Aghnabohy
Townland in the civil parish of Piercetown, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 116497
- Area
- 747,968 m² (74.8 ha, 184.83 acres)
- Buildings
- 10 buildings touch it, 2,854 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Aghnabohy
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- Mearscourt House, country house, 1750–1770 · National interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey over basement Palladian country house, built c.1760, possibly incorporating the remains of earlier buildings, including a Medieval tower house. Now in use as a guesthouse. Hipped natural slate roof partially hidden behind raised parapet with ashlar limestone coping over. Pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to centre. Roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (diminishing in size towards top) with cut stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sash windows to first and second floor openings and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor openings. Moulded ashlar limestone architraves having entablatures over to ground floor openings, raised dressed limestone surrounds with keystones to first floor openings and plain dressed limestone surrounds to second floor openings. Central ashlar limestone pedimented Doric doorcase with glazed timber double-doors and sidelights to south façade (entrance) with Venetian window over to first floor and Diocletian above the second floor. Flight of cut limestone steps, flanked by low plinth walls (with ashlar limestone coping) to east and west, give access to main entrance. Set back from road in extensive parkland demesne grounds with complex of outbuildings/stable block (154017012) to west and a walled garden to the rear (15401713).
- Mearscourt House, stables, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Stable block on U-shaped plan, built c.1840, comprising two-storey ranges to east and west with a three-bay two-storey advanced pedimented three-bay two-storey section to centre of north range with cupola over. Located to west side of Meares Court. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with cut stone chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar limestone trim. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and plain ashlar surrounds having paired multipane timber casement windows. Square-headed doorcases with dressed limestone lintels over supported on ashlar brackets having mixture of timber panelled and timber sheeted doors. Three segmental-headed carriage arches to pedimented section to north, comprising central entrance flanked by coach houses to east and west. Cut limestone gate piers on square plan and wrought-iron double-gates to south giving access to courtyard.with to the west of Meares Court.
- Mearscourt House, walled garden, 1760–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Walled Gardens, built between c.1760 and c.1850, to the rear (north) of Meares Court (15401711). Constructed of coursed rubble stone walling to the exterior with brick-lining to a number of the interior faces.
- Mearscourt House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1680–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gates to Meares Court, erected c.1760, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan (with basemoulds) with ashlar limestone capstones (in the form of full entablatures) over having ball finials. Cast-iron double gates. Pedestrian entrance to the west of main gates, comprising square-headed ashlar limestone doorcase with moulded architraves having cornice over supported on carved limestone brackets, c.1700. Gateway and doorcase set in section of rubble limestone estate wall to the south of Meares Court and adjacent to attendant gate lodge (west).
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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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 119.3 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 80,567 m² (8.06 ha, 19.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnabohy, from 1,544 m² to 425,289 m² (42.53 ha, 105.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghnabohy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Aug 2022Conditional
replacement of the septic tank and percolation area with a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter within new site boundary
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22423
22 Aug 2022Conditional
construction of a new storey & half dwelling, entrance onto the public road, a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, landscaping & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22424
5 Apr 2018Conditional
demolish existing derelict dwelling and construct a two storey dwelling, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186114
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghnabohy.
Recorded monuments
- WM017-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture, with intervening hollows of wet and rushy ground. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a bank and external fosse. Annotated as ‘Graghanisagh Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area defined all round by a scarp and by a fosse from ENE-NNW; field boundaries radiate from the monument at ENE, SW and N. Surrounding field has been planted with forestry in recent years (Digital Globe; Google Earth 24/03/2017). Monument described in 1965 as a low platform or raised area defined by a scarp which is enclosed by an external fosse. Site described in 1971, as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure defined by a low, intermittent bank which has been reduced to a steep scarp and having a wide, U-shaped fosse visible from E-SE and from SSW-N. A wide gap in the inner bank at S has evidence of disturbance, yet may represent an original entrance. The intermittent remains of an earthen outer bank are visible from E-SE and from SSW-N and has been modified in places. There is a counterscarp on the outer bank at SW and a large gap (Wth at top 4.2m; Wth at base 3m) where a modern field bank intersects. The interior is slightly uneven and is partially covered with thorn trees and briars. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghnabohy.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghnabohy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Aghnabohy
- Area
- 1,193,292 m² (119.33 ha, 294.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Piercetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Piercetown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurra, Curraghboy, Piercetown, Rathcogue, Rowlandstown, Sheean
- Placenames
- Aghnabohy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.