Snimnagorta

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.

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.

• 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.

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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with attic storey, built c.1820. Pitched corrugated metal roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, cut stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement door. Complex of rendered outbuildings to site having pitched corrugated metal roof. Freestanding cast-iron water pump and trough adjacent to house. Site bounded by mature hedge with cast-iron entrance gate. Located to the south of Ballymore.

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

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.