Carrigagh
Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 107970
- Area
- 339,022 m² (33.9 ha, 83.77 acres)
- Buildings
- 9 buildings touch it, 2,114 m² on the ground
- 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
- Carrigagh
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of slatted shed and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560620
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.
- WM005-010 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 36-7) as following: ‘Approximately circular, dome-shaped mound (Diam. 20.4m N-S x 19.4m E-W) with flattened top (Diam. 4.7m N-S x 6m E-W) sloping down gently from SE-NW; given that the land on which it is sited slopes down from NW-SE,barrow is lower on NW side (H. 1.63m) than on SE side (H. 2.23m). Running around edge of mound partway up its slope, though not sticking to the same contour, is what appears to be a step or ledge, but it is unclear to what extent this is artificial or due to slippage, animal traffic or natural erosion; on SE side, upper surface of mound rises 1.65m over this step, which in turn rises 0.50m over ground level. Just 0.7m below top of mound, but only on SE side, is a step or ledge 2.60m in width which appears striking in profile; this appears more likely to be original than the lower, circumferential step. Poaching and other erosion has damaged the mound at various parts of its circumference, especially SE-S-W; and SE edge of mound appears to have been shorn off by passing farm vehicles. Although one ASI account, that of 29/5/78, does note that ‘there is no clear indication of a fosse though there is a slight depression on the NNE side,’ in its current state no perimeter ditch is visible around this tumulus, and its identification as a bowl-barrow by ASI should be rejected in favour of the mound-barrow category. Monument is situated in good pastureland, which has been under the plough in the recent past, perhaps removing evidence for peripheral features. It is prominently positioned on a glacial ridge sloping down from NW-SE, its highest point being 250m to NW of barrow. There are excellent views from E-S-W, and Frewin Hill (WM011-132----/133----/160----) and Knockdrin (WM012-183----), both very prominent hills with barrows, are visible to E. Traces of an old field system have been noted by ASI fieldworkers to NE, N and W of barrow [SMR file]. A small natural lake lying downhill c. 200m to N, which has been recently dredged, appears to be a kettle-hole. Only 750m to NE is an old burial ground (WM005-008001-) containing site of medieval parish church (WM005-008----) of Rathaspic (‘Rath of the Bishops’), which Leo Swan (1988, 14) identified as an early medieval ecclesiastical site on the grounds that the curving road pattern indicated the line of a diagnostic curvilinear rampart or vallum (WM005-008002-) surrounding the site; a short distance E of the burial ground is St Dermot’s Well (WM005-007----), still visited by pilgrims. There is a very large ringfort (WM005-014----), some 500m to SE’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 5 February 2016
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).
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
- 95.2 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 24,924 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigagh, from 162 m² to 250,473 m² (25.05 ha, 61.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrigagh 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 Carrigagh 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 Carrigagh.
Recorded monuments
- WM005-014 Concentric enclosure
Description
Situated on a low natural rise surrounded by relatively low-lying gently undulating poorly drained land with good views to the ESE, S and SSW. A circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a wide low earthen bank levelled at N and S, and a flat slightly concave berm (Wth 9m) defined by a low earthen bank best preserved from S to W, with an external fosse visible from NE-E. The interior is fairly even and featureless. Total overall diameter of the monument measures approx. 70m. From SSE-S an old laneway depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map skirts the perimeter of the monument. A field boundary running NE-SW transects the perimeter of the site at S. The presence of the encircling slightly concave berm is unusual and suggests that this monument may be classified as a concentric enclosure. Alternatively the surface of the berm is slightly concave and could be the remains of an inner fosse which would suggest a henge-type or large barrow-type monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 December 2016
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrigagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigagh
- Area
- 951,935 m² (95.19 ha, 235.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Glenlough, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygarvey, Ballygarveybeg, Cross, Curristeen, Newport (Co. Longford), Rathclittagh
- Placenames
- Carrigagh 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.