Moycashel

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moycashel, from 239 m² to 541,333 m² (54.13 ha, 133.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Moycashel 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.

• 1 Jun 2024Conditional

  construction of a four bedroom two story dwelling and Garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area, new domestic dwelling and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460188

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling (211.5sqm) and domestic garage (37.5sqm) and a new shared domestic and agricultural entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought to install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22398

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 Moycashel.

Recorded monuments

• WM037-011 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in generally level pasture, with fairly extensive views, particularly to S and W. Moycashel Castle is depicted as a tower house type structure with flag pole rising from the battlements on the 1655 Down Survey map of Moycashel Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The 1655 Down Survey map of Ardnurcher parish shows the tower house annotated 'Castle' standing on lands belonging to 'Rosse Geoghagen' [Ross Geoghegan] who is listed as an Irish Papist' (ibid.). Castle ruins depicted on Larkin's 1808 Map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580) and described in 1806 as 'Moycashel castle ruins' (Sleater 1806, 51). In 1837 the castle was described as 'the McGeoghegan's, chiefs of Moycashel, of whose ancient castle there are still some remains' (Lewis 1837). Site of Moycashel Castle described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. An oval-shaped cropmark visible on OSI aerial photographs may be the site of the levelled castle. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 26 December 2019

• WM037-012 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated in generally level pasture. Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Levelled monument is visible today as a large circular-shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 75m) on Digital Globe aerial photography. Could have been the site of a designed landscape feature or a tree-ring associated with Ballard House located 465m to W. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Moycashel, walled garden, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden complex associated with Moycashel House (not in survey), built c.1835. Rubble limestone walls with entrance gateway to the east side of complex, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having replacement gates. Integral square-headed pedestrian entrance to the north side of the main gate having a cut stone lintel over and replacement gate. Located to the south of Moycashel House and to the southwest of Kilbeggan.

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).

No address of the register names Moycashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Moycashel

Area

2,727,243 m² (272.72 ha, 673.92 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballymore, Ballard, Ballycahan, Clongowly, Kilgaroan, Lismoyny

Placenames

Moycashel 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.