Farnagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnagh, from 34 m² to 587,621 m² (58.76 ha, 145.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Farnagh 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.

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  installation of effluent waste water treatment system, provision of new shower room and renovation to existing derelict gate lodge cottage which is linked to two protected structures listings Farnagh House (NIAH ref 15403616) and out buildings (NIAH ref 15403617) and all associated works at existing property

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 247

• 17 Nov 2023N/a

  installation of effluent waste water treatment system and percolation system, provision of new shower room and renovation to existing gate lodge cottage and all ancillary works at existing property

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 23147

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 Farnagh.

Recorded monuments

• WM030-102 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in grassland 135m W of Farnagh Castle. Outline of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 31m) bisected by a later field boundary visible on Google Earth imagery taken 02/04/2013 and on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree-plantation and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Possibly the remains of a ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature. Alternatively the enclosure may represent the remains of a tree-ring of post-1700 date. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• WM030-103 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a ridge running E-W, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Enclosure (WM030-102----) lies c. 135m to WSW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped structure running NW-SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a long, narrow linear structure annotated ‘Castle (in Ruins)’. O’ Donovan (OSL 1837, 15) recorded that the ruins of this castle belonged to the O’Melaghlins. According to Cox (1972, 32, 40-1, 47) there is reference to a castle at Farnagh in 1539 and again when it was decreed to Lord Dillon in 1663. It was apparently sold to Robert Mulock in 1748 (ibid). Farnagh Castle described in 1976 as a rectangular-shaped building defined by the remains of the W wall (max. H c. 5m; L 10m; T 1.1m) running NW-SE and by a slight trace of mounding along the remains of the N wall. There is no trace of the E or S wall. There is a large breach in the lower central area of the W wall which is defined by a splayed window reveal (basal Wth 1m). The quoin stones are missing and there are no other features visible in the W wall. The masonry is very large roughly hewn conglomerate and limestone with no dressed stone visible. There is some loose collapse within and without. There are no earthworks visible in the vicinity. Castle is visible today as a linear structure on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Farnagh, country house, 1815–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached double-pile three-bay three-storey country house, built c.1817 and extended c.1850. Two-storey outbuilding attached to the east. Now in use as a private residence. Two-storey flat-roofed extension to the east gable end to the rear. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and with red brick chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west). Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings, cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Rubble limestone construction to the rear with brick dressings to the openings. Canted bay openings with timber casement windows to ground floor openings of entrance façade (south), flanking central doorcase. Modern three-bay projecting open porch, c.1990, with hipped artificial slate roof supported on four fluted columns extends across entrance front. Central round-headed doorway to entrance façade having architraved surround with spoke/radial fanlight over. Two moulded cut stone steps to front. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Moate with complex of outbuildings to the rear (15403617).

• Farnagh, farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (north/northeast) of Farnagh House (15403616), built c.1817 and extended c.1850. Single-storey stableblock to the north having pitched corrugated metal roof over. Pitched (mainly) natural slate roofs with projecting brick eaves course and having sections of cast-iron rainwater goods surviving. Brick chimneystacks to a number of ranges. Roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction, exposed to a number of sections. Square-headed window openings with timber louvers or one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways with timber sheeted doors and half-doors, a number with overlights above. Segmental-headed carriage arches (some with exposed brick voussoirs) to a number of the ranges. Rendered rubble stone gate piers on square-plan gives access to courtyard from the west and the east. Decorative wrought-iron gates to gateway to the east. Rear elevation of Farnagh House forms part of south range.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Farnagh.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

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

Name

Farnagh · Fearnach

Area

1,090,205 m² (109.02 ha, 269.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Bellanalack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellanalack electoral division: 578 people in 201 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafin, Boggagh (Conran), Fearmore, Knockdomny, Magheramore, Seeoge

Placenames

Farnagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.