Ardnagragh (Gray)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnagragh (Gray), from 111 m² to 170,710 m² (17.07 ha, 42.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ardnagragh (Gray) 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.

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  Planning Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, a new entrance, a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187066

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 Ardnagragh (Gray).

Recorded monuments

• WM023-033 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a hill, in flat pasture, with good views from S-W. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a small rectilinear earthwork outlined by a scarp, c. 100m to W of Ardnagragh Castle (WM023-034----). Monument described in 1983 as a linear scarp (L 10-15m) running N-S located to W of castle (WM023-034----). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• WM023-034 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a broad hill, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Annotated ‘Ardnagragh Old Castle’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a U-shaped building. In 1611 an inquisition into the possessions of Robert Dillon of Cannorstown Castle (WM015-019----) listed Ardnagragh Castle as part of his estate (Cal. inq. post mortem, 5 Jac. I). Castle described in the Ordnance Survey field name books as 'This old castle stands NE by SW and is 60 links [12m] long and 30 links [6m] broad. it is now in ruins'. Castle depicted on the Down Survey Drumraney parish map as a tower house type structure with later two storey high house built onto one side of the castle (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the castle is shown standing on a hillock on lands belonging to Richard Dillon (ibid.). The cartographic representation closely resembles the OS 6-inch map designation which suggests that this was a multi-period building. Castle described in 1983 as the ruins of a rectangular-shaped building defined by the remains of the E wall, a short return of the S wall and some mounds of collapsed material. The foundations of the E wall (approx. L 20m N-S) survive along with a short return of the S wall (approx. L 6m; H 2-3m). Immediately to S there is a large irregular-shaped mound of stone. This feature extends to W of the SE corner and is clearly defined along the S edge, probably representing collapse from the former S wall. The structure is crudely built of rubble stone and there are no surviving features of architectural interest. A well-defined L-shaped trench (dims. c. 3.5m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.5m) is located to W of the upstanding masonry. It does not appear to be directly connected with the castle and may be a relatively modern feature. The area of the castle is traversed by some modern field fences running N-S and E-W, which are not indicated on Ordnance Survey maps. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• WM023-091 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The following folklore abut this holy well was collected between 1937-38 from Ardnagragh School; 'There is a well in Mr Mann's field in Ardnagrath caled Tobar na hAise or Tobar na hAisil. It is about a half mile from the Ardnagrath road. It is near a stone wall with big rocks around it. Some people say St. Rachel blessed it, others say it was St Patrick blessed it. People do not perform rounds there, but people go there for water to cure vomiting. Several people were cured of this ailment. People have great faith in it. The sick person does not get it himself, some body else must go for it for him. It must be taken from the well between sunset and sunrise, otherwise it will prove useless' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 293; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009127/4989216/5121631). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having a single-bay entrance porch to the centre of the main façade (northeast) and a single-bay single-story extension to the southwest gable. No longer in use as a house. Pitched corrugated metal roof with raised verges to gable ends, a single central chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to later extension. Roughcast rendered walls having square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron security bars to ground floor windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber sheeted door. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Glassan with forecourt to west, enclosed by single-storey outbuildings to the north and south. Roughcast rendered boundary to west having a pair of rendered gate piers supporting a wrought-iron gate.

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 Ardnagragh (Gray).

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 Ardnagragh (Gray) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ardnagragh (Gray) · Ard na gCreach (Gray)

Area

1,064,512 m² (106.45 ha, 263.05 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Ardnagragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardnagragh electoral division: 494 people in 152 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagragh (Digby), Cormaclew, Killeennanam, Killininneen

Placenames

Ardnagragh (Gray) 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.