Multyfarnham

Area

3,215 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G1 Open Space (WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham) The objective

Townland

Multyfarnham

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.

• WM006-061 Church
  Description

  The medieval nave and chancel parish church dedicated to St Andrew in the village of Multyfarnham is depicted as a ruinous building on the 1659 Down Survey map of the parish of Multyfarnham (NLI, MS 723-4). In the papal Taxation of 1302-06 the church of Multyfarnham located in the deanery of Mullingar is valued at 100s. yearly (Cal. Doc. Ire., 259). In 1411 the rectory of the parish church of St. Andrew of Multyfarnham was described as being of lay patronage which is ‘vacant at present by the death of Robert Oconyngean’ and which was then conferred to Bernard Macmurkerchaid [Mac Murtagh], a clerk of the diocese of Ardagh’ (Costello 1909, 84). In 1449 the death was recorded of ‘Geoffry de Lemara [Delamere], rector of the parish church of Multyfarnham’ (ibid., 98). In 1492 there is a reference to ‘Thebaldus de la Mayr’ [Theobald Delamere] who is described as the rector of the parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle of Multyfarnham (ibid., 170). Depicted as ‘St Andrew’s Chapel’ and shown as a long rectangular building on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Only the W gable of the church is depicted on the 1912 ed. OS 25-inch map. The long rectangular church ruins stands on a low rise of ground with unlocated medieval castle site (WM006-060----) to N, possible motte (WM007-072----) 110m to NE with River Gaine 160m to NE. Franciscan friary (WM006-058----) 500m to N. Present remains consist of a short upstanding section of the N end of the W gable of a medieval nave and chancel church standing in the centre of a sub-triangular shaped graveyard (WM006-061001-). The remaining walls of the church ruins are indicated by recently exposed low wall footings. Inside the church ruins are some post-medieval headstones. Scattered throughout the graveyard are several architectural fragments belonging to the medieval church that have been inserted into the graveyard.These include the punch dressed arch stone of the original church doorway, two window sills and one chamfered punch dressed window jambstone. It is not clear if these fragments have been inserted into the graveyard to act as gravemarkers in the post medieval period or whether they have been inserted into the graveyard in recent times as part of graveyard clean up scheme. St. Andrew’s Church ruins were described in 1976 as following: ‘Apart from some standing wall remains in the NW corner and some further rubble collapse at the E end of the N wall. Very little survives. The basic rectangular plan (quiet large) of a medieval parish church (ext. dims. L approx. 20m E-W; 6.3m N-S; Wall T 1.05m) can be made out, the footings are now grass covered and mounded up. There is a door ope 6m W of the E end of the N wall showing reveal stone and another less obvious gap opposite in its S wall. The standing wall remains at the NW corner have been cemented or dashed over and look very unsightly. No features visible. The masonry underneath appears to be very small poor quality. There is no clear trace of an internal division. Headstones and tombstones within and without chapel – modern. The graveyard wall is high at W side of site but probably modern. Here at a distance of 9m out from this wall there is a low bank curving round to the S. It appears to be a double banked feature in places with a width of 4m between and so could be the remains of an earlier roadway’ (SMR File 15/07/1976). Today there are no surface remains of this possible medieval roadway as a modern cemetery extension is now located on the W side of the medieval graveyard. In 1980 the church ruins were described as following: ‘only a small portion of the west gable smothered in ivy and shored up with concrete approx by grass covered wall footings. The building was aligned approx. E-W and measures approx. 9.5m N-S by approx. 26m E-W. The east end is rather disturbed. There are indications that the church was divided into a nave and chancel. The chancel being approx. 8m long by 8.5m wide N-S. Precise measurements are impossible because of long grass and collapsed stones. The ruin is within a roughly triangular graveyard bounded by a stone wall. There are several 19th and 20th century tombstones in the graveyard (SMR file 08/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM006-061001 Graveyard
  Description

  Sub-triangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 65m N-S x 43m E-W) on the S side of the village of Multyfarnham with medieval church ruins (WM006-061----). The graveyard stands on a low rise of ground with unlocated medieval castle site (WM006-060----) to N, possible motte (WM007-072----) 110m to NE with River Gaine 160m to NE. Franciscan friary (WM006-058----) 500m to N. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the 18th century onwards and is enclosed by a post-medieval stone wall with entrance gate at E and modern cemetery extension to W. Scattered throughout the graveyard are several architectural fragments belonging to the medieval church that have been inserted into the graveyard. It is not clear if these fragments have been inserted into the graveyard to act as gravemarkers in the post medieval period or whether they have been inserted into the graveyard in recent times as part of the graveyard clean up scheme. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM007-072 Castle - motte
  Description

  Small flat-topped motte located immediately E of St. Nicholas’ R.C. Church and 70m W of the River Gaine in the village of Multyfarnham. Medieval church (WM006-061----) and graveyard (WM006-061001-) located 110m to SW. Described in 1985 as following; ‘The motte (top diam. 9.8m WSW-ENE; 12m NNW-SSE) is located on the E side of a low ridge with the River Gaine just to the E of it. It is a well preserved motte on the edge of Multyfarnham village. There is no indication of a bailey and if one existed it probably occupied the area now to the W of the motte as the natural slope is from the W to the E down to the nearby River Gaine. This area is now occupied by St. Nicholas R.C. Church’ (SMR File, 12/03/1985). A second report from 1985 recorded that the monument consisted of ‘a large roughly circular mound of earth and some stones. The N and W sides of the motte have been defaced by the boundary walls of a churchyard (on W) and by yards and gardens (on N). The E and S sides of the mound are regular and steep. A fosse-like depression at the base of the mound from SE-S-SSW continues on along the S side of the churchyard S wall’ (SMR File). The flat-topped mound may be the site of the unlocated levelled castle (WM006-060----) that is depicted on the 1659 Down Survey parish map of Multyfarnham (NLI, MS 723-4). A preservation order was placed on this monument in 1985. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM007-123 Bridge
  Description

  In 1682 Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh described the route of the River Gaine and the mills and bridges along its route. He wrote the following about the bridge at Multyfarnham; 'it passeth to Multifornan, where it falleth under another large bridge; thence to a mill (WM006-076----), whence immediately it watereth the ground of the late Friery of Multifernan (WM006-058----)' (Vallancey 1786, 6). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 December 2016

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).

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