Tyfarnham
Townland in Co. Westmeath, in Irish Tigh Farannáin
- Area
- 127 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 29,617 m² (2.96 ha, 7.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tyfarnham, from 134 m² to 157,063 m² (15.71 ha, 38.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tyfarnham 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
21 Apr 2022Conditional
Continuance of use of existing quarry and associated processing previously permitted under P.Ref. 93/607, Section 261A Substitute Consent (ABP Ref. SU0026) and P.Ref. 21/460. Extension to rock, and sand and gravel extraction areas, works proposed consist of the following; 1. Extraction of rock including blasting operations to a depth of c.28m above OD within an overall quarry extraction area of c.12.5 hectares, with associated mobile crushing and screening plant and the provision of a new internal quarry access ramp, and provision of perimeter screening berms; 2. Lateral extension of c.7.6 hectares to the current sand and gravel extraction area, with dry working above the water table and processing that includes crushing, washing, and screening, and provision of perimeter screening berms; 3.Site screening and landscaping works including restoration to a combination of agricultural use and nature conservation areas; 4. The development proposed seeks to utilise existing permitted ancillary buildings and facilities including fixed field transfer conveyor, silt storage lagoons, portacabin structures comprising of site offices, canteen, and toilets; wheelwash; weighbridge; maintenance shed; bunded fuel storage tanks and hydrocarbon interceptor; effluent treatment systems and percolation areas and carparking area; The proposed development application area is c.41.3 hectares within an overall land interest area of c.58.8 hectares, and all for a period of 40 years. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this Planning Application.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22204
30 Nov 2021Conditional
Recommencement of processing using the exiting crushing, screening and washing plants and associated ancillary infrastructure which was regularised by way of a grant of substitute consent (ABP ref. SU0026). Retention of the existing concrete batching plant (with a maximum overall height of 17m) and associated ancillary infrastructure. Retention of the existing asphalt plant (with a maximum overall height of 22.7m) and associated ancillary infrastructure, which replaced the asphalt plant previously granted permission under planning ref 99/967. Importation to site of up to 100,000 tonnes per annum of aggregate materials for use in the concrete batching and asphalt plants and all within a planning application area of 4.6 hectares.
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21633
25 Nov 2020N/a
The development will consist of permission for continued use of the previously permitted development under Planning reg ref 93/607 Section 261 Ref QY 25 Section 261A substitute consent ABP Ref SU0026 and Planning reg ref 16/6213 consisting of extraction of rock, including blasting operations and all associated mobile crushing and screening plant, extraction of sand and gravel and use of the existing flied field transfer conveyor, concrete batching plan, asphalt plant, aggregate processing plant to include washing (with associated silt storage lagoons) and related ancillary buildings and facilities including portacabin structures consisting of site offices, canteen and toilets, wheelwash, weighbridge, maintenance shed, bunded fuel storage tanks and hydrocarbon interceptor, effluent treatment systems and percolation areas and car parking area, continued extract of rock and extension to the existing rock quarry area to give an overall extraction footprint of c.13.5 hectares to a depth of c. 28m AOD, recommencement of sand and gravel extraction beyond the existing pit area to give an overall extraction footprint of c 10.6 hectares to a depth of c. 68m AOD, provision of a new internal quarry access ramp. All site screening and landscaping works with restoration to a combination of agricultural use and nature conservation areas and the proposed development application area is c. 43 hectares within an overall land interest area of c. 60.7 hectares and all for a period of 40 years. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206330
31 Jan 2018Conditional
construction of a new 2,357sqm building for the storage and mixing with lime of organic bio-solids and all associated site works. This activity will be applied for with a Waste Facility Permit Application, under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 - as amended.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186022
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tyfarnham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Tyfarnham · Tigh Farannáin
- Area
- 1,269,712 m² (126.97 ha, 313.75 acres)
- Placenames
- Tyfarnham on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, 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.