Mountmurray
Townland in the civil parish of Portnashangan, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 110024
- Area
- 87,377 m² (8.74 ha, 21.59 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
19 Dec 2019N/a
for conversion and extension to existing stone outbuilding for the use as guest/short term rental accommodation including a 34.1 sqm extension to existing stone outbuilding to form a link to existing dwelling, construct new stables, installation of additional new soil polishing filter for existing treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196351
19 Jul 2019N/a
conversion of existing stone outbuilding to liveable space, including a 34.1sqm extension to existing stone outbuilding, to form a link to existing dwelling, construction of new stables, equestrian sand arena, new soil polishing filter and all ancillary site services
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196198
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.
- WM011-096 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in grassland on the N face of a prominent hill with good views of the surrounding countryside. A large circular shaped area (approx. diam. 81m N-S; 83m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening wide shallow fosse. The inner bank is substantial, but has been levelled from ENE-E-SE, and the fosse has been filled in from E-SE. The outer bank is best preserved on the N & S sides. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior. A field fence running ESE-WSW intersects the monument, and utilises the inner bank as part of the fence from ESE-S-WSW. The bank has been steepened and faced with dry stone walling where it has been used as a fence. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountmurray.
- 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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
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
- Census 2022
- Portloman electoral division: 322 people in 121 households; 94% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- 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. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.