# Ben, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of St. Feighins, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath; in Irish An Bhinn.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,851,621 m² (185.16 ha, 457.55 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,627 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Feighins, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/st-feighins.md
- Barony: Fore
- Electoral division: Fore West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Fore West electoral division: 404 people in 146 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51341
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230241
- Centre: latitude 53.68739, longitude -7.214382 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ben, from 268 m² to 184,818 m² (18.48 ha, 45.67 acres); 36 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 131705: 184,818 m² (18.48 ha, 45.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131705.md
- Parcel 109398: 116,323 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109398.md
- Parcel 109721: 112,954 m² (11.3 ha, 27.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109721.md
- Parcel 131698: 106,619 m² (10.66 ha, 26.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131698.md
- Parcel 134392: 101,216 m² (10.12 ha, 25.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134392.md
- Parcel 131697: 91,161 m² (9.12 ha, 22.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131697.md
- Parcel 132190: 87,985 m² (8.8 ha, 21.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132190.md
- Parcel 107771: 83,440 m² (8.34 ha, 20.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107771.md
- Parcel 107773: 82,327 m² (8.23 ha, 20.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107773.md
- Parcel 109390: 63,821 m² (6.38 ha, 15.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109390.md
- Parcel 134021: 62,391 m² (6.24 ha, 15.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134021.md
- Parcel 109401: 56,802 m² (5.68 ha, 14.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109401.md
- Parcel 134010: 54,676 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134010.md
- Parcel 131701: 49,851 m² (4.99 ha, 12.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131701.md
- Parcel 134257: 46,811 m² (4.68 ha, 11.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134257.md
- Parcel 131702: 42,074 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131702.md
- Parcel 109403: 33,895 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109403.md
- Parcel 131497: 26,092 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131497.md
- Parcel 2677515: 23,798 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2677515.md
- Parcel 107775: 23,056 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107775.md
- Parcel 107770: 22,433 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107770.md
- Parcel 107774: 18,217 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107774.md
- Parcel 109404: 16,442 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109404.md
- Parcel 131700: 15,094 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131700.md
- Parcel 107767: 14,675 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107767.md
- Parcel 109389: 14,249 m² (1.42 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109389.md
- Parcel 131699: 13,860 m² (1.39 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131699.md
- Parcel 109032: 13,843 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109032.md
- Parcel 109726: 12,835 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109726.md
- Parcel 134017: 12,721 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134017.md
- Parcel 134005: 11,389 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134005.md
- Parcel 109724: 9,887 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109724.md
- Parcel 132199: 8,624 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132199.md
- Parcel 2638010: 8,341 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638010.md
- Parcel 134258: 8,091 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134258.md
- Parcel 134009: 7,732 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134009.md
- Parcel 107781: 7,627 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107781.md
- Parcel 5491336: 7,469 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5491336.md
- Parcel 109377: 6,962 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109377.md
- Parcel 107766: 6,687 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107766.md
- Parcel 109725: 6,630 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109725.md
- Parcel 132188: 4,816 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132188.md
- Parcel 131704: 4,688 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131704.md
- Parcel 2751471: 4,207 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2751471.md
- Parcel 3384597: 4,193 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384597.md
- Parcel 107769: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107769.md
- Parcel 134395: 3,642 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134395.md
- Parcel 109516: 3,447 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109516.md
- Parcel 132196: 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132196.md
- Parcel 107772: 3,209 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107772.md
- Parcel 132195: 3,045 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132195.md
- Parcel 2751547: 2,966 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2751547.md
- Parcel 132192: 2,811 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132192.md
- Parcel 132200: 2,743 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132200.md
- Parcel 107783: 2,609 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/107783.md
- Parcel 134006: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134006.md
- Parcel 132198: 2,450 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132198.md
- Parcel 109402: 2,413 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109402.md
- Parcel 216621: 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216621.md
- Parcel 134013: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/134013.md
- Parcel 134011: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/134011.md
- Parcel 109030: 1,760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/109030.md
- Parcel 107780: 1,708 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/107780.md
- Parcel 131703: 1,680 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/131703.md
- Parcel 132191: 1,269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/132191.md
- Parcel 2677643: 1,040 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2677643.md
- Parcel 107782: 1,028 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/107782.md
- Parcel 132193: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/132193.md
- Parcel 5982600: 879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5982600.md
- Parcel 107778: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/107778.md
- Parcel 131693: 478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/131693.md
- Parcel 107779: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/107779.md
- Parcel 109028: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/109028.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Ben in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: White Lough, Ben Loughs and Lough Doo SAC, site code 001810, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001810
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: White Lough, Ben Loughs And Lough Doo, site code 001810
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Glore, site code 000686

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WM004-009: Cross - Wayside cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM004-009----. Described in 1928 as 'This is marked on the Ordnance map as St. Fechin's Cross, but nothing now remains except a small rectangular platform of stones and clay. It is on the south side of the road to Oldcastle near the county boundary, 1 and a half miles N.E. of Fore' (Crawford 1928, 60-1, no. 12). Described in 1980 as 'Only the base of this cross survives. It is a low platform (dims. 2.2m NE-SW x 1.4m NW-SE; H 0.55m) of earth and grass covered stones built on a low natural rise or ridge. It is on the S side of a modern roadway just inside the fence. The field fence shown just S and SE of the cross on the 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map has been removed' (SMR file). The cross is only 150m W of the boundary with County Meath. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 June 2010
- WM004-011: Cross - Wayside cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM004-011----. Broken wayside cross now survives in two fragments. Chamfered shaft of cross standing inside small stone walled structure on E side of road with partially damaged solid ringed-head of cross lying on the ground immediately W of shaft. Drawn by Du Noyer (George Victor Du Noyer, “on road side near Fore. Td. Of Lackill and Moortown, Co. W. Meath. Sheet 3/4. Calvary Cross,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed January 27, 2020, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23414.) in the 19th century and described in 1928 as 'A cross about 6ft. (1.8m) in height, 3ft. 2in. (0.95m) across the arms, and having a solid ring 2ft. (0.6m) in diameter. The cross is broken below the head. The base is 3ft. 6in. (1.07m) square. It stands in a recess in the eastern fence of the road rather more than half a mile N. of Fore, and a short distance from No. 10 (WM004-025----)' (Crawford 1928, 60, no. 11). Described in 1980 as 'The shaft and head of a large stone solid ringed cross. The cross is in two fragments. The shaft is set in the ground with no sign of a base and the solid ring head is set in the field bank behind it and obscured by the shaft and by the field bank. The shaft (H 0.89m; top Wth 0.23m; base Wth 0.28m; T 0.26m) is of rectangular cross-section with chamfered edges and is plain. It tapers from the bottom up. The head (Wth 0.59m; H 0.69m; T 0.2m) is damaged and one arm is missing. The exposed face is quite plain. The edges are not chamfered. The cross is set into a field bank on the E side of the roadway. It is in a small recess which is partly faced with dry stone walling. An old barrell is now lying on top of the head along with some other rubbish and bits of wood' (SMR file). A wayside cross (WM004-010----) is 660m to the NNW and a second wayside cross (WM004-025----) is 120m to the SSE. Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 April 2015
- WM004-026: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM004-026----. There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. In the Westmeath RMP (1996) maps, the potential monument is indicated at the Ben of Fore. No surface remains visible on any earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ben.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ben.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ben.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ben.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ben with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghalasty and Ankersland: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/aghalasty-and-ankersland.md
- Ballany (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/ballany.md
- Clonnageeragh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonnageeragh.md
- Fore: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fore.md
- Martinstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/martinstown-230971.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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