Tonashammer

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonashammer, from 57 m² to 210,450 m² (21.05 ha, 52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  Restoration and extension of existing house and outbuildings, provision of ancillary residential accommodation, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196339

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  construction of a single and storey and a half type extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling to include internal modifications to existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank and construct new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196126

• 9 May 2017Conditional

  to erect a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage and to install a waste water treatment system with percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176143

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Naneagh 001814

Recorded monuments

• WM003-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in modern forestry plantation on S facing slope of rising ground with good views to E, S and W now obscured by trees. A circular area (approx. diam. 22m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank that has been levelled from NE-E-S with slight traces of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. Several disturbance gaps of modern appearance in the enclosing bank. The interior slopes gently from NW-SE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• WM003-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a modern forestry plantation, on a natural rise of ground with good views in all directions now obscured by trees. A sub-circular area (approx. diam. 17m NE-SW) defined by a slight earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp and traces of an external fosse visible at NE, S and W only with possible entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NE. Grass covered wall footings of a rectangular house (WM003-024001-) in centre of interior. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• WM003-024001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated in a modern forestry plantation, on a natural rise of ground with good views in all directions now obscured by trees. The grass covered wall footings of a rectangular house are visible in the centre of a ringfort (WM003-024----). There is an entrance to the house on the N side. An ESB pole has been erected inside the hut site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• WM003-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock with good views of undulating countryside. No surface remains visible. Site depicted as a circular enclosure on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not depicted on revised 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map. Curve in E field boundary may follow line of E side of enclosure that is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• WM004-001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in hilly undulating pasture land with extensive views to the N. Lough Naneagh 430m to SE. Stream forming townland boundary which flows out of Lough Naneagh forms E field boundary 10m NE of motte. Castle (WM001-050----) located 420m to NW, present roadway curves around S side of motte. A steep-sided gently round-topped mound (Wth 3-4m; H 6m), enclosed by a fosse from NW-N-E only, stands on the SSW edge of a circular area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a substantial earth and stone bank, fosse and external bank and outer fosse only visible from E-S-W. From SE-S-W a modern laneway and fence encloses this outer fosse. A narrow causeway entrance is visible at SSE which gives access to the bailey area adjacent to the base of the motte. The siting of the mound in relation to the enclosing bank of the circular area may suggest that this earthwork was built originally as a bivallate ringfort (overall ext. diam. 59m N-S; 62m E-W). The ringfort was converted to a motte and bailey by the construction of a motte on the SSW perimeter utilising the ringfort bank and using the interior as a bailey for the timber castle. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 December 2016

• WM004-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on natural rise of ground on poorly drained grassland with Lough Doo 90m to SE. Motte and bailey castle (WM004-001---) 520m to N. A sub-circular slightly raised area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (approx. Wth 4.5m), enclosed by a shallow fosse visible from W-NW only with a low bank outside this. No trace of a fosse on other sides of the ringfort. A gap (Wth 1.9m) in the bank at NE may represent the entrance. The outline of a circular hut site (WM004-002001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. Depressions and hollows in the uneven interior appear to be due to modern disturbance. An earthen bank of unknown antiquity sub-divides the NW quadrant of the ringfort interior. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 December 2016

• WM004-002001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on natural rise of ground on poorly drained grassland with Lough Doo 90m to SE. Motte and bailey castle (WM004-001---) 520m to N. The low grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) of a circular hut site (diam. c. 4.3m) is visible in the NW quadrant of a ringfort (WM004-002----). No entrance feature visible. An earthen bank of unknown antiquity sub-divides the NW quadrant of the ringfort. Just outside the hut site at E is a slight irregular depression of unknown significance. There is another slight depression just outside it to SW. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 December 2016

• WM004-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland, 35m W of the townland boundary with Annagh. Depicted as a roughly D-shaped or sub-triangular shaped area (approx. dims. 28m N-S x 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse which is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 January 2019

• WM004-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hillock in woodland plantation that is depicted on 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Circular shaped area enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.4m) best preserved at E and W. Interior covered with trees making detailed examination impossible. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 August 2021

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Tonashammer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Tonashammer · Tóin na Seamar

Area

2,180,253 m² (218.03 ha, 538.75 acres)

Civil parish

St. Feighins, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Hilltown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Co. Meath), Ballymanus, Baltrasna (Co. Meath), Hammondstown And Tonaghmore, Hilltown, Rasillagh (Co. Meath), Rathmea (Co. Meath)

Placenames

Tonashammer 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.