Ardnacrany North

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnacrany North, from 121 m² to 1,031,591 m² (103.16 ha, 254.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ardnacrany North 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.

• 13 Oct 2022Refused

  To construct a two storey dwelling, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22498

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  Construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207135

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 Ardnacrany North.

Recorded monuments

• WM016-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight NW facing slope surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM016-016---) 150m to NE. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 34m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight external fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SSE, now blocked with stones. The interior slopes slightly from SSE-NNW. Part of the SE quadrant of the interior has been scraped away by an earth moving machine. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 September 2018

• WM016-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM016-014---) 150m to SW, and second ringfort (WM016-017---) 180m to ESE. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a slight external fosse. Both the bank and fosse has several disturbance gaps. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 September 2018

• WM016-017 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in grassland, surrounded by relatively low-lying land which was liable to flooding from the Tang River located 460m to E. Ringfort (WM016-016---) 180m to WNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly circular shaped enclosure outlined by 2 concentric lines, annotated on map as ‘fort’. Depicted on 18183 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped ringfort enclosed by a bank standing just W of the floodplain of the Tang River . Depicted on revised 1912 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly D-shaped earthwork with straight sides at SE and SW. No surface remains visible of levelled site. Visible as a faint cropmark (approx. diam. 60m N-S; 53m E-W) on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 September 2018

• WM016-018 Field system
  Description

  Situated in an area of knolls and ridges in partially reclaimed grassland. Ringfort (WM016-031----) 165m to S, Carmelite friary (WM016-019----) 460m to WNW. No surface remains visible of possible field system first noted in 1971 (ASI field report 26/10/1971). Earthworks described in 1971 as consisting of at least two adjacent enclosures within a complex of banks surrounding them. It is possible that some of these earthworks may have been related to drainage rather than representing the remains of a pre-1700 field system. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 September 2018

• WM016-019 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  Carmelite friary founded c. 1291 by Robert Dillon, Lord of Drumrany (Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 286). In 1540 the friary consisted of 'a small church with two small houses adjacent and a carucate of land which had come into the king's hands through the dissolution by the prior and convent of the late house of Carmelites' (ibid., 286-7). In this year ‘Moryhyrtagh O Kenny, travelling serjeant or bailiff in the Annale, similiarly sworn, states that there is in Athnecrane [Ardnacrany] in co. Westmeath a small (parva) church with two small (exiguis) houses adjacent, and a carucate of land, which have come into the king’s hands through the dissolution by the prior and convent of the late house of Carmelite friar; value 26s. 8d.’ (White 1943, 283). In 1546 the lands of the friary were granted to Robert Dillon (Hadcock 1970, 287). This site consists today of post-medieval graveyard (WM016-019001-) enclosed by a stone wall with entrance gate and stile on W side. The S wall of the graveyard incorporates the S wall of the Carmelite friary church with a seventeenth century graveslab (WM016-019002-) and a 17th century memorial stone (WM016-019004-) lying aginst the N face of this section of friary wall. The friary church wall forms part of the S boundary wall of the graveyard, a large part of this boundary wall formed the S wall of the medieval friary church building. There is no straight joint visible on the S graveyard boundary wall to indicate where the graveyard wall joined onto the medieval friary wall. A tall section of the friary wall (H 3.75m; wall T 1m) remains upstanding (L 6.95m) located off centre to E on S side of graveyard. At the E end of this section of friary wall are the remains of the W splay of a window embrasure. The remains of two limestone concave chamfered jambs with glazing groove and socket holes are visible. This window is located 3.25m W of the E corner of graveyard wall. The graveyard wall narrows in thickness on either side of this upstanding section of friary wall but appears to be part of the original friary wall as no straight joint is visible on external face and there is no change in masonry style which suggests the the friary wall was lowered and quarried way on the inner face when the graveyard boundary was being constructed in the post medieval period. A wall plaque on the N face of this wall with an inscription which reads as following: 'Carmelite Monastery 1350-1650 Returned 1735 Re Established in Moate 1770 Commemorated in 1985'. The grass covered footings of a wall can be seen running off the SE angle of the graveyard boundary wall. This earthen bank may be the remains of the S wall of the friary church which continued on beyond the post medieval graveyard boundary wall. The remains of a subcircular earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp which is best visible from S to W has been identified as a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (WM016-019003-) very probably of Early Christian date (Swan 1988,19). However this enclosing bank appears to be the remains of the levelled monastic precinct wall of the Carmelite friary. Inside this enclosure are low grass covered mounds and earthworks which appear to be related to the Carmelite friary. A low grass covered platform with stone protruding from the surface located on the W side of the friary could be the remains of an entrance gate or gatehouse of the monastery. A large mound to the NNE represents the remains of a post-medieval lime-kiln which is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. To the E of the friary in an area of wet unreclaimed land are the remains of an L-shaped earthen bank partially covered in scrub. The area inside the L-shaped earthwork is wet marshy land which may suggest that this earthwork could be the remains of a fish-pond or mill-pond associated with the monastery. The field enclosing the graveyard contains numerous well preserved earthworks which appear to be related to the Carmelite friary. In 1983 the site was recorded as consisting of, 'a rectangular graveyard (WM016-019001-) enclosed by a stone wall, situated near the centre of a possible circular enclosure (WM016-019003-). The enclosing element of the circular enclosure is a bank of earth & stone. This is best preserved in an arc from SE-S-SW, where it is c. 1m high. The S part of the arc forms a section of the modern E-W field fence. The arc of the circuit continues as a low bank from SW-W where it fades out. This bank is c. 0.5m high. On the E side the enclosing bank continues to curve SE-E-NE. It merges with another field fence at NE. On E side the bank is covered by bushes & trees . Outside it to E is a small, very marshy field. On N side the enclosing bank is part of an E-W field fence. The bank is not present on NW side, where the ground is rough with reeds and rushes and obviously wet in winter time. The interior of the enclosure is higher than the surrounding fields & is dry. The enclosure measures 125m N-S x 87m E-W. The rectangular graveyard measures 28m E-W x 21m N-S. From the SE corner a bank, with some wall foundations extends 27m E. Here there are traces of a further bank running N-S. In this area to N of the graveyard, within the possible circular enclosure there are a number of humps and hollows. Prominent among these are two parallel banks, suggesting a sunken trackway running NE-SW. To the W of these banks there is a circular mound of stone & earth. This mound is c. 1m high on S side, on NW side there are traces of wall foundations extending out from this mound' (SMR File 30/06/1983). Memorials inside graveyard have been recorded and photographed and are now listed on the Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny, accessed 9 October 2014. See attached pdf showing plan of graveyard with location of church wall outlined, taken from Historic Graves website at the above address. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 15 October 2014

