Tonyowen Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Foyran, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 109796
- Area
- 111,486 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 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
3 Sept 2025N/a
construct a single storey dwelling house with new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with a percolation area and to bore a new well together with all associated site development works on site
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2535
8 Feb 2023Refused
construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2316
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.
- WM001-041 Cross - Wayside cross
Description
Rising from the top of the S roadside boundary wall and hedge are the poorly preserved remains of a ringed cross with incised naïve crucified Christ on N face of cross. Impossible to examine S side of cross-head as it is now partly covered in vegetation. Drawn by Du Noyer in the 19th century (George Victor Du Noyer, “Cross on roadside. Townland of Foyran near the old church of St Eidan. May 1864,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed January 22, 2020, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23439.). Described in 1928 as 'The head of a cross 2ft. 2in. (0.65m) in breadth, with a solid ring about 1ft. 4in. (0.4m) in diameter. A rude crucifixion is incised on the front. The stone is built into the west fence of the road opposite Foyran Church (WM001-042----)' (Crawford 1928, 57, no. 3). Visited and described in 1980 as 'the fragament of a limestone cross with a solid ring-head. The cross fragment is now lying on the NE side of the roadway a short distance NE of the position marked on the 1910 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Only the head of the cross remains and even that is damaged, one of the arms is completely broken off and another is damaged. Only a small part of the shaft remains but this shows that it expanded towards the base. The surviving edges of the ring of the arms are bevelled. One face of the cross is decorated with an incised 6 petal marigold design set in the centre of the ring. The other face has a crude carving of a figure of Christ crucified incised on it. The figure is only carved in outlined with grooves. The mouth, nose and eyes are crudely represented, while the head leans to one side. The hands of the figure are also roughly shown, the bottom of the trunk and legs are missing. There is what appears to be a double inverted V at the top of the face of the cross above the head of the figure ' (SMR file). This site was visited in 1997 when it was recorded that there is 'no visible trace of the cross despite much searching in the hedgerows by the road' (SMR file). Second wayside cross (WM001-040----) which is similar in shape and size located 220m to NW. Church and graveyard (WM001-042----/042001-) located 85m to NE, holy well (WM001-043----) located c.290m to E. (Fredengren et al. 2010, 114, Pl. 31a and b) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 December 2012
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.