Kilmacuagh (Mechum)

181 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacuagh (Mechum), from 9 m² to 37,767 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 168 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.2Retail Warehousing (Retail warehouse)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

  development consisting of proposals to retain the existing use of Willow Park Community House as a community centre and construct new single-storey extensions to either end of the existing building; Construct a new canopy along the length of the building; Alter the existing building and carry out associated site works. The site works will comprise new fencing, drainage, hard & soft landscaping, relocation of existing sheds and works to widen the existing site entrance. The proposed works will be carried out in two phases. Phase 1 will comprise an extension to Room no.1, alterations to the existing building, a new canopy and associated site works. Phase 2 will comprise an extension to Room no.2, associated canopy, relocation of existing sheds and associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560100

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a ground floor extension to the rear of their existing house. The extension will include a new bedroom and disabled accessed bathroom. The application will also include and all other minor site-works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560047

• 26 Apr 2023Conditional

  proposed Garage will be 6.6m wide and 6.1m deep with a ridge height of 2.989m high. Garden width is 9m wide which allows a 1.2m distance from boundaries all around. The garage is build with 300mm cavity wall with 1 roller door to front at 1.5m wide. there will be 2 x windows, 1 each side to front of garage 1.2m wide with precast window cills. The walls will be nap plaster finish with reveals to windows. The roof will be a cut roof with Blue/ Blue black slate finish. Foundations are 900 x 300 reinforced concrete with A393 Mesh. Footpaths 1.2 wide all around with brush finish. Roof will be insulated with 150mm to ceiling joint's with floor insulated with 100mm rigid insulation. Garage front wall will be 10m from back of existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360101

• 10 Oct 2022Refused

  new two storey , two bedroom residential contemporary mews dwelling on an infill site, together with a new site entrance from Meadowbrook and connections to the existing site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22489

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct an extension to the side & rear of existing dwelling house with new pitched roof to the west elevation and to construct a two storey dwelling which will be attached to NO 11 Norwood ~Court with separate entrance and all associated site works at 11 Norwood court, Meadowbrook, Athlone, Co Westmeath

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187091

• 22 Mar 2018N/a

  Planning Permission to construct an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house with new pitched roof to the west elevation and to form a new dwelling attached to the east facing elevation to existing dwelling house at ground and first floor level to form semi-detached dwelling house with separate entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 187054

• 29 Jan 2018N/a

  Permission to (1) Demolish existing single store extension to side of dwelling house and (2) Build new two storey extension to side of dwelling house including modifications to existing dwelling house

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 187020

• 20 Nov 2017N/a

  To construct a single storey extension onto the side of my existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177207

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  An extension to the first floor of existing dwelling. The application will also include all associated ground works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177064

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 Kilmacuagh (Mechum).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmacuagh (Mechum).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmacuagh (Mechum).

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Kilmacuagh (Mechum), about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1640 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Kilmacuagh (Mechum) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilmacuagh (Mechum) · Cill Mhic Dhuach

Area

226,025 m² (22.6 ha, 55.85 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Brawny

Electoral division

Athlone East Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

8,020 people lived in 2,747 households in the Athlone East Rural electoral division. 56% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnahinly, Bunnavally, Derries, Garrycastle, Kilmacuagh (Castlemaine), Kilmacuagh (Cooke)

Placenames

Kilmacuagh (Mechum) on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.