# Bryanmore Upper, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumraney, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 466,639 m² (46.66 ha, 115.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,317 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumraney, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/drumraney.md - Barony: Kilkenny West - Electoral division: Ardnagragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51027 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230287 - Centre: latitude 53.462117, longitude -7.767467 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bryanmore Upper, from 504 m² to 159,880 m² (15.99 ha, 39.51 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 120912: 159,880 m² (15.99 ha, 39.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120912.md - Parcel 120909: 106,520 m² (10.65 ha, 26.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120909.md - Parcel 120913: 41,890 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120913.md - Parcel 97917: 37,247 m² (3.72 ha, 9.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97917.md - Parcel 5297481: 28,219 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297481.md - Parcel 120910: 15,709 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120910.md - Parcel 130293: 12,554 m² (1.26 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/130293.md - Parcel 4981985: 10,583 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981985.md - Parcel 97422: 7,275 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97422.md - Parcel 120127: 7,131 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120127.md - Parcel 122936: 5,896 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122936.md - Parcel 4981459: 5,782 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981459.md - Parcel 4981435: 4,317 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981435.md - Parcel 5297502: 3,645 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297502.md - Parcel 3388881: 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388881.md - Parcel 97911: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97911.md - Parcel 120142: 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120142.md - Parcel 97885: 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97885.md - Parcel 97889: 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97889.md - Parcel 97915: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97915.md - Parcel 4981448: 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981448.md - Parcel 97893: 1,436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/97893.md - Parcel 4981434: 1,098 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981434.md - Parcel 5297527: 598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297527.md - Parcel 120908: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/120908.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bryanmore Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 24 Mar 2023, Westmeath County Council 2336: Conditional. Permission. construction of a slatted shed for cattle, a stables, a roofed manure pit and ancillary works (extension of existing farm road, concrete yards, effluent tank etc) in new farmyard area,using existing farm road and entrance onto public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2336/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bryanmore Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM023-057: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-057----. Situated on a slight WNW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture with excellent views to WSW, W, and N. Lady Well (WM023-089----) 60m to SSE. Monument described in 1971 a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 34m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank that is much disturbed and almost reduced to a scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable and there is no definite trace of an external fosse. The interior has a gentle ESE-facing slope and several humps and hollows which are due to disturbance. There is a post-1700 quarry hole adjacent to NE. Modern house and garden plot built into N quadrant of enclosure which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. See attached profile of monument which was surveyed and drawn by the ASI Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 25 July 2019 - WM023-059: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-059----. Situated on a slight rise, in undulating pasture, with good views to NW, N and SE. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 41.3m NE-SW; 35.3m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank with external fosse best preserved at S and almost completely infilled elsewhere. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. The monument has been quarried in places on the exterior from ENE-SE. A modern field boundary encloses the monument from S-W-N-NE. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 July 2019 - WM023-070: Castle - ringwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-070----. Situated on the W side of a high rise, in pasture, with good views to W, NW and S. The Down Survey map of Drumraney depicts a tower house type castle (WM023-070001-) in Bryanmore [Brinemore] townland on or close to site of ‘The Breen’ (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the castle is depicted standing on lands belonging in 1640 to John Dillon who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). Depicted on the 1837 OS six-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure outlined by two concentric lines with two buildings in the centre of the enclosure. One of these building is annotated ‘Sterns Folly’ with a circular shaped earthwork or mound immediately depicted to the E of the building. The annotation ‘The Breen’ appears to refer to the circular-shaped enclosure. This earthwork may have been a circular shaped bawn or courtyard of the castle of Bryanmore (WM023-070001-), annotated as 'The Breen' on six inch OS maps. Monument described in 1971 and 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The outer bank incorporates large stones which may be those referred to by O’Donovan (OSNB 1837) when he recorded that ‘there was originally a circle of large stones surrounding the fort'. The entrance to the interior is at SSE. A stone-faced rectangular depression in the NE quadrant appears to be a cellar or foundation of a building, which may be the remains of the tower house or Bryanmore Castle. A bank running N-S traverses the interior and there is a mound in the E quadrant with the ruins of a stone structure on top which may be the remains of Stern’s folly. Field banks and walls abut the exterior of the monument at N, NE, S and W. The remains of a small subrectangular house site (WM023-070002-) are visible outside the monument at SE. The remains of a road of uncertain antiquity are preserved in the field boundary 80m S of the enclosure. Well preserved bivallate enclosure with remains of stone buildings standing inside large field defined by well preserved field banks visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. These field banks enclosing the castle site and earthworks may be the remains of medieval field boundaries. Possibly the remains of a medieval castle and bawn that was reused as a landscape feature or folly in the post-1700 period by the Stearne family. According to Cox (1972, 22-25), in 600 AD, there was an ancient hostel site on Bryanmore Hill in Drumraney parish located midway between Ballymore and Athlone. The hostel is known as ‘Bruighean da Choga’ or ‘Da Choga’s Hostel’. