# Templemacateer, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardnurcher or Horseleap, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 551,699 m² (55.17 ha, 136.33 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,338 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardnurcher or Horseleap, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/ardnurcher-or-horseleap.md - Barony: Moycashel - Electoral division: Streamstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Streamstown electoral division: 517 people in 139 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52084 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231254 - Centre: latitude 53.405118, longitude -7.602338 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemacateer, from 1,590 m² to 180,025 m² (18 ha, 44.49 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5060162: 180,025 m² (18 ha, 44.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5060162.md - Parcel 129483: 151,637 m² (15.16 ha, 37.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129483.md - Parcel 5063763: 94,105 m² (9.41 ha, 23.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063763.md - Parcel 129514: 57,260 m² (5.73 ha, 14.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129514.md - Parcel 5060182: 41,338 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5060182.md - Parcel 5212712: 16,437 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5212712.md - Parcel 5119437: 5,213 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5119437.md - Parcel 4637206: 4,094 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637206.md - Parcel 129464: 1,590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/129464.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Templemacateer in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Templemacateer in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Templemacateer. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM031-095: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM031-095----. Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 16) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the semi-circular field pattern to N, NE, E and S of Abbey site (WM031-095001-). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2015 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Temple House, house, 1740–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15403110, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403110. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1760 and altered c.1840, having an attached single-bay two-storey flat-roofed wing to the south and various two-storey returns to the rear (west). Now in use as a health spa. High-pitched natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves with clay ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks to either end having terracotta chimney pots over. Crenellated parapet to flat-roofed extension to south. Roughcast rendered walls to front façade (east) with lime rendered and slight base-batter to the rear (west). Rubble stone construction to rear extension (west). Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to main structure. Central round-headed architraved doorcase with keystone over, having a timber panelled door with plain fanlight over. Flat-roofed extension to south has tripartite Wyatt-style one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to the front elevation (east) and a projecting box-bay window with tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to the south elevation. Set well back from road in mature grounds with extensive outbuildings to rear. Pair of channelled ashlar limestone gate piers, on square-plan, with pyramidal capstones over and cast-iron double-gates to south. Built on the site of a medieval abbey. Located in undulating rural landscape a short distance (1km) to the northwest of the village of Horseleap. - Temple House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15403112, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403112. Main entrance gates serving Templemacateer House (15403110), erected c.1830, comprising a pair of channelled ashlar limestone gate piers, on square-plan having shallow pyramidal capstones over, supporting a pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked to the east and west by short sections of snecked dressed limestone walls having cut limestone coping over. Rubble limestone boundary walls with crenellated coping run away to the east and west. Located to the south of Templemacateer House (15403110) and to the northwest of Horseleap. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Templemacateer. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/templemacateer.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/templemacateer.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/templemacateer.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Templemacateer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnurcher: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnurcher.md - Dunard (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/dunard.md - Killeenycallaghan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeenycallaghan.md - Newtown (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180993.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/templemacateer - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/templemacateer