Tonyowen Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Foyran, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 105334
- Area
- 112,231 m² (11.22 ha, 27.73 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Tonyowen Lower
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.
- WM001-045 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. Monument levelled during land reclamation works carried out in 1968. Depicted as an irregular shaped platform on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. The Ordnance Survey Fair Plan of 1837 depicted the monument as an irregular pointed oval-shaped enclosure with its long axis N-S and annotated the earthwork as a ‘fort’. Described in 1968 as a 'small sub-triangular enclosure densely overgrown with bushes. Very slight collapsed stone wall slightly banked up to level interior where outside ground dips'. In 1973 the levelled site was surveyed and described as an 'oval enclosure (dims. 34.3m N-S x 22.3m E-W) most probably a ringfort is demolished. The interior dips slightly from the N-S axis towards the W. The almost level interior area has several slight humps and depressions which were probably made when demolishing the perimeter which is now represented by a low fairly smooth stony scarp. There is no definite evidence of a fosse. There is no visible evidence of an entrance way. No visible evidence of habitation' (ASI Field Report 20/03/1973). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 November 2016
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
- 63.2 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 19,514 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonyowen Lower, from 62 m² to 298,875 m² (29.89 ha, 73.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tonyowen Lower 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 Tonyowen Lower 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 Tonyowen Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WM001-043 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Bishop Hugh's Well or Tobar Aidan is depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Natural spring well located at base of S facing ridge in marshy area with view of Foyran Church (WM001-042----) and graveyard (WM001-042001-) 230m to WNW. Spring well with stream flowing out from to W which is partly enclosed by low stones set on edge some of which appear to be natural rock outcrop. Coins visible in base of well with thorn tree overhanging well the branches of which are festooned with rags and other votive offerings. Modern concrete well pump house located 17m to S. In 1937-9 the following folklore about this holy well was recorded from Finnea National School;'There is another well at Foyran, Castletown Co Westmeath. It is called Bishop Hughes' Well and people come to it from far and near to get its water. We are told that Bishop Hughes was once called on a sick call up the mountains and on his way he lost the key of the tabernacle. He immediately set out to look for it but could not find it. He prayed all night and at day-break he found it. On thanking God and blessing the spot where he found it a spring sprung up. The Bishop told the people that anyone who drank the waters and believed in God that hey would get relief from any suffering they might have ('The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 031; www.duchas.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2018
- WM001-044 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on top of a prominent steep-sided hillock with extensive views of undulating countryside to NW and S. Outline of levelled ringfort visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Described in 1973 as the site of a recently levelled monument consisting of a circular-shaped area defined by a levelled bank visible as a zone of stony earth with slight indication of a filled in fosse visible at N. No evidence of an entrance feature. A shallow irregular depression to NW of centre is of unknown significance, but looks as if it due to disturbance. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 November 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonyowen Lower.
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 Tonyowen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Tonyowen Lower
- Area
- 631,528 m² (63.15 ha, 156.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Foyran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Finnea, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carn, Foyran, Hammondstown And Tonaghmore, Mullaghmeen, Tonyowen Upper
- Placenames
- Tonyowen Lower 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.