# Dunegan, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyloughloe, barony of Clonlonan, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 793,896 m² (79.39 ha, 196.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,455 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyloughloe, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/ballyloughloe.md - Barony: Clonlonan - Electoral division: Bellanalack, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 578 people lived in 201 households in the Bellanalack electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/50808 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230593 - Centre: latitude 53.422086, longitude -7.750181 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunegan, from 119 m² to 79,395 m² (7.94 ha, 19.62 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 97117: 79,395 m² (7.94 ha, 19.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97117.md - Parcel 124086: 73,979 m² (7.4 ha, 18.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124086.md - Parcel 123848: 58,772 m² (5.88 ha, 14.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123848.md - Parcel 99200: 57,653 m² (5.77 ha, 14.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99200.md - Parcel 124413: 47,102 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124413.md - Parcel 123952: 44,228 m² (4.42 ha, 10.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123952.md - Parcel 98524: 43,008 m² (4.3 ha, 10.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98524.md - Parcel 97820: 35,652 m² (3.57 ha, 8.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97820.md - Parcel 98336: 29,143 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98336.md - Parcel 99482: 24,085 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99482.md - Parcel 124083: 22,850 m² (2.28 ha, 5.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124083.md - Parcel 98316: 22,498 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98316.md - Parcel 98330: 20,977 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98330.md - Parcel 124082: 13,663 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124082.md - Parcel 124091: 10,754 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124091.md - Parcel 124915: 9,539 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124915.md - Parcel 124094: 7,514 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/124094.md - Parcel 123835: 7,455 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123835.md - Parcel 4984981: 5,492 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984981.md - Parcel 123831: 5,224 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123831.md - Parcel 2547904: 4,619 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2547904.md - Parcel 98304: 4,465 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98304.md - Parcel 123837: 4,202 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123837.md - Parcel 123839: 3,301 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123839.md - Parcel 99750: 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99750.md - Parcel 2638948: 3,027 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638948.md - Parcel 98519: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98519.md - Parcel 123828: 2,466 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123828.md - Parcel 123724: 2,439 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123724.md - Parcel 5931462: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5931462.md - Parcel 2959283: 1,331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2959283.md - Parcel 123761: 886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/123761.md - Parcel 4984954: 801 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984954.md - Parcel 4984945: 508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984945.md - Parcel 4984947: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984947.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dunegan 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 30 Jun 2022, Westmeath County Council 22343: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to consist of the renovation and extension of an existing two-storey detached farmhouse, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22343/0 - 28 Apr 2020, Westmeath County Council 207069: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/207069/0 - 1 Jul 2019, Westmeath County Council 197136: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197136/0 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 Dunegan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM030-055: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM030-055----. Situated on a natural rise, in pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a oval-shaped earthwork. A ringfort (WM030-056----) lies c. 130m to SE. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 51m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The bank is visible from NW-N-E-SE and is partially disturbed from SE-S-W-NW where it is adjoined by a field boundary. There are the remains of a shallow fosse and a slight outer bank from NW-N-E-SE. The interior rises gently from the perimeter toward the centre. Some stones project from the surface and a large boulder lies near the bank at E. There are three breaks in the bank at E, but it is not possible to distinguish an original entrance. Monument is visible today a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019 - WM030-075: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM030-075----. Situated at the NE end of a long, steep-sided, narrow-topped ridge (106m/349ft OD) running roughly E-W, with extensive views to N, E and W. Depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Ballyloughloe parish map as a tower house type structure with bawn wall running off one side of the castle, annotated 'Ruins A Castle with a large Bawne' (NLI, NS 723-4). Described in the terrier of the map as, ‘there stands in Dunegan the ruines of a large castle and a large Bawne’ (ibid). On this map the castle is shown standing on the lands of Hubbard Gawley who is listed as an 'Irish Papist'. Annotated ‘Dunegan Old Castle’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a long rectangular-shaped ruin (long-axis E-W). Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a L-shaped ruins forming the remains of the W gable and the return of the N and S walls, with a long linear structure running roughly N-S from the SW corner. According to Cox (1970, 6-7) the name Dunegan is an Anglicised version of Dun Thadgain or Thadgain’s Fort deriving from the person who is reputed to have lived on the mound during the 9th century. Cox (1972-3, 147-8, 156) recorded that the castle came into Hubert Magawly’s possession after the death of his father Awly before 20 May 1607 and that of his half-brother Christopher Magawly in 1609. Dunegan Castle remained a Magawly seat until Cromwellian times when it became home to a branch of the Homan family of Shurock until March 1826 when it was burned down (ibid). Dunegan Castle described as the upstanding remains of a rectangular-shaped building defined by the remains of the W gable and a short return of the N wall which stands to a height of about 6-7m. The remainder of the N wall and the line of the S wall can be traced as low, sod-covered banks of earth and stone, but the E foundations appear to have been dug away in antiquity. The thick walls are built of undressed and roughly coursed, mortar bonded rubble limestone. A rough plinth can be seen at the external base of both walls. The outer face of the SW and NW corners has been robbed, exposing a large breach into a garderobe chute, at the S end of the W gable. The remains of an arched recess on the interior of the N wall can be seen at ground level. There are two lintelled fireplaces at first and second floor levels of the W wall and the chimneys are partly surviving. There is a damaged recess in the SW corner with a plain rectangular window opening in the corner. There is no trace of barrel vaulting, cut or decorated stone. The sod-covered foundations of the S and W sides of a rectangular structure adjoin the exterior of the S wall. There are further foundations of rectangular structures to the SE, at the base of the ridge. These are partly defaced by old cultivation ridges running NE-SW. Monument is visible today as a ruinous building enclosed by woodland on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019 - WM030-075001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM030-075001-. Dunegan Castle (WM030-075----) ruins stands on the NE end of a long, steep-sided, narrow-topped ridge (106m/349ft OD) running roughly E-W, with extensive views to N, E and W. Depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Ballyloughloe parish map and described in the terrier of the map as, ‘there stands in Dunegan the ruines of a large castle and a large Bawne’ (NLI, MS 723-4). Annotated ‘Dunegan Old Castle’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a long rectangular-shaped ruin (long-axis E-W). No surface remains visible of large bawn belonging to Dunegan Castle that is described in the terrier of the Down Survey parish map. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 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 Dunegan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dunegan, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunegan. - 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/dunegan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/dunegan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/dunegan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dunegan 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) - Cappaghauneen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cappaghauneen.md - Dunlom West: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/dunlom-west.md - Killachonna (Castlemaine): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killachonna-castlemaine.md - Knockdomny: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/knockdomny.md - Labaun: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/labaun.md - Shurock: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/shurock-231202.md - Tullybane: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullybane.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/dunegan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/dunegan