Skeahanagh

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeahanagh, from 68 m² to 227,402 m² (22.74 ha, 56.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Skeahanagh 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.

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system and associated polishing filter and shared existing entrance onto public lane and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206010

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of a four bedroom house and garage. The application will also include the installation of a new effluent treatment system and raised percolation area and all other minor site works and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186035

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• WM038-027 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial roughly circular-shaped enclosure intersected at S and W by field boundaries. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map but shown as a subcircular-shaped scrub-covered enclosure (dims. 38m N-S; 39m E-W). Outline of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 18 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Skeahanagh Bridge, bridge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge spanning dried-up section of the Grand Canal (Kilbeggan Branch), built c.1831, with curved flanking walls to either end (east and west). Constructed of ashlar limestone with ashlar limestone voussoirs to arch and a projecting ashlar limestone string course at road level. Cut stone plaque to the north parapet reads ‘Mann Bridge 1831’. Towpath to the east bank. Located to the southeast of Kilbeggan.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1830. Pitched thatched roof with a pair of rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, cut stone sills and timber top-hung casement windows. Central square-headed doorway with rendered reveals and a replacement timber sheeted door. Located on north bank of disused Grand Canal (Kilbeggan Branch) with series of outbuildings to the rear (north) and a rubble stone outbuilding to the east (15438022). Gateway to the east side of house, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers on square-plan supporting a wrought-iron gate, gives access to the rear. Located to the southeast of Kilbeggan.

• Outbuilding, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan, built c.1890. Hipped slate roof (with both natural and artificial slate), clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of limestone rubble with brick dressings to a number of the openings. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and cast-iron casement windows. Square-headed door opening to the centre of the south elevation having timber sheeted half doors. Three segmental-headed carriage arches to the west elevation having brick dressings. Carriage arch to the south end retains timber sheeted double doors. Sited adjacent to thatched house (15403821) immediately to the north side of the now disused Grand Canal (Kilbeggan Branch). Located to the southeast 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 Skeahanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Skeahanagh

Area

971,592 m² (97.16 ha, 240.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeggan, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Ardnaglew, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghuldred, Ardnaglew, Clonaglin, Demesne Or Mearsparkfarm, Kilbeggan, Kilbeggan North, Kilbeggan South

Placenames

Skeahanagh 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.