Farrow

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrow, from 826 m² to 481,644 m² (48.16 ha, 119.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Farrow 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.

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

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA 004046
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Iron 000687

Recorded monuments

• WM011-055 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farrow.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

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

Name

Farrow

Area

1,643,261 m² (164.33 ha, 406.06 acres)

Civil parish

Leny, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Ballinalack, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvade, Cullenhugh, Piercefield, Rathaniska, Rathbennett

Placenames

Farrow 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.