Tobercormick

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tobercormick, from 887 m² to 930,095 m² (93.01 ha, 229.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tobercormick 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling & modifications to the existing front porch as per submitted drawings, inclusive of all relevant ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660455

• 7 Nov 2017Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177197

• 6 Apr 2017N/a

  Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177066

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 Tobercormick.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-093 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Situated on a small knoll (136m/445ft OD) on the northern shoulder of a very steep hill, in pasture. No antiquity depicted at this location on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly square-shaped tree-plantation. Described in 1983 as a roughly square-shaped area (dims. 34m E-W x 33m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (H 1m) that has been rebuilt as a stone faced wall at the NW corner. There are no indications of an external fosse. Square shaped enclosure attached by a linear bank (approx. L 22m; basal Wth 2m; H 1m) forming an avenue leading into a circular-shaped enclosure/tree ring to NE. Earthwork visible as a roughly square-shaped tree-plantation with tree-ring to NE on Digital Globe aerial photography. Probably the remains of a tree-plantation of post-1700 date forming part of the designed landscape belonging to Hallstown House located 710m SSE. Several other circular-shaped enclosures to the S and SE also appear to be the remains of tree-rings of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 December 2018

• WM017-119 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Natural spring annotated as 'Well' on 25-inch OS map may be the well after which the townland was named. In 1488 a Dominican Friary (WM017-098----) was founded at 'Fons-chormaici' or Tobercormick (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 234). This well may be the site of the 'Fons-chormaici' mentioned in the 15th century foundation of Tobercormick Dominican Friary. Alternatively the wells shown on the OS 6-inch map beside Toberville House could be the location of the 'Fons-chormaici'. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 09 January 2019

• WM024-020 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on S-facing slope of a ridge, in pasture, with wide views to S and W. Washford House lies c. 125m to SW. Annotated ‘Standing Stone’ on OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1978 as an upright limestone slab (approx. H 1.95m; base Wth 1.9m; T 0.3m) with slightly rounded top which currently stands inclined at an angle of 45°. A number of small loose stones lie on the surface of the ground. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 31 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1940, with raised 'P&T insignia in Gaelic script above letter slot. Set into rubble limestone boundary wall. Located adjacent to cross road junction to northeast of Ballymore.

• Halston House, house, 1750–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house with central recessed distyle in antis Tuscan entrance porch (south), built c.1760 and altered and extended c.1820. Currently out of use. Four-bay two-storey return to rear (north). Shallow double-hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having cast-iron rainwater water goods. Two rendered chimneystacks to roof valley, parallel to roof ridge. Lime roughcast rendered walls with raised patent cement parallel quoins to corners and a patent cement string course at eaves level. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floors and six-over three-pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings. Patent cement bracketed cornice above ground floor windows and central window to first floor. Diocletian window to centre of ground floor to rear (north) with Venetian window over having cast-iron balcony. Square-headed doorcase to centre of front façade (south) with timber panelled door having leaded overlight above. Main entrance reached by flight of cut stone steps. Set back from road in own grounds with complex of outbuildings to rear (north) and main entrance gate to the east. Located to the northwest of Ballymore.

• Halston House, stables, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (northeast) of Hallstown House, arranged around a central courtyard, built c.1775. Barrel vaulted corrugated-iron roofs to two-storey ranges to north and east (originally pitched and slated) with pitched natural slate roofs elsewhere. Roughcast lime rendered walls over rubble limestone construction with cast-iron wall ties. Square-headed doorcases and segmental-headed carriage arches with ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds having mainly replacement timber doors. Rectangular-shaped window openings over doorcases with multi-pane timber casement windows. Loop hole openings to first floor on two-storey ranges. Two-bay two-storey former house to south end of courtyard with square-headed openings having ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds, six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and timber doors. Main entrance gates adjacent to house to east with segmental-headed carriage arch having limestone block-and-start surround set into rubble limestone wall.

• Halston House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Hallstown House, erected c.1775, comprising pair of roughcast rendered gates piers (on square-plan) having flat cut limestone coping with ball finials over and wrought-iron double gates. Gateway flanked to east and west by sections of roughcast rendered quadrant screen walling having cut limestone coping over. Road fronted to the east of Hallstown House (15401722) with attendant gate lodge adjacent to west.

• Washford Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over small river/stream, built c.1800. Constructed using rubble limestone with dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Cut limestone coping over parapets. Rubble limestone parapets extend as boundary walls to the south, now partially rebuilt using concrete. Located to the east of Ballymore.

• Lurgan House, country house, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1845, with a shallow projecting porch to the centre of the front façade (east). Single-storey return and extensions to the west and a complex of outbuildings to the south. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks, aligned parallel to roof ridge behind roof level. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over projecting cut stone plinth. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening to projecting porch having timber pilasters with console brackets flanking replacement glazed timber double doors. Fanlight over has been infilled and replaced by a fanlight with lattice glazing pattern, moved from one of the outbuildings to the south. Three limestone steps, semi-circular in plan, descend to gravel forecourt. Complex of roughcast rendered rubble limestone outbuildings with to the south, with hipped and pitched natural slate roofs and square-headed openings to the south arranged around a U-shaped enclosure. Complex entered through gateway to the south of the house, comprising limestone gate piers on square plan with cut stone coping over. Main entrance to house to the north of the house, comprising six dressed limestone gate piers, square in plan with cut stone coping over, joined by sections of rubble limestone walling. Inner piers support cast-iron double gates and are flanked to the north and south by curved plinth walls with cast-iron railings over. Approach avenue from the northeast goes over single-arched rubble limestone bridge with dressed limestone voussoirs and cut limestone coping over parapets. Opposite the entrance, on the other side of the road (west), is a semi circular carriage turning bay associated with the main entrance gates, bounded by a rubble stone wall which is now overgrown with vegetation. Stone wheel guards flank the entrance. To the north is a stone well with steps leading down the cut stone hollow. This was built, c.1850, so the locals could collect water from the well without entering the grounds of Washford House. Located to the east of Ballymore and the northwest of Loughanavally.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Tobercormick.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Tobercormick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Tobercormick

Area

2,032,738 m² (203.27 ha, 502.3 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymorin, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymorin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymorin electoral division: 389 people in 126 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymorin, Cappaghjuan, Clonboy or Ballinacor, Dalystown, Gibstown, Killeenerk, Lurgan, Newbristy South, Rathcarra

Placenames

Tobercormick on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.