Tyfarnham

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.

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.

• 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tyfarnham.

Recorded monuments

• WM012-001 Standing stone (present location)
  Description

  Situated on grassland. Ringfort (WM012-002----) 40m to E, chapel (WM012-003----) 190m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘standing stone’. A tall roughly dressed limestone pillar (H 1.6m; Dims. 0.25m x 0.21m) stands at the end of a field fence running NE-SW, a short distance from where it is marked on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small round depression in one face suggests that it was used as a gate post. Standing stone was possibly moved from location marked on 1837 map to present location in modern times. Cross-referenced with WM012-210----. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on SSE facing slope of rising ground in grassland. Standing stone (WM012-001----) 40m to E. Chapel (WM012-003----) 180m to S. Bog 350m to W. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 39m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. It is best preserved from W-N, fragmentary elsewhere and reduced to a scarp from E-S-SW. It is intersected by a field fence running NW-SE from N-NE. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE. A low bank in the SW quadrant extending from the inside of the bank towards the interior is of unknown function. This monument is situated at the N side of a complex of earthworks which extend over an area of approx. 7 hectares. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-003 Church
  Description

  Medieval church of Tyfarnham depicted as an upstanding building and annotated as a 'Chapel' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a churchyard (WM012-003001-). Depicted as 'Chapel site of' on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Chapel building levelled between these two dates. Only the grass covered wall footings of this chapel building are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The levelled chapel or church stands in a field covered with numerous earthworks which may represent a clustered settlement (WM012-003002-). Immediately S of the chapel there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parishes. The chapel is depicted as a church on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes where it is depicted standing beside a building, possibly the 'Halll' (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map of Tyfarnham recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-003001 Churchyard
  Description

  Depicted as an upstanding building and annotated as a 'Chapel' (WM012-003----) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a roughly D-shaped churchyard. Only the grass covered wall footings of this church building and cropmark of the churchyard enclosure are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The levelled chapel stands in a field covered with numerous earthworks which may represent a clustered settlement. Immediately S of the church there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes. The chapel is depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parish where it is depicted standing beside a building (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish of Tyfarnan recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-003002 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  A church (WM012-003----) and a medieval hall or building (WM012-023----) are depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) Tyfarnham church is annotated as a 'Chapel' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing in the W quadrant of a churchyard (WM012-003001-). The levelled chapel stands in a field covered with numerous rectilinear earthworks clustered to the NE and which are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The earthworks appear to form a series of small rectangular enclosures and may represent a clustered settlement contemporaneous with the church and hall. In the NE corner of this field are the remains of a square-shaped enclosure . Immediately S of the chapel there is a curving linear earthwork which possibly represents the remains of a sunken way or roadway. Cultivation ridges running roughly E-W and N-S are also visible on the aerial photographs. A rectangular-shaped earthwork (WM012-023----) located 155m to the S may represent the remains of the 'Hall' depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnham parishes. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2017

• WM012-023 Building
  Description

  Situated on the S face of a slight ridge, overlooked by higher ground to the N, with poorly drained lands to the W. Stream running roughly N-S lies 40m to E. Tyfarnham church site (WM012-003----) and surrounding earthworks lie 150m to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small rectilinear-shaped earthwork, and annotated as a ‘fort’. A rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 12m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) enclosed by a slight earth and stone bank, and a narrow shallow fosse, with entrance gap (Wth 0.9m) at E. This earthwork appears to be located in the N quadrant of a large sub-triangular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. It is not clear if this large sub-triangular-shaped earthwork is a pre-1700 archaeological monument or the remains of post-1700 land reclamation works. Tyfarnham church is depicted on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Leny and Tyfarnan parish where it is depicted standing beside a building (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey parish of Tyfarnan recorded that in this parish are 'Scituate the Hall & Church of Tyfarnan' (ibid.) This rectangular-shaped earthwork may represent the levelled remains of the 'Hall'. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in low lying grass-land, surrounded by hills. Depicted on the 1837 O.S. Fair Plan map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork and annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been almost completely quarried away. All that remains is an L-shaped earthen platform (dims. 20m E-W; 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with traces of a slight external fosse (Wth 4.4m; D 0.45m) visible at W only. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2017

• WM012-025 Earthwork
  Description

  There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. In poorly drained grassland. No surface remains visible of any archaeological feature in area marked on the RMP map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

• WM012-036 Standing stone
  Description

  No paper file in National Monuments archive, site of possible standing stone now located in area occupied by modern quarry. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 February 2018

• WM012-210 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on grassland. Ringfort (WM012-002----) 220m to SE, chapel (WM012-003----) 420m to SSE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘standing stone’. A tall roughly dressed limestone pillar (WM012-001----) now stands at the end of a field fence running NE-SW, 220m from where it is marked on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small round depression in one face suggests that it was used as a gate post. Standing stone was possibly moved from original location marked on 1837 map to new location in modern times. Cross-referenced with WM012-001----. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tyfarnham.

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).

No address of the register names Tyfarnham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Tyfarnham · Tigh Farannáin

Area

1,269,712 m² (126.97 ha, 313.75 acres)

Civil parish

Tyfarnham, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Stonehall, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Culleenabohoge, Down, Galmoylestown Lower, Killintown, Knightswood, Larkinstown, Multyfarnham Or Fearbranagh

Placenames

Tyfarnham 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.