Teermore

Area

21,617 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 70 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

Teermore

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 1 recorded monument.

• WM031-086 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated at the E end of a small, low ridge running E-W, in undulating pasture. A small stream runs roughly N-S c. 18m to E. Annotated ‘Syonan Castle (in Ruins)’ on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map and depicted as a rectangular-shaped structure with a square building abutting to S and a range of buildings running NNE-SSW at SW corner. A large complex of buildings annotated ‘Corn Mill’ are located c. 20m to E. Syonan Castle described in 1979 a four storey high rectangular-shaped tlobby-entrance ower house (dims. 9m E-W; 7m N-S) in a good state of preservation, surviving to a height of approx. 15m. The walls are constructed of undressed limestone blocks laid in courses with an external base batter (approx. H 5m) and a rough narrow plinth at the base of the W and N walls. There are dressed quoin stones some of which have fallen out and lie on the ground a short distance from the base of the wall. The ground floor of the castle is currently entered through a doorway at the W end of the S wall which consists of a plain rectangular opening having no dressed stone. There is a blocked arched opening in the N end of the E wall which may have been the original doorway. There are a number of plain rectangular window openings in all four walls and some small arrow loops at the upper floor levels. Some dressed stones survive on the external faces of the slit opes. The opening of a garderobe chute is visible at the N end of the W wall. A thick cross wall runs N-S on the E side of the interior and is bonded into the N and S walls. This wall cuts off a narrow rectangular-shaped portion of the interior and is accessed through an arched opening with traces of wicker centering. It also has a small splayed window-like opening with a flat lintelled head toward the N end. There is a spiral staircase in the SE corner which gives access to upper floors. The stairs is blocked at ground floor level which is currently being used to store modern building materials. There is a stone vault over the first floor. There is a fireplace in the S wall at first floor level. Traces of plaster are visible on the internal walls in places. The outbuildings shown in this vicinity on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map have been removed and no traces remain. The remains of the old mill complex depicted on this map are incorporated into a farmyard on the opposite side of a small watercourse. Monument is visible today as a rectangular-shaped structure on Digital Globe aerial photography. Castle described by Salter (2004, 155) as following; 'Two ogival-headed lancets now reset in the tower [WM039-001----] at Tyrrelspass were recently taken from this four storey McGeoghegan tower measuring 9.5m by 7m which existed by 1566. The east wall contains the lobby of the original blocked entrance and a spiral stair in the SE corner. The second storey has a vault and a fireplace in the south wall. The third storey also has a fireplace on the south side, and a latrine in the NW corner'. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019

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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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.