Carn
Townland in the civil parish of Foyran, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 86355
- Area
- 482,112 m² (48.21 ha, 119.13 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
- Carn
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 2 recorded monuments.
- WM001-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the W side of Mullaghmeen Hill with extensive views to W and NW but now obscured due to location in modern forestry plantation. Ringfort (WM001-025----) located 360m to NNW. Heavily overgrown ringfort which is impossible to examine due to forestry plantation. A roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 39m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank with traces of an external fosse visible at SE only and an entrance gap at SE. The interior has been planted with coniferous trees and a modern forestry road running NNE-SSW cuts through the SE quadrant of the ringfort. The interior of the site slopes from E-W. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016
- WM001-057 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Description
Balnacart corn mill and mill race may have been built on the site of the watermill depicted in the townland of Rathshane on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore barony (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the watermill is shown standing at the meeting point of the townland boundaries of Foyran and Rathshane in the area where Balnacart Mill is depicted on the OS 6-inch maps. The present corn mill was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as following, 'Detached two-storey corn mill on L-shaped plan, built c.1810 and altered c.1900. Restored c.2000 and now in use as a private house. Joint lines along structure indicate that section to south is a later extension. Pitched artificial slate roof with raised rendered verges. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone. Square-headed openings having replacement timber casement windows and timber sheeted doors. Restored cast-iron waterwheel to west side, set into original cast-iron overshot watercourse. Remains of single-storey rubble limestone outbuilding to the southwest having pitched corrugated-iron roof over and square-headed openings. Ruins of a small corn kiln remain to the north and silted-up mill pond to the southeast. Original millrace ran from pond to the southeast, over wheel and through culvert under the road and away to the northwest. Located to the southeast of Finnea close to border with Co. Meath to the east' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 July 2015
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).
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map.
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
- 67.1 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 335,391 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
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 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carn.
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 Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- 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.