Rathmore

Area

186,565 m² (18.66 ha, 46.1 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it, 564 m² on the ground

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

Rathmore

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 3 recorded monuments.

• WM018-001 Penitential station
  Description

  Monument located beside the crossroads of Laragh, overlooking Kilmacnevan Church (WM011-115----) and graveyard (WM011-115001-) 550m to the W. Situated on the Hill of Laragh with commanding views in all directions. Penitential station located beside road with access for public via steps built into the roadside wall at SSE. Roughly rectangular-shaped flat-topped grass-covered mound of earth and stones with stone revetment or facing clearly visible on SE side. Stone chair (dims. 0.45m x 0.5m x 0.4m) built into SE face of mound known locally as 'St Patrick's Chair' (ASI Field Report). Statue of St. Patrick standing inside concrete shelter located 8m to SE. Earthworks in field to E appear to be the result of post-1700 quarrying. According to the Estate Records of William Meade Smythe there was a local tradition that, 'St. Patrick when on his journey to Usnagh crossed this hill, and when he reached the top or highest summit he rested. There is a resemblance of a rude chair, where he seated himself. I have heard it stated that people used to visit this chair and seat themselves in it to obtain a cure for pain or hurted back. I was told by a man now long dead that there was a cross erected here just beside the chair he told me he saw portion of the cross' (http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/westmeath/land/legends.txt). Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 66) as following: 'Roughly pointed-oval or eye-shaped mound (10m x 5.5m), its long axis running ENE-WSW, revetted by slabs of stone and dry-walling up to 1m in height, possibly ancient, with a roughly constructed stone chair at edge on SE side. Central part of mound rises slightly above revetment. A small modern statue of St. Patrick in a concrete shelter stands a short distance to SSE. Stone chair is named after St. Patrick and resembles a rough stone chair constructed beside a mass-rock in Rathduff townland about 1km to S. Mound lies at cross-roads and road clearly curves around it on N side, indicating its presence here when the infrastructure was developed. Although this mound cannot be classified as a prehistoric barrow on the basis of its current appearance, and has clearly functioned in and been shaped by recent pilgrimage tradition, it is nonetheless located near the summit of the prominent Hill of Laragh 1km to NW of a genuine mound-barrow or cairn (WM018-004---) and conceivably represents an altered or reused burial mound'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Levelled ringfort situated on SW-facing slope of a gently sloping hill, in pasture with good views to S, SW and W. A ringfort (WM017-003----) lies c. 80m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 42m N-S; 37m E-W) intersected at WNW by a townland boundary running NE-SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure with a small circular feature outlined by a scarp at the centre, which may represent a house site (WM018-002001-). Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a penannular-shaped earthwork which is open to E. Upstanding monument described in 1963 as an 'old farmyard. Rather nondescript enclosure (43 paces across NW-SE) on ground falling to SW. Upper (NE) end is undefined but lower end (SW) is banked up (with small field stones, etc) to make a level space. Foundations of small approximately square building (9-10 paces each way) in the middle' (OPW Field Report 30/03/1966). Monument levelled between 1966 and 1970 when it was described as a completely levelled circular earthwork (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a clayey band (Wth 2.5m) of differential growth which contrasts with the surrounding pasture and is likely to represent a backfilled fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. Parts of the interior have been skimmed away. Fragments of charcoal and bones are visible in the disturbed soil. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 January 2019

• WM018-002001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Levelled ringfort situated on SW-facing slope of a gently sloping hill, in pasture with good views to S, SW and W. A ringfort (WM017-003----) lies c. 80m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure (WM018-002-----) with a small circular feature outlined by a scarp at the centre, which may represent a house site. No surface remains visible of levelled square-shaped house site inside levelled ringfort. Upstanding monument described in 1966 as an 'old farmyard. Rather nondescript enclosure (43 paces across NW-SE) on ground falling to SW. Upper (NE) end is undefined but lower end (SW) is banked up (with small field stones, etc) to make a level space. Foundations of small approximately square building (9-10 paces each way) in the middle' (OPW Field Report 30/03/1966). Monument levelled between 1966 and 1970 when it was described as a completely levelled circular earthwork defined by a clayey band of differential growth which contrasts with the surrounding pasture and is likely to represent a backfilled fosse. Fragments of charcoal and bones are visible in the disturbed soil. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 January 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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.