Farranistick

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranistick. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Farranistick 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.

• 22 May 2020N/a

  A 10 year permission to upgrade, reorientation and expansion of previously permitted electricity substation granted as part of Coole Wind Farm (Pl. Ref 17/6292; ABP Ref PL25M/300686) in the townland of Camagh (Fore by). The laying of underground cabling predominantly along the public road corridor to facilitate the connection to the national grid of the permitted wind farm along a route measuring approximately 26.4 kilometres, through the townlands listed below, between the proposed substation in the townland of Camagh (Fore by) and the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown (Moyashel and Magheradernon by). Works to complete the cable connection to the existing Mullingar 110kV electricity substation including the construction of a dedicated bay within the existing substation compound in the townland of Irishtown(Moyashel and Magheradernon by). All associated site works and ancillary development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206121

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Owel SAC 000688
• Special Protection Area: Lough Owel SPA 004047
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Owel 000688
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM019-005 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in low-lying, boggy land which has been drained in modern times. A fulacht fiadh (WM019-008----) lies c. 180m to SE. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Listed by Victor Buckley as Fulacht Fiadh No. 2 on his sketch map (SMR File). Monument described in 1980 as an oval-shaped mound (dims. 19.8m N-S, 15.0m E-W) raised (H 0.7m) above the surrounding ground level. A large amount of stone was detected just below the surface at every point probed. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached 25 inch map showing location of fulacht fiadh as marked on map by Victor Buckley Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• WM019-008 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in low-lying, boggy land which has been drained in modern times. A fulacht fiadh (WM019-005001-) lies c. 180m to NW. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Listed by Victor Buckley as Fulacht Fiadh No. I on his sketch map (SMR File). Monument described in 1980 as an oval-shaped mound (dims. 18.6m E-W; 13.9m N-S) raised (H 0.7m) above the surrounding ground level. There are traces of a counterscarp (Wth 2m) on the SW side. A large amount of stone was detected just below the surface at every point probed. An uprooted tree in the NW corner was noted to have exposed abundant stone. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached 25 inch map showing location of fulacht fiadh as marked on map by Victor Buckley Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Levington Park, country house, 1740–1760 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey country house with two-storey returns to rear at either end (north and south), built (or rebuilt) c.1748. Possibly including earlier fabric. Altered, c.1810, with the addition of a three-bay pedimented section, a limestone Doric porch and a Wyatt window to the entrance front (east). Pitched natural slate roof having cut stone chimneystacks and cut stone eagle finals to either end of front façade. Lime roughcast rendered walls over rubble limestone construction with projecting ashlar eaves course. Evidence of brick construction to ground floor to south gable. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills to front elevation (east). Lunette window with 'spider's web' tracery to eaves pediment (over porch). Variety of early multi-pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, including a number with exposed sash boxes and high percentage of surviving early crown glass panes. Central square-headed doorcase (behind projecting porch) with early timber panelled door having square-headed fanlight over with intersecting tracery. Cut stone steps to front. Interesting interior with decorative plasterwork, marble fireplaces and a early cantilevered staircase. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds adjacent to the shore of Lough Owel. Extensive collection of outbuildings (15401911) to the rear (west), arranged around a central courtyard with the house forming the east range, and main entrance gates and estate wall to the east (15401912).a

• Levington Park, stables, 1750–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings, arranged around a courtyard to the rear (west) of Levington Park (15401910), built between c.1750 and 1850. Possibly containing earlier fabric. Pitched natural slate roofs with rubble stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of rubble limestone with sections of lime roughcast render over. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills having variety of timber sliding sash windows, many having exposed sash boxes and retaining early glass. Square-headed doorcases with timber sheeted and glazed timber doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch to centre of west range. Fountain with cut stone detailing to centre of courtyard. Courtyard cobbled in limestone sets, now overgrown with grass. Walled garden to the south, enclosed by rubble limestone walls with brick lining to interior. Complex adjoins Levington Park to the rear (west).

• Levington Park, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Main entrance gates serving Levington Park, erected c.1810, comprising two pairs of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with ashlar limestone capstones over, forming central vehicular entrance flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances (set into dressed limestone) walling to the east and west. Wrought-iron double gates to central vehicular entrance with single wrought-iron gates to flanking pedestrian entrances. Sections of rubble limestone estate wall to the east and west. Gateway flanked by a pair of attendant gate lodges (15401913). Located to the east of Levington Park (15401910).

• Levington Park, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of matching two-storey gate lodges, built c.1810, flanking main entrance gates (15401912) to the Levington Park Demesne. Pitched natural slate roofs having moulded brick chimneystacks (one to each structure), cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards to gable ends. Rubble limestone construction retaining sections of lime render over. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to gate lodge to west at first floor level having elliptical-headed glazing bars. Loop hole openings to attic levels. Both structures back onto road and front into the demesne (north). Located to the northwest of Mullingar.

• Level crossing, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway level crossing, erected c.1855, serving Dublin to Sligo Railway line. Still in active use. Comprises pair of timber gates/barriers with cast-iron and steel fittings. Pedestrian turnstile. Flanked by section of rubble limestone walling.

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).

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

Name

Farranistick

Area

358,384 m² (35.84 ha, 88.56 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Owel, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Culleen More, Irishtown, Tullaghan

Placenames

Farranistick 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.