Snimnagorta
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymore, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 107.6 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 4,388 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Snimnagorta, from 464 m² to 326,374 m² (32.64 ha, 80.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Snimnagorta 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
14 Feb 2017Conditional
Planning Permission for the construction of a new private dwelling, fuel store and storage shed, new entrance and boundary treatment, domestic septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177024
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Snimnagorta.
Recorded monuments
- WM023-047 Standing stone
Description
Situated on a low rise, in pasture. A souterrain (WM023-048----) lies c. 40m to S. Annotated ‘Clogh Stuckagh’ on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1978 as a large upright slab of limestone (H 2.35m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.6m) tapering towards the top, long-axis aligned N-S, with fairly smooth surfaces. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019
- WM023-048 Souterrain
Description
Situated S of a low rise, in pasture. A standing stone (WM023-047----) lies c. 40m to N. Depicted as a narrow linear trench (approx. dims. L 28m; Wth 7m) orientated E-W on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6’ map. Monument described in 1981 as no surface remains visible. According to local information, there was a ‘cave’ in this vicinity, although its precise location is unknown. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Snimnagorta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Snimnagorta
- Area
- 1,075,879 m² (107.59 ha, 265.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Ballymore, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore, Glebe, Harrystown, Milltown, Mullenmeehan
- Placenames
- Snimnagorta 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.