Belan Street, Baltinglass

Area

403 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it, 96 m² on the ground

Zoning

G1 Open Space (Baltinglass Town Plan) The objective
R2 Existing Residential (Baltinglass Town Plan) The objective
M2 Town Centre (Baltinglass Town Plan) The objective

Townland

Baltinglass West

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 6 recorded monuments.

• WI027-024 Historic town
  Description

  Situated on the river Slaney in the valley between Tinoranhill and Tuckmill Hill. The Cistercian abbey of Baltinglass (WI027-024001-) was founded here in 1148 (Stalley 1987, 242). A tower house (WI027-024002-), known as the Abbot’s castle, was demolished in 1882 to provide materials for the building of a rectory. The foundations of the tower house are visible under an existing garden wall (Fitzgerald 1906-8, 397). A water-mill (WI027-024008-) and mill-race were listed in an Inquisition of 1541 as being part of the possessions of Baltinglass Abbey. Fitzgerald (ibid., 400) refers to the ‘burning of the whole towne’ in an Inquisition held in Newcastle (County Wicklow) in 1604. Also in a county Wicklow Exchequer Inquisition (Nos. 2 and 4 of Charles I) it mentions that in 1617 the abbey lands were created into a manor, by the name of the manor of Baltinglass, with a Court-Baron and Court-Leet, and the institution of a Thursday market and two fairs (ibid., 402). On 10 January 1663 the King, Charles II, directed that Baltinglass ‘which is an ancient village’ ‘shall be made into a corporate town and be henceforth governed by a Sovereign’. He also directed that there would be a Court of Record in addition to the existing courts. He had been informed that the Lord Chancellor (Sir Maurice Eustace) was preparing to build a parish church in the town, and houses for a Minister and School-master, and a bridge over the Slaney and a market and schoolhouse (ibid., 405). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 December 2012

• WI027-024001 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 203. Situated at the N end of Baltinglass Town, 100m E of the River Slaney. Only the church survives of the Cistercian abbey founded in 1148. The church has a long nave, with an imposing nave arcade, a choir and a presbytery (with a three-light window) (overall L c. 56m), with two later transepts. The W door has a two-centred granite arch doorway, probably fifteenth century in date, and a three-light window above. The E end of the church has several Romanesque carved capitals, and there is a sedilia in the presbytery. A crossing-tower was built in the later Middle Ages, and subsequently rebuilt in 1815 in the Neo-Gothic style. The 'abbots castle' (WI027-024002-) was demolished in 1882 to provide materials for the building of the rectory. (Stalley 1987, 242) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI027-024002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated at the N end of Baltinglass town close to Baltinglass Abbey. The 'abbot's castle' was demolished in 1882 to provide materials for the building of the rectory, which is adjacent to Baltinglass abbey (WI027-024001-). Foundations of the E end of the S wall are visible under the existing garden wall. A possible SE angle tower is indicated by the shape of the wall. It is of roughly coursed limestone, and the foundations are over 1m thick. Fitzgerald includes a print of a painting showing what appears to be a three- or four-storey tower house with windows with hood-mouldings, and a possibly later house built onto it. (Fitzgerald 1906-8, 397; Stalley 1987, 242) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI027-024003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the N end of Baltinglass Town, 100m E of the River Slaney. The graveyard (c. 85m E-W; c. 42m N-S) of the Cistercian Abbey at Baltinglass (WI027-024001-). Fitzgerald (1906-8, 411) describes the graveyard as a ‘burial ground [that] contains no slabs or tombs of any antiquity. The earliest dated slab lies near the sedilia at the east end of the abbey: its date is 1699.' (See WI027-024006-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 December 2012

• WI027-024006 Graveslab
  Description

  A recumbent rectangular slab (L 1.83m; Wth 0.89m) on the floor of the chancel of Baltinglass Abbey (WI027-024001-), lying E-W with the head to W. The surface is very badly spalled. A framed coat-of-arms in a recess at the top appears to comprise a shield surmounted by a helmet and mantling. Noted in November 1896 (Fitzgerald 1906-8, 411) as having an inscription in small incised capitals which read: ‘Here lyeth the body of Robert Stratford Esqr who departed this life on the 26th of October 1699.’ Only a few letters are still visible. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 20 November 2012

• WI027-024007 Font
  Description

  A circular granite font (overall Wth 0.81m; H 0.39m) centrally placed 0.5m inside the E wall of Baltinglass Abbey (WI027-024001-). Described in 1906-8 (Fitzgerald, 411) as in rough, unfinished-looking condition. The circular basin (0.16m from outer edge) narrows slightly towards the base and has no water outlet (D 0.23m; Wth at base 0.45m; Wth at top 0.54m). The top of the font has a raised internal rim (Wth 0.09m) rising 0.045m above the outer edge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 November 2012

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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