Mountmurray
Townland in the civil parish of Portnashangan, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 131886
- Area
- 209,450 m² (20.95 ha, 51.76 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 4 recorded monuments.
- WM011-098 Moated site
Description
Situated on top of a low ridge running NE-SW with good views of surrounding grassland. Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 540m to W, Mullenoran Bridge 1km to NNW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran is 100m to W. A sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) enclosed by two massive earthen banks and an intervening fosse with external fosse. A long rectangular building/house or barn (WM011-098001-) defined by an earthen bank, with an internal division and a door at NE occupies most of the interior. The interior slopes slightly from SE-NW, and has been quarried into at SW quadrant. There is a causeway across the fosse at N. Field fences enclose this monument on the N, E & W sides. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017
- WM011-098001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated on top of a low ridge running NE-SW with good views of surrounding grassland. Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 540m to W, Mullenoran bridge 1km to NNW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran is 100m to W. A long rectangular building or house (dims. 19.5m NE-SW; 5.15m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.45m), with an internal division and a door (Wth 2m) at NE occupies most of the interior of a moated site (WM011-098----). See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017
- WM011-101 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a small natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views from NW-NE. Moated site (WM011-098----) 320m to NE, Ringfort (WM011-102----) 30m to SE, Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 350m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly circular earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Not indicated on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. It appears to have been constructed against the W side of the road which marks the boundary with Grangegeeth townland. No surface remains visible of this site that was probably levelled between 1837 and 1911. A modern dwelling house and garden have been built on the site of the levelled enclsure which us visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017
- WM011-102 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a small natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views from WSW-N. Moated site (WM011-098----) 320m to NE, possible ringfort (WM011-101----) 30m to NW. A raised oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. The bank has been levelled from WNW-N-NE, and from NE-E-S the monument has been reduced to exterior ground level by quarrying. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior of the monument, which rises slightly towards the centre. The road which marks the boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran townland intersects the site at W. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 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).
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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.
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).
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.