Modranstown

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Modranstown, from 497,017 m² (49.7 ha, 122.82 acres) to 497,017 m² (49.7 ha, 122.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Modranstown 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 Modranstown 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

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

Recorded monuments

• WM017-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise, in wet, gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval shaped tree-lined enclosure (dims. 47m E-W; 43m N-S) defined by a bank with external fosse, on the W-side of an irregular-shaped field. Annotated as a ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a slightly less regular, oval shaped mound with isolated, linear field boundaries which lie c. 28m to SW and c. 70m to S, respectively. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. No obvious trace visible on modern aerial photography; forestry planted c. 16m to W, c. 30m to NE and c. 75m to SE (Digital Globe; Bing; Google Earth 24/03/2017). Site described by OPW in 1966 as a roughly circular, yet irregular-shaped area defined by a low, tree-lined bank with internal stone facing. Vague traces of small buildings within the interior (considered to be farm buildings) and extensive remains of old field-banks and tillage ridges in the vicinity of the exterior. Monument described by the ASI in 1975 as ‘demolished’. The traces of small buildings within the interior of the ringfort described in 1966 may be the remains of a hut site (WM017-023001-) of uncertain antiquity. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2018

• WM017-023001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise, in wet, gently undulating pasture. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort (WM017-023----). Upstanding monument described by OPW in 1966 as a roughly circular, yet irregular-shaped area defined by a low, tree-lined bank with internal stone facing. Vague traces of small buildings within the interior (considered to be farm buildings) and extensive remains of old field-banks and tillage ridges in the vicinity of the exterior. The traces of small buildings within the interior of the ringfort described in 1966 may be the remains of a hut site of uncertain antiquity. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2018

• WM017-039 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, at the W end of an irregular-shaped ridge (long-axis E-W), in pasture with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small, irregular-shaped area, annotated as 'Cave', which stands immediately E of a public road running NNE-SSW. In 1970 the monument was described as an inaccessible souterrain with no local tradition known. Described in 1980 as a small stone-lined cutting in the N side of a low rise (approx. dims. 40m N-S; 23m E-W). A small, irregular hole has been dug into the top of the rise (by burrowing animals), c. 9m from the roadside fence. This has exposed some stones which could be part of a souterrain, however it is difficult to confirm due to disturbance by a burrow. There is loose stone scattered on the surface of the natural rise. A small stretch of very low scarp on the NE edge of the rise could define the perimeter of an earthwork but this is very indefinite and could be the remnants of old cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW which traverses the area. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• WM017-039001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, at the W end of an irregular ridge (long-axis E-W), in pasture with extensive views in all directions. Not depicted on any OS historic mapping. In 1980 an ASI field report noted a small stretch of very low scarp at the NE edge of the natural rise and suggested that it could potentially define the perimeter of an earthwork. The fieldworker through that it was indefinite and could also be the remains of a residual feature of the cultivation ridges. However the outline of a circular shaped enclosure is visible on Digital Globe photography as a light-green circular cropmark (approx. diam. 54m) enclosing a dark area of rough pasture within the interior. Old cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW are also seen respecting the cropmark of the enclosure suggesting that it was extant before the ridges were formed. A public road running NE-SW truncates the NW sector of the monument. A souterrain (WM017-039----) is located in the W quadrant of this enclosure. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• WM017-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low, natural rise, in generally level pasture with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as the remains of an oval-shaped enclosure which has been truncated by a laneway to N and a building to E. Monument described in 1980 as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 29ms NNW-SSE; 29.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earth and stone bank which is best preserved from SSE-S-W, is slightly lower from SW-W. The bank is reduced to a scarp NW-N-SE. The remains of internal stone facing are visible at SW and W. There is no sign of an entrance. There is no visible trace of an external fosse. The perimeter has been modified from N-E-SE by a modern stone wall and a small shed associated with a house to SSE. The stone wall defines a laneway (long-axis WNW-ESE) to N, which leads to the house. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre and is very uneven. There is a depression in the centre and off-centre to E caused by disturbance which has exposed stone within. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 December 2018

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

Name

Modranstown

Area

497,631 m² (49.76 ha, 122.97 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bigfurze, Corkan, Irishtown, Lisnacask, Rathduff

Placenames

Modranstown 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.