Carn

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn, from 315,951 m² (31.6 ha, 78.07 acres) to 354,832 m² (35.48 ha, 87.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Carn 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carn 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 the townland of Carn.

Recorded monuments

• WM001-027 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hill, just above the 800 foot contour with panoramic views in all directions. Summit of Mullaghmeen Hill and Lough Sheelin visible 820m and 4.3km to the N respectively, Hill of Mael with hilltop enclosure and possible hillfort (WM003-008----/008001-) visible 2.6km to the SW. The cairn appears to be standing inside a larger multivallate hillfort/hilltop enclosure (WM001-027001-). Partial remains of this enclosing element is visible as a curving hedgerow located to N of the cairn. Evidence of scarping of the contour to the W and inside the native woodland forestry indicates the possible presence of a multivallate rampart which appears to follow the contours of the hill. Present remains consist of a low flattened mound of stones (diam. 12-15m; H c. 2m) which appears to be ancient, on top of which is a smaller heap of stones which appear to have been piled up in more recent times. This smaller ‘cairn’ (diam. 3m; H 1m) may be an OS trigonometrical point marking the spot height of 807 ft. as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. There is no indication of a kerb or revetment around the base of the cairn. There are some traces of disturbance & subsidence of the cairn. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016

• WM001-027001 Hillfort
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hill, just above the 800 foot contour with panoramic views in all directions. Summit of Mullaghmeen Hill and Lough Sheelin visible 820m and 4.3km to the N respectively, Hill of Mael with hilltop enclosure and possible hillfort (WM003-008----/008001-) visible 2.6km to the SW. A prehistoric burial cairn (WM001-027----) appears to be standing inside a larger multivallate hillfort/hilltop enclosure. Partial remains of this enclosing element is visible as a curving hedgerow located to N of the cairn. This enclosing bank is outlined on the 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a roughly circular-shaped hilltop enclosure (approx. diam. 58m N-S; 56m E-W). Possible evidence of a large outer enclosing element which is visible as scarping of the contour to the W and E inside the native woodland forestry. This scarping of the hillslope may be the remains of a possible rampart of a hillfort, with the outer enclosing element following the the contours of the hillslope. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 September 2018

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

No address of the register names Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Carn

Area

670,685 m² (67.07 ha, 165.73 acres)

Civil parish

Foyran, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Finnea, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Foyran, Mullaghmeen, Rathshane, Tonyowen Lower

Placenames

Carn 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.