# Farrow, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Leny, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,643,261 m² (164.33 ha, 406.06 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 142,347 m² (14.23 ha, 35.17 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Leny, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/leny.md
- Barony: Corkaree
- Electoral division: Ballinalack, the unit of the census
- County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51463
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230616
- Centre: latitude 53.604008, longitude -7.459206 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrow, from 826 m² to 481,644 m² (48.16 ha, 119.02 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 134451: 481,644 m² (48.16 ha, 119.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134451.md
- Parcel 108485: 219,707 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/108485.md
- Parcel 109998: 201,241 m² (20.12 ha, 49.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109998.md
- Parcel 133975: 177,139 m² (17.71 ha, 43.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133975.md
- Parcel 134672: 142,471 m² (14.25 ha, 35.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134672.md
- Parcel 133742: 142,223 m² (14.22 ha, 35.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133742.md
- Parcel 133974: 130,337 m² (13.03 ha, 32.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133974.md
- Parcel 109463: 72,863 m² (7.29 ha, 18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109463.md
- Parcel 109460: 57,861 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109460.md
- Parcel 108646: 826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/108646.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Farrow 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Farrow in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA, site code 004046, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004046
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Iron, site code 000687

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WM011-055: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM011-055----. Farrow Castle is situated in the farmyard of Castle Quarter amongst a cluster of buildings and depicted as an upstanding building on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Located 725m E of the shoreline of Lough Iron. Annotated on this map as ‘Castle (in ruins)’ and as 'Castle (Site of) on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map suggesting that the castle was levelled between the two dates. Only the mortared stone foundations of the N, S and W (L 5.6m; T 0.6m) walls of a rectangular structure of uncertain date are visible adjacent to some disused farm buildings. The wall thickness measuring 0.6m would suggest that this wall dates from the post-1700 period and not from the medieval castle. Directly N of the castle site marked on the OS 6-inch map are the remains of a strongly built stone house with fireplace at one end. There is a substantial buttress on the N wall of this building. In this house there is a fragment of dressed limestone now used as a fireplace lintel appears to have been a medieval jambstone from a door or window in the medieval castle. Farroe Castle is depicted as a tower house type structure on the 1654-59 Down Survey map of Leny parish (NLI, MS 729). On this map the castle is shown standing on the lands of Sir Thomas Nugent who is described as an ‘Irish Papist’ and the owner of 200 acres of arable land in the townland of Farrow. The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of Leny recorded that ‘there are in this parish six castles vizt. at Rathbennett (WM011-060----), Farrow Cullanhue (WM011-007----) Ballinafid (WM011-077----) each one & at Ballinilack two castles (WM006-048----/-049----)’ (ibid.). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 August 2017
- WM011-059: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM011-059----. Situated on grassland with poorly drained floodplains of Lough Iron immediately to SW and W. Originally Lough Iron was 220m to the W but since the Inny River drainage scheme of the late 1960s the shoreline is now 560m to W. Farrow Castle (WM011-055----) 400m to NE. A rectangular shaped raised area (approx. dims. 28m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with causewayed entrance at ENE. The entrance is represented by a gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 6m; H 0.5m) across the fosse and a gap (3.7m) in the outer bank. The inner bank is highest at the SW corner, and is best preserved along the NE side. It has several disturbance gaps at ESE and along the NW side, and is almost completely levelled elsewhere. The outer bank is very poorly preserved along the NE side, and is fragmentary elsewhere. There is an entrance at ENE represented by a gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 6m; H 0.5m) across the fosse and a gap (3.7m) in the outer bank. At ENE the inner bank swells to form a sub-rectangular shaped mound (diam. 10.8m NNW-SSE; 8.8m WSW-ENE; H 1.6m) which flanks the entrance feature. The interior slopes gently from NE-SW. A depression (Wth 6m; D 0.2m) is visible extending NNW-SSE across the NE quadrant of the interior. Externally there is a small D-shaped annexe of uncertain date on the NE side of the monument. A post-1700 drainage ditch aligned NW-SE runs past the W side of the moated site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 August 2017

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 Farrow.

## 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 Farrow, 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farrow.
- 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/farrow.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/farrow.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/farrow.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Farrow 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)

- Ballyvade: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballyvade.md
- Cullenhugh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cullenhugh.md
- Piercefield: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/piercefield.md
- Rathaniska: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rathaniska.md
- Rathbennett: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rathbennett.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.

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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/farrow
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