• WM016-019001 Graveyard
  Description

  Carmelite friary founded (WM016-019----) c. 1291 by Robert Dillon, Lord of Drumrany (Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 286). This site consisted today of a post-medieval roughly rectangular-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 19.2m N-S; 26.7m E-W) with entrance gate and stile at W. Inside the graveyard are the remains of a seventeenth century graveslab (WM016-019002-) and 17th century wall monument located (WM016-019004-) in SE quadrant and the remains of the S wall of a church belonging to the Carmelite friary (WM016-019----) which forms the S boundary wall of the graveyard. The graveyard wall (H 1.5m; T 0.5m) is post-medieval in date except for the S wall which incorporates a section of the S wall of the medieval Carmelite friary church. Outside the graveyard are the remains of a subcircular earthen rampart which either represents the remains of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure (WM016-019003-) of possible Early Christian date (Swan 1988, 19) or represents the levelled boundary of the monastic precinct wall of the Carmelite friary. The earthworks described below in 1983 which run off the SE angle of the graveyard wall represent the levelled remains of the Carmelite friary. In 1983 the site was recorded as consisting of, 'a rectangular graveyard (WM016-019001-) enclosed by a stone wall, situated near the centre of a possible circular enclosure (WM016-019003-). The rectangular graveyard measures 28m E-W x 21m N-S. From the SE corner a bank, with some wall foundations extends 27m E. Here there are traces of a further bank running N-S. In this area to N of the graveyard, within the possible circular enclosure there are a number of humps and hollows. Prominent among these are two parallel banks, suggesting a sunken trackway running NE-SW. To the W of these banks there is a circular mound of stone & earth. This mound is c. 1m high on S side, on NW side there are traces of wall foundations extending out from this mound' (SMR File 30/06/1983). Memorials inside graveyard have been recorded and photographed and are now listed on the Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny, accessed 9 October 2014. See attached pdf showing plan of graveyard taken from Historic Graves website at the above address. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 15 October 2014

• WM016-019002 Graveslab
  Description

  Carmelite friary founded c. 1291 by Robert Dillon, Lord of Drumrany (Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 286). This site consists today of a relatively modern rectangular-shaped graveyard (WM016-019001-) with a seventeenth century wall monument (WM016-019004-) along with post-medieval memorials and the remains of a church (WM016-019----) belonging to the Carmelite friary. In 1979 the site was recorded as consisting of, 'a modern graveyard (WM016-019001-) with a 17th century tomb stone inside' (SMR File 03/07/1979). Late 17th century graveslab (dims. 1.4m x 1m; T 0.18m) lying up against N face of S wall of friary church close to SE corner of graveyard. Wall monument (WM016-019004-) immediately to W of graveslab. Graveslab recorded by Gerard Curran on the 8 April 2014 and listed on Irish Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny-0010/grave accessed 9 October 2014. Inscription on graveslab reads as following: IHS HERE LYETH THE BODY : OF THEOBALD : DILLON : ESQR SON : TO : ROBERT : DILLON : OF CANNORSTOWN : ESQR WHO DIED THE : 12 : OF : FEBR 1686 AGED 69 MARGRETT. DILL ON : ELDEST DAUGHTER TO SIR TE OBALD : DILLON VISCOUNT OF COSTE LLOW & GALLEN WAS THIS THEO BALDS MOTHER REQUIESCANT IN PACE Memorials inside graveyard have been recorded and photographed and are now listed on the Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny, accessed 9 October 2014. See attached pdf showing plan of graveyard, the above graveslab is shown as number 10, taken from Historic Graves website at the above address. Compiled by and revised: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 15 October 2014

