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Appendix 09 Architectural Conservation Areas Appendix9 Architectural Conservation Areas A9 A rchitectural Conservation Areas Ardbraccan Demesne Architectural Conservation Area Historical Development c.1820, of randomly coursed limestone with Ardbraccan House and demesne occupy an roughcast render and raised rendered quoins. historically important site which was the seat The particular interest of this building is in its of the Bishops of Meath since the fourteenth relationship with the single-storey cottages to century. The house is set in mature pasture the immediate north. land with formal and walled gardens. The construction of the house commenced Within the demesne are other structures – St c. 1734 to the designs of Richard Castle and Ultan’s Church and graveyard, Infant school, was completed in the 1770’s to the designs dated 1856, and holy well. of James Wyatt, Thomas Cooley and the Rev. Daniel Beaufort. Objectives: 1. To preserve the character of the demesne, Built Form its designed landscape and built features The domestic and agricultural outbuildings by limiting the extent of new development associated with Ardbraccan House display an permitted within the demesne and exceptionally high level of architectural design. requiring that any such development These include piggeries, granary, dovecotes, respect the setting and special qualities of bell tower, bullock sheds, carriage house, fowl the demesne. yards, laundry yard, pump yard, slaughter house, 2. To require that all works, whether of vaulted stables, and clock tower. The Demesne maintenance and repair, additions or structures include the gate lodges, entrance alterations to existing buildings or built gates and walls, ha-ha, eel pond, ice house, features within the demesne shall vineries, grotto, and water pump. protect the character of those buildings and features by the use of appropriate The detached two-storey four-bay house, materials and workmanship. possibly the farm manager’s house, was built 522 MEATH COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2013–2019 Architectural Conservation Areas A9 Athboy Architectural Conservation Area Historical Development Irish towns and is well defined by a hierarchy The town of Athboy was one of the four of building typologies, forming an eclectic centres (with Navan, Ratoath and Trim) set mix of uniform terraces, houses with varied up by the Anglo-Normans to function as plot widths and detached landmark buildings important towns in County Meath. In 1694, in residential, commercial and ecclesiastical the town’s ‘lands and commons’ and several use. One of the most significant landmarks other denominations of land were erected into in the town is the ecclesiastical site of St a manor and granted to Thomas Bligh, MP James’s Church of Ireland and its attendant for Athboy, who had earlier purchased almost grounds which retain a medieval church tower. 12 km² (3000 acres) in the area of Athboy. His The remnants of vernacular buildings on the son, John, was created “Earl of Darnley” in approach roads and streets into Athboy, and 1725 and the Blighs (Earls of Darnley) were the quality of public buildings, demonstrate the landlords of all but six of the 27 townlands in layering of architectural styles and add to the the parish of Athboy throughout the 18th and special character of the town. The retention of 19th centuries. rubble-stone boundary walls and outbuildings to the rear of the streetscape, often hidden from Layout the public realm, heightens the special interest The layout of the historic core of Athboy has and architectural character of the ACA. evolved over centuries, the principle influencing factors being the medieval town walls and Materials associated burgage plot arrangement. This A palette of materials particular to the area, has dictated the tight urban grain visible to this namely local limestone, some red and yellow day in the town. The river and the associated brick, purple slate, painted timber and ironwork former corn and flour, now timber, mills dictated provides unity of character. Although the the eastern boundary of the town walls. buildings are relatively unadorned, fortunately The approaches and exits to and from the town some retain original features such as fanlights, are key elements to the special character of timber sash windows, slate roofs, railings and Athboy and the peripheries are largely defined other boundary treatments which make up the by rubble stone walls, a classic feature of many attractive streetscapes. It is the combination eighteenth-century Irish villages, and one which of all of these elements that contribute to the penetrates the urban fabric of Athboy in its special character of the ACA of Athboy. public and private laneways. Summary of Special character Built form The special character of Athboy derives from The built fabric of Athboy’s streets is typical its extraordinarily rich settlement history and of the austere architectural style of smaller the resulting archaeological and architectural MEATH COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2013–2019 523 A9 Architectural Conservation Areas set-pieces, from its homogenous streetscape 2. To encourage the removal of