Piercefield
Townland in the civil parish of Leny, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Baile Phiarais
Parcel 134672
- Area
- 142,471 m² (14.25 ha, 35.21 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
- Piercefield
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA 004046
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Iron 000687
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM011-059 Moated site
Description
Situated on grassland with poorly drained floodplains of Lough Iron immediately to SW and W. Originally Lough Iron was 220m to the W but since the Inny River drainage scheme of the late 1960s the shoreline is now 560m to W. Farrow Castle (WM011-055----) 400m to NE. A rectangular shaped raised area (approx. dims. 28m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with causewayed entrance at ENE. The entrance is represented by a gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 6m; H 0.5m) across the fosse and a gap (3.7m) in the outer bank. The inner bank is highest at the SW corner, and is best preserved along the NE side. It has several disturbance gaps at ESE and along the NW side, and is almost completely levelled elsewhere. The outer bank is very poorly preserved along the NE side, and is fragmentary elsewhere. There is an entrance at ENE represented by a gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 6m; H 0.5m) across the fosse and a gap (3.7m) in the outer bank. At ENE the inner bank swells to form a sub-rectangular shaped mound (diam. 10.8m NNW-SSE; 8.8m WSW-ENE; H 1.6m) which flanks the entrance feature. The interior slopes gently from NE-SW. A depression (Wth 6m; D 0.2m) is visible extending NNW-SSE across the NE quadrant of the interior. Externally there is a small D-shaped annexe of uncertain date on the NE side of the monument. A post-1700 drainage ditch aligned NW-SE runs past the W side of the moated site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 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
- 106.3 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 87,377 m² (8.74 ha, 21.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Piercefield, from 1,225 m² to 219,841 m² (21.98 ha, 54.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Piercefield 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
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA 004046
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Iron 000687
Recorded monuments
- 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
- WM011-170 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on grassland with townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran 80m to S. Cropmark of circular enclosure or possible ringfort visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Ringfort (WM011-095----) 100m to SSW. Large ringfort (WM011-096----) 540m to NNE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Architectural heritage
- Outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of two detached single-storey four and five-bay outbuildings, built c.1820 arranged around a courtyard. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with cut limestone trim to openings. Four segmental-headed carriage arch openings with cut stone voussoirs and remains of timber sheeted double-doors to outbuilding to west. Square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings to outbuilding to north. Pair of limestone gate piers on square plan with cut stone coping over and pair of decorative cast-iron gates to east. Set back from road in own grounds.
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 Piercefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Piercefield · Baile Phiarais
- Area
- 1,063,395 m² (106.34 ha, 262.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaree
- Electoral division
- Portloman, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farrow, Grangegeeth, Mountmurray, Piercefield Or Templeoran, Rathbennett
- Placenames
- Piercefield 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.