Ben
Townland in the civil parish of St. Feighins, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath; in Irish An Bhinn
Parcel 107763
- Area
- 64,517 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ben
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 185.2 ha
- 458 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 7,627 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ben 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: White Lough, Ben Loughs and Lough Doo SAC 001810
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: White Lough, Ben Loughs And Lough Doo 001810
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Glore 000686
Recorded monuments
- WM004-009 Cross - Wayside cross
Description
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
Description
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
Description
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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ben.
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 Ben with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ben · An Bhinn
- Area
- 1,851,621 m² (185.16 ha, 457.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Feighins, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Fore West, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalasty And Ankersland, Ballany (Co. Meath), Clonnageeragh, Fore, Martinstown
- Placenames
- Ben 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.