Templemacateer
Townland in the civil parish of Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 100003
- Area
- 265,075 m² (26.51 ha, 65.5 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 50 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Templemacateer
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM031-085 Standing stone
Description
Situated in undulating pasture. Not depicted or named on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated 'Cloghstucka' on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map and shown located adjacent to a roadside field boundary running NW-SE. It is possible that this monument is still preserved in the roadside boundary. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as its location is obscured by the tree-line field boundary.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 55.2 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 41,338 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Templemacateer in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Templemacateer.
Recorded monuments
- WM031-095 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
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
Architectural heritage
- Temple House, house, 1740–1840 · Regional interest
Description
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
Description
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.
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).
Homes sold
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.
The townland
- Name
- Templemacateer
- Area
- 551,699 m² (55.17 ha, 136.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- Electoral division
- Streamstown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnurcher, Dunard (Co. Offaly), Killeenycallaghan, Newtown (Co. Offaly)
- Placenames
- Templemacateer 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.