Tulla Historic Landscape Character May2010 Final
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An introduction to the Historic Landscape Character of the area around Tulla, Clare. And the issues of change within the landscape
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Tulla Historic Landscape Character May2010 Final
- 1. Tulla Historic Landscape Character
- 2. Tulla origins + view to Knockadoon
- 4. Designed landscapes Kiltannon House Designed Park Once a designed “desmesne farm” now reverted to fields
- 5. Appropriated features Tomeens at Kiltannon Megalithic tomb Lismeehan
- 6. Repeated elements Newgrove estate Deer park Ornamental lake Walled garden
- 7. Transformation in late 19 th and 20 th centuries Strip fields on former Deer Park on OS 1840s map Vegetable garden reverted to pasture Lake drained
- 8. Maryfort park from terrace
- 9. Westropp O’Callaghans at play
- 10. Lismeehan 3 rd “Big House” 2 nd Tower House 1 st Ringfort Lios Mhiacháin Enclosure Portal tomb Park trees as standards Wooded shelter belt Walled garden
- 11. Maryfort 1990s Bungalow New quarry Extractive Industries HLC-type Olympus factory
- 12. Maryfort 2009 Larger quarry
- 13. Characterising changing landscapes Derry placenames and waterlogged pasture
Editor's Notes
- Tulla is a historic market town and centre of a large Parish which had administrative functions. It’s historic core was a medieval monastery and there are a number of religious monuments grouped on the hill today. It was a defended drumlin hilltop and was subject to at least one and maybe many historic sieges. Most – if not all – of the neighbouring drumlins have duns or lios. Arrowed is that Knockadoon (hillock of the fort). The view skims across several historic Landscape types: Devotional religious complex, new suburbs on the old forge estate, mixed fields, and rough ground
- The view was of hills >10km distant. Note how the irregular fields follow the shape of the Drumlins and how one view skims across many landscape types. The intervisible duns and raths, marked in yellow
- Kiltannon House was burned out in the 1920s. It is still classed as a designed park as the design elements are strong. However, elsewhere design elements have been retained in a landscape where other attributes predominate. Avenues of trees, etc, remain. Old orchards have disappeared. Clare was once noted for its cider apples
- Designed Landscapes of the 17 th , 18 th and 19th centuries typically incorporate natural features, such as the Tomeen cave system at Kiltannon and also ruins of castles or even ancient monuments such as Maryfort. To add ambience to a location and a sense of place and identity
- Typical Estate in from the late 18 th century contains standard elements
- Newgrove Estate reverting from a designed landscape. Note Strip Fields are a new feature in the landscape here, reminds me of Patrick Kavannagh’s autobiography The Green Fool , the Rocksavage estate. The estate figures prominently in as its ruin benefits the local peasants; its land was sold at conacre (sharecropping) and its trees were cut down and sold as firewood. Kavanagh notes regular lootings, “There was no love for beauty. We were barbarians just emerged from the Penal days. The hunger had killed our poetry and we were mere animals grabbing at the leavings of the dogs of war”
- Maryfort House Lismeehan, Parkland from the Terrace: Also incorporated “antique” ruins and monuments. Owned by…
- … Westropp – O’callaghan’s. Antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp. John O’Callaghan was implicated in the notorious Bodyke evictions http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/bodyke_evictions/bodyke_index.htm
- Same elements of a formal garden and then landscaped wilderness – from ringfort through tower house to big house (continuity and change)
- Now partially preserved by the agency of a factory but with a quarry creeping nearer – in HLC terms this is ALSO A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE TYPE.
- More recently still the quarry has grown and the walled garden replanted with fruit – Photo on Google maps. On this estate the development of a high-tec’ pharmaceutical industry has led to a greater preservation of features of the designed landscape than elsewhere. The question is always how do we manage change. Try as we might, we can’t arrest it.
- Land to the north of Tulla includes many Derry placenames, formerly wooded. Modern transport allowed the development of a dairy industry in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. However, now pasture in small farms is getting waterlogged – it is no-longer economic to maintain. Potential additions to the rural economy include plantations, coverts for shooting, and orhards, Clare was formerly a cider-producing county with it’s own cider apple. Scarriff-based Irish Seedsavers have made a successful nursery business by combining preserving older varieties with training courses http:// www.irishseedsavers.ie /
- A final thought, look again at the convention articles and consider how you might apply them in a changing world