Shrubbywood
Townland in the civil parish of Mayne, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 114.9 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 14,506 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shrubbywood, from 2,626 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 437,469 m² (43.75 ha, 108.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shrubbywood 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
22 May 2020N/a
A 10 year permission to upgrade, reorientation and expansion of previously permitted electricity substation granted as part of Coole Wind Farm (Pl. Ref 17/6292; ABP Ref PL25M/300686) in the townland of Camagh (Fore by). The laying of underground cabling predominantly along the public road corridor to facilitate the connection to the national grid of the permitted wind farm along a route measuring approximately 26.4 kilometres, through the townlands listed below, between the proposed substation in the townland of Camagh (Fore by) and the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown (Moyashel and Magheradernon by). Works to complete the cable connection to the existing Mullingar 110kV electricity substation including the construction of a dedicated bay within the existing substation compound in the townland of Irishtown(Moyashel and Magheradernon by). All associated site works and ancillary development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206121
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: Garriskil Bog SAC 000679
- Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684
Recorded monuments
- WM006-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on low-lying ground 60m to the E of the River Inny, and surrounded by bog land c. 500m away on all sides. A circular shaped area (diam. 33m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, best preserved at S and NNW, and almost completely levelled elsewhere, with slight traces of an external fosse at S. The site is bisected by a post-1700 field bank and drain running N-S. The interior is slightly raised. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shrubbywood.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shrubbywood.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shrubbywood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Shrubbywood
- Area
- 1,148,922 m² (114.89 ha, 283.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Coole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coole electoral division: 249 people in 98 households; 91% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinealoe, Clonava, Coolnagun, Derrya
- Placenames
- Shrubbywood on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.