Tornanstown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tornanstown, from 1,834 m² to 214,976 m² (21.5 ha, 53.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Tornanstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tornanstown 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 the townland of Tornanstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM026-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle ESE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Trivallate monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32.5m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, an intervening bank, an outer fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved where it is high and steep from NE-E-S and is practically reduced to a scarp from S-W-N-NE. The intervening fosse is wide and deep and the intervening earthen bank is substantial. This bank has a modern gap at WNW and another at NNE. There is a wide outer fosse visible from SE-S-W-NNW which has part of a modern field bank along the outer edge from WNW-W-S-SSE. The remains of an outer earthen bank are slight and are visible from WNW-NNW and from SE-SSE. This outermost bank appears to have been modified from SE-SSE where it swings in to meet the middle bank at ESE and where it crosses the entrance gap. This wide entrance gap (Wth at top 5.5m; basal Wth 1.6m) is located in the inner bank and there is a corresponding gap (Wth at top 10m; basal Wth 4.5m) in the intervening bank. There are also vague suggestions of a causeway (overall Wth 8.2m; Wth at top 3m; H 0.2m) across the intervening fosse at this point. The interior has a general ESE-facing slope. A townland boundary encloses the monument from SE-S-W. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

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 Tornanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Tornanstown

Area

525,110 m² (52.51 ha, 129.76 acres)

Civil parish

Lynn, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Russellstown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmoyle, Clownstown, Vilanstown

Placenames

Tornanstown 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.