Brackagh Castle
Townland in the civil parish of Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 102070
- Area
- 60,719 m² (6.07 ha, 15 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
- Brackagh Castle
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM037-003 Castle - unclassified
Description
Situated in low-lying wet pasture. A castle is noted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map in an area referred to as the ‘Bog of Brackagh’. A small, square-shaped building is depicted in this area on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map however this is unnamed so it is unclear if this is the remains of Brackagh Castle. A trackway running E-W leads to the structure from the W. No castle site is depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Site of levelled castle is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. No castle is depicted in this area of bog on the 1655 Down Survey map of Moycashel Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1837 Samuel Handy was listed as the owner of Bracca Castle (Lewis 1837). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 December 2019
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
- 11.1 ha
- 27 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 21,821 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackagh Castle, from 6,620 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres) to 60,719 m² (6.07 ha, 15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brackagh Castle 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
No planning application touches the townland of Brackagh Castle 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brackagh Castle.
Recorded monuments
- WM037-003 Castle - unclassified
Description
Situated in low-lying wet pasture. A castle is noted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map in an area referred to as the ‘Bog of Brackagh’. A small, square-shaped building is depicted in this area on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map however this is unnamed so it is unclear if this is the remains of Brackagh Castle. A trackway running E-W leads to the structure from the W. No castle site is depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Site of levelled castle is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. No castle is depicted in this area of bog on the 1655 Down Survey map of Moycashel Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1837 Samuel Handy was listed as the owner of Bracca Castle (Lewis 1837). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 December 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brackagh Castle.
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 Brackagh Castle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Brackagh Castle
- Area
- 110,984 m² (11.1 ha, 27.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- Electoral division
- Lauree, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlaban, Cloonymurrikin
- Placenames
- Brackagh Castle 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.