Fearmore

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearmore, from 33 m² to 63,498 m² (6.35 ha, 15.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Coole, Westmeath · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 May 2025Conditional

  to replace and remove existing damaged garage at the rear of existing dwelling with a new garage and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560235

• 19 Dec 2024Refused

  mixed use development. The development comprises of the following: (a) 2 storey 80-bed nursing home complete with all necessary roof mounted plant and a service yard to accommodate additional plant and equipment including a sprinkler tank, an ESB sub-station with switch room and bin stores; (b) change of use for from an existing derelict chapel to a convenience store. Permission is also sought for the internal and external modifications to the existing derelict chapel and an outdoor seating area 18.6m2; (c) 44 no. residential units including (i) 22 no. 1 storey 2 bed semi-detached bungalow units; (ii) 17 no. 1 storey 1 bed detached units; (iii) 2 no. 2 storey 3 bed semi-detached units; (iv) 2 no. 2 storey 4 bed semi-detached units; (v) 1 no. 2 storey 3 bed detached unit; (d) lawn bowls green (466m2), allotments (110m2) and park areas (5,668m2); (e) all associated site works including (i) foul and surface water drainage, and water mains; (ii) vehicular/pedestrian entrance and access roads from the existing R395 road to the north and the existing laneway off the R395 road to the east of the site; (iii) bicycle parking (iv) landscaping (v) building signage; and (vi) all other associated site development works. The development is within the curtilage of a protected structure, RPS no.: 003-047, St. Joseph's Orthopaedic Hospital complex as recorded in the Westmeath County Development Plan 2021-2027

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460491

• 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fearmore.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-057 Enclosure
  Description

  Monument only depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch maps and not indicated on subsequent OS maps. St. Joseph's Hospital buildings now occupy the site of the levelled enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien date of upload: 24 January 2020

• WM003-112 Font (present location)
  Description

  The font has been recently removed from St. Nicholas C of I church (WM003-083----) and is now on display inside St. Mary’s R.C. Church or the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Fearmore, Coole Upper (pers. comm. Edel Scally, Westmeath Co. Co. 13/03/2023). Freestanding limestone octagonal shaped font described by Roe (1968, 83) as a ’remarkable and beautifully proportioned octagonal vessel, the under panels of which are chamfered and slightly concave and completed by a chamfered octagonal moulding. The shaft (H 0.4m x Wth 0.14m) is octagonal and finished by a similar moulding, below which is a square base (Wth 0.54m; H 0.11m), the angles of which are so chamfered as to produce a sub-octagonal form. The basin (diam. 0.47m; D 0.19m; T 0.075m) is circular with slightly sloping sides, flat bottom and central drain’. The font is decorated with four human heads, three of which are mitred ecclesiastics and the fourth of a woman that project out from the panels (0.25m x 0.25m) on the side of the font. On the panel between the head of the woman and the mitred ecclesiastic there is an incised inscription in Roman capitals which reads ‘ORATE P ME / THOMA / DOVILE / VICARIO DE / MAYNE / R F S 1630’ which translates as Pray for me, Thomas Dovile, Vicar of Mayne. A second inscription on the panel between two mitred ecclesiastics consists of the capital letters E F followed by a blank space then the letter S followed by the date 1630. One panel of the octagonal shaped shaft is decorated in low relief with ‘a foliate motif of leady tendrils and a zig-zag band running from top to bottom of the design’ (ibid.). The base of the font has four broad chamfer stops and the date 1640 crudely carved into it followed by the words ‘OMEG V’. Font described in 1901 as an ‘octagonal stone font in west porch of church: Four stone heads on outside of basin; two with mitres, one with biretta, and one with some sort of coif(?). On one face of the basin is “ORATE THOMA DOVILLE VIACRIO DE MAYNE R. F. S. 1636”. The basin rests on an octagonal pillar, which stands on a square pedestal’ (Anon. 1901, 120). Cross-reference with WM003-083001- To see a 3D model of the font visit https://skfb.ly/oF7Oz Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 14 March 2023

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 Fearmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Fearmore · Fiar Mór

Area

211,432 m² (21.14 ha, 52.25 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Glore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Coole, Mayne, Newtown, Turbotstown

Placenames

Fearmore 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.