visually permutated with buildings from many periods intrusive elements such as overhead and the use of traditional building materials in cables or inappropriate signage. its architecture. Furthermore its historical and 3. To require the preservation and re- social associations with the Darnley family, instatement of traditional details and adds to its special interest. materials on existing buildings and the streetscape where improvements or Objectives: maintenance works are being carried out. 1. To preserve the character of the town and its setting by requiring that the A detailed statement of character and planning height, scale, design and materials of guidance is available to download from the any proposed development within and website – adjoining the historic core of the town http://www.meath.ie/LocalAuthorities/ should complement its character and not Heritage/ArchitecturalHeritage/ diminish its distinctiveness of place. ArchitecturalConservationAreas/ 524 MEATH COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2013–2019 Architectural Conservation Areas A9 Dunboyne Architectural Conservation Area Historical Development and Layout houses on the Green and Navan Road reflect Dunboyne was established as one of the early twentieth-century re-ordering of a more secondary Anglo-Normal settlements in Meath vernacular landscape of low thatched houses and was a market centre for the barony. The seen in older photographs. Slightly earlier and morphology of the town is quite complex. more formal architecture was represented by Initially a manorial village with a substantial Dunboyne Cottage, the Parochial House, and medieval church, both located to the north the T-Plan church of c.1800, the initial focus of of the castle demesne, in the course of the the green which was demolished in 1993, while nineteenth century it developed attributes both its replacement had been built nearly forty of a chapel village and that of an estate village. years earlier. Summary of Special Character Objectives: The special character of Dunboyne is derived 1. To preserve the character of the village from an overlapping of features derived from its and its setting by requiring that the long historical development. Its manorial origin height, scale, and design of any proposed is reinforced by the presence of Dunboyne development within the village core and Castle to the south and the medieval church adjoining area should complement the tower, tucked away to the west and away character of the village and not diminish its from later developments. This western axis distinctiveness of place. of church and castle is one important aspect 2. To encourage the removal of visually of the character of Dunboyne. Another major intrusive elements such as overhead element is the rectangular green, east of the cables or inappropriate signage. medieval core, and carved out of the demesne 3. To require the preservation and re- in the early nineteenth-century. Within this area instatement of traditional details and the tree-lined triangular green space provides a materials on existing buildings and the haven of tranquillity from busy routes through streetscape where improvements or the town. The mature trees are important in maintenance works are being carried out. that they give a sense of scale and unity to the space. A detailed statement of character and planning guidance is available to download from the Another characteristic of Dunboyne is the website – predominance of early twentieth-century http://www.meath.ie/LocalAuthorities/ buildings – Brady’s (Dunboyne House), the Heritage/ArchitecturalHeritage/ former National School, terraced two storey ArchitecturalConservationAreas/ MEATH COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2013–2019 525 A9 Architectural Conservation Areas Dunsany Castle Demesne Architectural Conservation Area Historical Development The open view from the front of the castle Dunsany Castle is located outside the village included a ha-ha to protect the front lawn from of Dunsany, County Meath. Dunsany is one cattle. The demesne includes a walled garden, of the oldest surviving country houses in icehouse, and extensive parkland. Ireland and probably the oldest one in Ireland associated with a single family. The castle was The estate contains three mottes, the one to built around 1181 by Hugh de Lacy and owned the east is likely to have been the site of the by the Plunkett family. Through successive original Normal Stronghold. A manorial church, generations, Dunsany was modified and in ruins, is situated by the motte. remodelled. Some of the most significant changes took place in the 1840’s under the Objectives: architect, James Shiel. Because Dunsany has 1. To preserve the character of the demesne, survived for over 800 years and because it its designed landscape and built features has been reshaped down through the ages, it by limiting the extent of new development provides a microcosmic insight to the changing permitted within the demesne and tastes and fashions of country house owners requiring that any such development from the beginning of such houses right down respect the setting and special qualities of to the present day. the demesne.
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