Mountmurray
Townland in the civil parish of Portnashangan, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 107748
- Area
- 150,032 m² (15 ha, 37.07 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
- Mountmurray
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM011-104 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Surveyed in 2012 and described by McGuinness (2012, 25-6) as following: ‘Very large, high relief, roughly circular ring-barrow (Diam. 49m NE¬‐SW x 46m NW-SE), situated in pasture on broad summit of hill (133m OD). Monument is mostly well preserved, although parts of outer bank have been removed, and except for SW and NE sides, its perimeter is covered by trees and bushes. Monument comprises a central, steep-sided platform with flattish to slightly convex upper surface, surrounded by a ditch, from 4-4.5m in width and mostly flat-bottomed except where mound and bank have partly slipped in on N side; and an outer bank, ranging from 6-7.5m in width where best preserved at N, NE and SW. On N side, bank rises 0.8m above external ground level and 2m above base of ditch. At E, W and SW, stretches of outer bank 1m, 6m and 5.5m in length respectively have been removed or severely damaged; the bank is also quite poorly preserved for an arc of 12m on SE side, and parts of its outer edge on N and S sides have been shorn off by passing farm vehicles. At the damaged SW part, the bank has been much reduced in size and, for 0.7m, entirely breached; and about 2.5m to W of this gap the bank bulges both inside and out, by as much as 4m on outer, SW side and reaches its greatest width (8.5m) and height above external ground level (1.1m). This bulge, much larger than the adjoining, well-preserved stretch of bank on same (SW) side of monument and apparently not original, may be composed of spoil from damaged bank to E. At numerous spots where cattle have eroded the bank, it can be seen to be composed of exceptionally stony earth. Maximum depth of ditch below and perpendicular to a line joining top of bank to upper surface of platform on NE and SW sides is 1.17m and 1.15m respectively. Central platform appears to rise little, if at all, above surrounding ground. Its basal diameter is 25m N-S x 27m E-W, the slightly greater length of the E-W axis being due to partial slippage of platform into ditch; it rises up to 1m above base of ditch. A second, almost identical ring-barrow (WM011-103----) lies less than 200m to SW. Running N-S c. 64.5m to WSW is a very large field fence, comprising a flat-topped bank 4m in width up to 1m high on E side and up to 1.5m high on W side. About 61.5m to ENE of second ring‐barrow (WM011-103----) this field fence kinks sharply, running (with ditch on NW side) in a SW direction and cutting through SE side of WM011-103----, where it has been partly converted into a trackway. This bank and associated ditch appear to be a part of the monument identified by Kane (1916-17, 550-57) as the ‘Black Pig’s Dyke’, based on an interpretation of place-names, folklore and medieval literary sources. But for trees, Frewin Hill (WM011-133----; WM011-132----) would be visible to S and Lough Owel to SE’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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.
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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
- 143.8 ha
- 355 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountmurray. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mountmurray 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
No planning application touches the townland of Mountmurray 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Owel SAC 000688
- Special Protection Area: Lough Owel SPA 004047
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Owel 000688
Recorded monuments
- WM011-061 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a natural rise in undulating grassland, on the demesne lands of Mount Murray House located 540m to SSE. The tree-lined earthwork visible on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map was located immediately W to the avenue leading up to Mount Murray with gate lodge 115m to N. Lough Owel is visible 320m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. No surface remains of this levelled monument. At the time of the site visit in 1972 the field had been ploughed and all was visible was a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 29.4m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) with remains of a shallow fosse (Wth 8.2m; D 0.3m) from ESE-S-NNW. The interior slopes slightly from WSW-ENE and contains scatters of burnt stone, bone and teeth. This levelled site is visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017
- WM011-106 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a high prominent hill in grassland on the demesne lands of Mount Murray overlooking Lough Owel 140m to E. Mount Murray house located 375m to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure and annotated ‘fort’. No surface remains visible of this levelled monument. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 19m E-W) enclosed by a light-coloured band of vegetation (Wth 2.9m) marks the site of the levelled monument. The interior has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run N-S. There is a small depression W of centre which along with L-shaped vegetation growth may suggest the presence of a souterrain. This possible ringfort was located at NE end of a tree plantation on the demesne lands of Mount Murray and it is likely that the monument may have been reused as a landscape feature. Alternatively the earthwork may have been built as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 August 2017
Architectural heritage
- Mount Murray House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1780 and remodeled c.1820 with addition of semi-circular bow to southeast façade. Two-storey extensions to rear (northwest). Modern single-bay single-storey porch to entrance front. Now in use as a private dwelling. Low hipped natural slate roof with cut stone chimneystacks and terracotta chimneypots. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Tripartite timber sliding sash windows to northeast elevation. Central round-headed doorcase behind later porch with cut limestone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Glazed timber door and sidelights to porch. Set back from the road in extensive mature grounds, overlooking Lough Owel, with complex of outbuildings to the rear (west).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mountmurray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Mountmurray
- Area
- 1,437,969 m² (143.8 ha, 355.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Portnashangan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaree
- Electoral division
- Portloman, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrath, Grangegeeth, Kilpatrick, Piercefield, Rathbennett
- Placenames
- Mountmurray 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.