Lurrig
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownkindalen, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 5678390
- Area
- 36,912 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lurrig
Planning applications on this parcel
13 May 2023N/a
renovation of existing two storey farmhouse to include on ground floor living area, hall, w.c., Kitchen & dining area and on first floor two bedrooms and a bathroom and to convert existing shed at the side to a utility and storage area and to install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360131
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- WM031-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM031-074----) lies c. 135m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped earthwork (overall dims. 40m N-S; 35m E-W) with a straight side to S. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a ‘Gravel Pit’. Levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a faint light-green coloured D-shaped cropmark consistent with the depiction of the gravel pit on the OS 25-inch map. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-074 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. A stream flows close to N and E. Ringfort (WM031-073----) lies c. 135m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. 35m) defined by an irregular bank which is low and is almost reduced to a scarp. The interior is relatively level with the outline of two possible house sites (WM031-074001-). A low bank projects from the bank at S and joins the end of one of the house sites. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped, partly tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-074001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. A stream flows close to N and E. In the centre of ringfort (WM031-074001-) are two roughly rectangular-shaped house sites or one house with two rooms. This building may be the structure depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A low bank running N-S projects from the bank of the ringfort at S to the SE corner of the central house site. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 37.1 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,822 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurrig, from 82 m² to 119,196 m² (11.92 ha, 29.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lurrig 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Feb 2020Conditional
alterations and extension to existing dwelling to incorporate granny flat and new velux type windows to existing bedrooms, alterations to site boundary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206029
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lurrig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lurrig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lurrig.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lurrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lurrig
- Area
- 370,829 m² (37.08 ha, 91.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownkindalen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Placenames
- Lurrig 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.