Sheskernagh

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheskernagh, from 3,611 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 180,640 m² (18.06 ha, 44.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Sheskernagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Sheskernagh 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 the townland of Sheskernagh.

Recorded monuments

• WM001-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural hillock with extensive views to S, SW & NW restricted views elsewhere. Roughly circular raised area (diam. 33.5m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (ext. H 1-2m) best preserved from S-SW elsewhere reduced to a scarp with slight traces of a fosse visible at N only. The scarp appears to have been steepened in modern times and a modern stone wall intersects the site at NE. There is a modern field fence on the top of the scarp from W-N. Entrance gap (top Wth 5.5m; base Wth 2.5m) at N and second entrance gap (top Wth 4.2m; base Wth 1.8m) at S, however both of these have a modern appearance. The interior of the ringfort is uneven, rising from the bank in the NE quadrant and then dropping down towards the bank to S & E. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 November 2016

• WM003-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in modern woodland plantation on top of natural rise with good views in all directions now obscured by the forest. A raised sub-circular area (approx. diam. 27m WNW-ESE) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse (approx. Wth 1.5m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 2.7m) at NE. The inner bank (ext. H 1.8m; int. H 0.3m) of earth and stone has evidence of stone revetment along the internal face while the outer bank (Wth 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) has evidence of external stone facing. The outer bank has been removed on both sides of the entrance. The interior has a general slight slope rising towards the centre. An OPW report from 1966 suggested the possibility that this earthwork may have been the remains of a tree-ring of post 1700 date (OPW field report, 03/03/1966). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheskernagh.

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 Sheskernagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Sheskernagh

Area

425,725 m² (42.57 ha, 105.2 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgarve, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Hilltown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanus, Hammondstown And Tonaghmore, Tonyowen Upper

Placenames

Sheskernagh 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.