Abbeyland

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeyland, from 18 m² to 72,171 m² (7.22 ha, 17.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• S5Community, Educational & Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) construction of a 6 bay cubicle shed with underground storage tank, (2) remove existing above ground soiled water storage tank and replace with a new above ground soiled water tank in same location, and (3) all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360158

• 28 May 2021Conditional

  The development which will consist of a single storey extension to the north of the existing nursing home and comprising of 12 single en-suite bedrooms, ancillary staff and resident facilities and connection to existing on-site sewage water and storm water services. Permission is also sought for all ancillary site development works. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structures Ref: 006-013 and 006-014 as identified within Volume 8 "Record of Protected Structures" of the Westmeath County Development Plan 2021-2027

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21301

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  The development consists of the proposed partial change of use of a horticultural based sessional training centre for people with intellectual disabilities and publicly accessible therapy garden and café, the latter of which involves change of use of the permitted portacabin structure to a café serving refreshments for consumption on site. Retention permission is also sought for landscaping and engineering works including paving and lighting, the erection of 3 no Gazebos and 1 no. Geodome, fencing around the boundary and associated works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21295

• 22 May 2020N/a

  A 10 year permission to upgrade, reorientation and expansion of previously permitted electricity substation granted as part of Coole Wind Farm (Pl. Ref 17/6292; ABP Ref PL25M/300686) in the townland of Camagh (Fore by). The laying of underground cabling predominantly along the public road corridor to facilitate the connection to the national grid of the permitted wind farm along a route measuring approximately 26.4 kilometres, through the townlands listed below, between the proposed substation in the townland of Camagh (Fore by) and the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown (Moyashel and Magheradernon by). Works to complete the cable connection to the existing Mullingar 110kV electricity substation including the construction of a dedicated bay within the existing substation compound in the townland of Irishtown(Moyashel and Magheradernon by). All associated site works and ancillary development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206121

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  Change of use of a former agricultural yard to a horticultural based sessional training centre for people with intellectual disabilities. Retention permission is also sought for the demolition of two sheds, construction of two polytunnels, erection of one portacabin, two chicken coops, connection to the group water and wastewater schemes, provision of a soakpit, new fencing around the boundary and associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176116

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 Abbeyland.

Recorded monuments

• WM006-058 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Franciscan friary which was founded by William Delamar in the thirteenth century and was reformed into an observant order in 1460 (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 241, 256). The patronage of the friary changed to the Nugents after the extinction of the Delamere line. In 1540 the friars had abandoned the friary which was described as consisting of 'a hall with buttery and kitchen, a church with cloister and a chapter-house beneath a dormitory, another hall with a chamber and other offices, all in sufficient repair, also a malt-house, brew-house and bakery, cemetery with a small wood, a garden, orchard and close, the site of 6 or more acres being surrounded with ditches of running water; outside were 43 acres of land, and a small island' (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 256). The friary was twice burnt and it was raided by the English at least six times between 1590 and 1617 (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 256). Today the franciscan abbey is still in use and incorporates portions of the medieval structure (SMR file). The medieval S transept forms the nave of the present Franciscan church.. The archway under tower is now a chapel shrine to St. Anthony (SMR file).

• WM006-059 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  Situated in an area of pasture-land. Religious House-Franciscan Friars (WM006-058----) 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘convent’, adjoining the townland boundary between Abbeyland and Multyfarnham. The convent buildings depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map have been levelled, and no trace of any buildings survive. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

Architectural heritage

• The Abbey, post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1915, with hooded letter opening and raised 'GR' and crown insignia over. Mounted within external face of rubble stone wall surrounding graveyard at Multyfarnham Abbey. Makers name appears at base in raised lettering ' F. Allen & Co. London '.

• The Abbey, abbey, 1300–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached Franciscan abbey, originally built c.1306, extended c.1450 with addition of crossing tower and transept (south), abandoned c.1650. Largely rebuilt from ruins c.1830 and renovated, c.1880, and extended and reordered c.1975, with reconstruction of chancel and addition of a modern sanctuary. Now comprising single-bay nave, two-bay chancel, two-bay transept to south and central three-stage crossing tower on square plan with battlemented parapet with Irish-style crenellations. Single-bay gable-fronted entrance porches to west end of nave and to west side of south transept. Pitched natural slate roofs with raised verges with stone coping, clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Stone cross finials to nave and transept gables, decorative terracotta ridge cresting to transept. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble with cut limestone surrounds to openings and dressed limestone detailing. Pointed-arched openings with cut-stone tracery and hoodmouldings over. Single triple-light medieval window, c.1450, with reticulated tracery to transept gable. Window to chancel gable taken from Presbyterian church at Tully, Co. Longford and built into new chancel, c.1975. Pointed-arch opening to entrances porches with replacement glazed timber doors and overlights with stained glass over. Paired ogee-headed openings to belfry (second stage of crossing tower) with timber louvered vents. Church interior now stripped of any early render/plaster with exposed rubble limestone walls. A number of (moved) inscribed early seventeenth century memorial slabs remain to interior. Set back from road in mature landscaped grounds with monastery to north, a walled graveyard to south and gardens to west with stations of the cross.

• The Abbey, friary, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Extensive complex of two-storey buildings, originally built c.1880 as a Franciscan Friary on site of the original medieval cloisters of Multyfarnham Abbey. Later in use as a secondary school until c.1956 when converted to use as an agricultural college. Now partially in use as a Franciscan Friary. Comprises two main blocks. Block to south consists of a nine-bay two-storey building with two gable-fronted breakfronts, c.1880, with a sixteen-bay two-storey block to north, c.1900. Hipped and pitched natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with ruled-and-lined finish to northern block. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows, pointed arch-headed openings to projecting breakfronts to south block. Main entrance to north breakfront on south building with a square-headed opening, timber double-doors with leaded overlight above, surrounded by rendered surround comprising pilasters on square plan with console brackets supporting overhanging canopy porch. Statue of Virgin Mary above to gable in pointed arch-headed niche. Set back from road in mature landscaped grounds adjoining friary church to south and two-storey ranges of buildings with timber sliding sash windows to east arranged around central courtyard.

• The Abbey, bridge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over River Gaine, built c.1833. Constructed of rubble limestone with cut limestone voussoirs to arch and crenellated coping to parapet. Widened on east side with shuttered concrete parapet walls. Inscribed limestone plaque to western parapet reads 'This bridge was erected at the expense of Mr. Patrick Keena of Cullen as a mark of regard for the Franciscan convent of Multyfarnham in pious memory of his son Master John Keena who died 28 July 1831'. Situated in the grounds of Multyfarnham Abbey to southwest of St. Francis Church.

• The Abbey, building misc, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  A collection of fourteen life-size statues depicting the Stations of the Cross, erected c.1927. Constructed of plaster with freestanding stone structures/buildings with stylised Classical detailing forming part of the setting at a number of the Stations. Located to the west of Multyfarnham Abbey in mature, landscaped grounds.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Abbeyland.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Abbeyland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Abbeyland

Area

308,958 m² (30.9 ha, 76.35 acres)

Civil parish

Multyfarnham, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Multyfarnham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Multyfarnham electoral division: 656 people in 230 households; 76% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclonagh, Multyfarnham, Rathganny

Placenames

Abbeyland 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.