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.

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

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 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

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. 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.