• WM016-019003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Carmelite friary founded c. 1291 by Robert Dillon, Lord of Drumrany (Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 286). In 1540 the friary consisted of 'a small church with two small houses adjacent and a carucate of land which had come into the king's hands through the dissolution by the prior and convent of the late house of Carmelites' (ibid., 286-7). This site consists today of a rectangular-shaped post-medieval graveyard (WM016-019001-) containing the remains of a seventeenth century graveslab (WM016-019002-) and wall monument (WM016-019004-) along with memorials of post-medieval date and the remains of a church which formed part of the Carmelite friary (WM016-019----). Outside this graveyard are the remains of a subcircular earthen rampart which either represents the remains of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure (WM016-019003-) of possible Early Christian date (Swan 1988, 19) or the levelled remains of the boundary of the monastic prencinct wall of the Carmelite friary. Inside the E quadrant of enclosure are the remains of low earthworks which probably represent the remains of the levelled Carmelite friary. Earthworks inside the enclosure to the w of the graveyard may represent the remains of an entrance gate or gatehouse into the monastery. A large mound to the NNE represents the remains of a levelled lime-kiln depicted in the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. L-shaped earthwork enclosing poorly drained wet area in the E corner of the enclosure may represent the remains of a fish-pond or mill-pond associated with the Carmelite friary. The numerous undulating earthworks inside the enclosure may represent remains of some of the dwellings described inside the friary in the 16th century. In 1983 the site was recorded as consisting of, 'a rectangular graveyard (WM016-019001-) enclosed by a stone wall, situated near the centre of a possible circular enclosure (WM016-019003-). The enclosing element of the circular enclosure is a bank of earth & stone. this is best preserved in an arc from SE-S-SW, where it is c. 1m high. The S part of the arc forms a section of the modern E-W field fence. The arc of the circuit continues as a low bank from SW-W where it fades out. This bank is c. 0.5m high. On the E side the enclosing bank continues to curve SE-E-NE. It merges with another field fence at NE. On E side the bank is covered by bushes & trees . Outside it to E is a small, very marshy field. On N side the enclosing bank is part of an E-W field fence. The bank is not present on NW side, where the ground is rough with reeds and rushes and obviously wet in winter time. The interior of the enclosure is higher than the surrounding fields & is dry. The enclosure measures 125m N-S x 87m E-W. The rectangular graveyard measures 28m E-W x 21m N-S. From the SE corner a bank, with some wall foundations extends 27m E. Here there are traces of a further bank running N-S. In this area to N of the graveyard, within the possible circular enclosure there are a number of humps and hollows. Prominent among these are two parallel banks, suggesting a sunken trackway running NE-SW. To the W of these banks there is a circular mound of stone & earth. This mound is c. 1m high on S side, on NW side there are traces of wall foundations extending out from this mound' (SMR File 30/06/1983). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 15 October 2014

• WM016-019004 Wall monument
  Description

  Carmelite friary founded (WM016-019----) c. 1291 by Robert Dillon, Lord of Drumrany (Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 286). This site consists today of a relatively modern rectangular-shaped graveyard (WM016-019001-) with a seventeenth century graveslab (WM016-019002-) along with post-medieval memorial stones and the remains of a church (WM016-019----) belonging to the Carmelite Friary. Late 17th century square-shaped wall monument (dims. 0.95m x 0.88m; T 0.14m) lying up against N face of S wall of friary church close to SE corner of graveyard. Wall monument located immediately W of 17th century graveslab (WM016-019002-). Memorial stone recorded by Marree Curran on the 8 April 2014 and listed Irish Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny-0009/grave accessed 9 October 2014. Inscription on tablet reads as following: Theobald Dillons Monument was erected by his son Thomas Dillon. the said Thomas his Mother her was Julia Dillon Alias Dalton who died 1st of August in the year 1691 who was eldest daughter of John Dalton of Moyvaghly Esq This Theobald Dillon is a branch of the Earl of Roscommon. Memorials inside graveyard have been recorded and photographed and are now listed on the Historic Graves website at http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/ardnacrany-north/wm-acny, accessed 9 October 2014. See attached pdf showing plan of graveyard, the above graveslab is shown as number 9, taken from Historic Graves website at the above address. Compiled by and revised: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 15 October 2014

• WM016-031 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a prominent circular-shaped knoll. The field fence running N-S which forms the townland boundary with Lecade lies less than 10m to E. This site has been levelled and is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 65m E-W) on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 September 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardnacrany North.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ardnacrany North.

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 Ardnacrany North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ardnacrany North

Area

3,285,171 m² (328.52 ha, 811.78 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Noughaval electoral division: 417 people in 131 households; 95% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafin, Calliaghstown, Cartron (Co. Longford), Coolvin, Keel (Co. Longford), Lecade, Noughaval, Rath Upper

Placenames

Ardnacrany North 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.