in size and, for 0.7m, entirely breached; and about 2.5m to W of this gap the bank bulges both inside and out, by as much as 4m on outer, SW side and reaches its greatest width (8.5m) and height above external ground level (1.1m). This bulge, much larger than the adjoining, well-preserved stretch of bank on same (SW) side of monument and apparently not original, may be composed of spoil from damaged bank to E. At numerous spots where cattle have eroded the bank, it can be seen to be composed of exceptionally stony earth. Maximum depth of ditch below and perpendicular to a line joining top of bank to upper surface of platform on NE and SW sides is 1.17m and 1.15m respectively. Central platform appears to rise little, if at all, above surrounding ground. Its basal diameter is 25m N-S x 27m E-W, the slightly greater length of the E-W axis being due to partial slippage of platform into ditch; it rises up to 1m above base of ditch. A second, almost identical ring-barrow (WM011-103----) lies less than 200m to SW. Running N-S c. 64.5m to WSW is a very large field fence, comprising a flat-topped bank 4m in width up to 1m high on E side and up to 1.5m high on W side. About 61.5m to ENE of second ring‐barrow (WM011-103----) this field fence kinks sharply, running (with ditch on NW side) in a SW direction and cutting through SE side of WM011-103----, where it has been partly converted into a trackway. This bank and associated ditch appear to be a part of the monument identified by Kane (1916-17, 550-57) as the ‘Black Pig’s Dyke’, based on an interpretation of place-names, folklore and medieval literary sources. But for trees, Frewin Hill (WM011-133----; WM011-132----) would be visible to S and Lough Owel to SE’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM011-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on NNE facing slope, surrounded by hilly grassland with Lough Owel visible 800m to E. Ring-barrow (WM011-104----) 350m to SSE. The stream/drain which marks the townland boundary with Mountmurray lies 28m to N. A raised oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The fosse is visible from NNW-N-E-SE. A large gap at SE appears to be the result of disturbance. The interior is uneven and contains small dumps of soil and stones and some shallow areas of disturbance. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 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.