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey identified this earthwork as the site of ‘Bruighean da Choga’ and described it as following; 'It is a fort of earth 204 paces in circumference and containing within it the ruins of castle [WM023-070001-] the erection of which tradition ascribes to the Dillons, who were lords of Cuircneach from the period of the English invasion. This castle is now a formless mass of ruins, but the fathers of the present old natives remembered to have seen a considerable portion of it standing, which was used as a fine ball-alley and visited by the best ball players then in Ireland, England and America!' (OSL Drumraney parish, Vol. 1, 37-8). It is possible that this enclosure could have been a cashel that was pre-Norman in date and was then refortified in the medieval period by the construction of a stone castle inside the enclosure which was later reused as a landscape feature by the Stern family. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 July 2019 - WM023-070001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-070001-. Situated on the W side of a high rise, in pasture, with good views to W, NW and S. The Down Survey map of Drumraney depicts a tower house type castle in Bryanmore [Brinemore] townland on or close to site of ‘The Breen’ (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the castle is depicted standing on lands belonging in 1640 to John Dillon who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). Depicted on the 1837 OS six-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure ((WM023-070001-) outlined by two concentric lines with two buildings in the centre of the enclosure. One of these building is annotated ‘Sterns Folly’ with a circular shaped earthwork or mound immediately depicted to the E of the building. The annotation ‘The Breen’ appears to refer to the circular-shaped enclosure. This earthwork may have been a circular shaped bawn or courtyard of the castle of Bryanmore, annotated as 'The Breen' on six inch OS maps. Monument described in 1971 and 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank with entrance gap at SSE. A stone-faced rectangular depression in the NE quadrant appears to be a cellar or foundation of a building, which may be the remains of the tower house or Bryanmore Castle. A bank running N-S traverses the interior and there is a mound in the E quadrant with the ruins of a stone structure on top which may be the remains of Stern’s folly. Field banks and walls abut the exterior of the monument at N, NE, S and W. The remains of a small subrectangular house site (WM023-070002-) are visible outside the monument at SE. The remains of a road of uncertain antiquity are preserved in the field boundary 80m S of the enclosure. Well preserved bivallate enclosure with remains of stone buildings standing inside large field defined by well preserved field banks visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. These field banks enclosing the castle site and earthworks may be the remains of medieval field boundaries. Possibly the remains of a medieval castle and bawn that was reused as a landscape feature or folly in the post-1700 period by the Stearne family. According to Cox (1972, 22-25), in 600 AD, there was an ancient hostel site on Bryanmore Hill in Drumraney parish located midway between Ballymore and Athlone. The hostel is known as ‘Bruighean da Choga’ or ‘Da Choga’s Hostel’. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey identified this earthwork as the site of ‘Bruighean da Choga’ and described it as following; 'It is a fort of earth 204 paces in circumference and containing within it the ruins of castle [WM023-070001-] the erection of which tradition ascribes to the Dillons, who were lords of Cuircneach from the period of the English invasion. This castle is now a formless mass of ruins, but the fathers of the present old natives remembered to have seen a considerable portion of it standing, which was used as a fine ball-alley and visited by the best ball players then in Ireland, England and America!' (OSL Drumraney parish, Vol. 1, 37-8). It is possible that this enclosure could be pre-Norman in date and was then refortified in the medieval period by the construction of a stone castle inside the enclosure which was later reused as a landscape feature by the Stern family. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 July 2019 - WM023-070002: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-070002-. Situated on the W side of a high rise, in pasture, with good views to W, NW and S. The Down Survey Parish map of Drumraney depicts a castle (WM023-070001-) in Bryanmore townland on or close to site of ‘The Breen’. Outside the earthwork on the SE is the remains of a small subrectangular house site. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 30 July 2019 - WM023-089: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-089----. Possible holy well annotated 'Lady Well' in gothic script on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload; 25 July 2019 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 Bryanmore Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Bryanmore Upper. - 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/bryanmore-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bryanmore Upper 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) - Bryanmore Lower: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-lower.md - Carrickaneha: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/carrickaneha.md - Cloghbreen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cloghbreen.md - Fairfield: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fairfield.md - Killininneen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killininneen.md - Kiltober: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kiltober-230853.md - Oldtown or Puddingstreet: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/oldtown-or-puddingstreet.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/bryanmore-upper