Soho

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Soho, from 5,058 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres) to 305,175 m² (30.52 ha, 75.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Soho 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.

• 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.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Soho.

Architectural heritage

• Soho House, house, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, having open cast-iron porch and balcony to centre of front façade (south), added c.1860. Hipped natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, overhanging eaves and a pair of central rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Central shallow segmental-headed doorcase having timber double doors with octagonal panels, sidelights and a radial fanlight over. Cut stone steps to the entrance front. Square-headed opening to centre of first floor, above porch, having French double doors. Main entrance to the south and complex of outbuildings to the rear (north). Located to the northwest of Multyfarnham.

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

Name

Soho

Area

454,042 m² (45.4 ha, 112.2 acres)

Civil parish

Multyfarnham, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Multyfarnham, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclonagh, Donore, Lackan, Rathganny

Placenames

Soho 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.