Fardrum

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fardrum, from 366 m² to 357,694 m² (35.77 ha, 88.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• C6Strategic Gateway (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  development which will consist of the part demolition of existing rear extension and permission for a part single storey and part two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560082

• 5 Jun 2024Refused

  Part Demolition of Existing Rear Extensions to Provide the Construction of Proposed 32m2 Extension at Ground Floor level and 30m2 Extension at First Floor level to the rear of the existing dwelling, adjustment of existing doors to the Northeast Front and the Southwest Rear Elevations to new windows & internal refurbishment of existing dwelling together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460195

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 the townland of Fardrum.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fardrum.

Architectural heritage

• Fardrum House, house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c.1825. Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of rendered chimneystacks to the centre. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor openings. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to the basement openings having multi-pane top sections. Central elliptical-headed doorcase having four slender Ionic columns supporting fluted lintel, leaded glazed timber double doors, leaded sidelights and a leaded fanlight over. Doorway reached by a flight of cut stone steps to the entrance front (north). Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Athlone with main entrance gates to the east and outbuildings to the rear (15402905).

• Fardrum House, outbuilding, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two two-storey outbuildings to the rear of Fardrum House (15402904), built c.1825. comprising a four-bay two-storey rubble limestone outbuilding with a pitched natural slate and a five-bay two-storey whitewashed rubble limestone outbuilding with a hipped corrugated roof. Square-headed window and door openings and segmental-headed carriage arches to the ground floor openings with loop holes over to the first floor. Located to the rear of Fardrum House and to the southeast of Athlone.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Fardrum, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1669 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Fardrum, Athlone7 sales

Name

Fardrum · Fardroim

Area

634,969 m² (63.5 ha, 156.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Tubbrit, the unit of the census

Census 2022

719 people lived in 249 households in the Tubbrit electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonbonny, Cloondalin, Creggan Upper, Glen, Knockanea, Tubbrit

Placenames

Fardrum on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.