Athlone and Bigmeadow

316 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Athlone and Bigmeadow, from 2 m² to 38,564 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 186 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 99 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Sporting Recreational (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S4Community, Educational & Institutional (General public administration)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community, Educational & Institutional (Education)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Mar 2026Conditional

  development which consists of a CHANGE OF USE from a Beauty Salon with its rear garden to a Two Bedroom Apartment with rear garden

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 268

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission is being sought for a change of use. The change of use is from Commercial/Residential to Cultural Museum, the unit in question is listed on the Protected Structure's for Westmeath on the NIAH Register (Ref:15000324) The application will also include a small extension to the rear, restoration of existing shop fronts and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560437

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for changes to grant of previous planning ref 24/71, which include to retain revised ground floor plan and elevation changes and associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2527

• 23 May 2025N/a

  to retain revised layout and elevations changes to extension under construction at side of existing dwelling and all associated site services

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2520

• 4 Feb 2025Refused

  The development will consist of: • Permission for the removal of an existing vent stack which is a protected structure, reference 074 in the planning authority’s Record of Protected Structures • Permission for installation of a replacement vent stack and associated pipework and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560030

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of an extension to the front of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2475

• 1 Nov 2024Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to side of existing dwelling with two number carparking with access onto Parnell Square and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2471

• 26 Jun 2024Refused

  RETENTION of the change of use of two ground floor retail units to two single storey one bed apartments and all associated site works. This existing building is a Protected Structure (RPS No 37 & NIAH No 15000208)

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2444

• 6 Jun 2024N/a

  Change of use of two ground floor retail units to two single storey one bed apartments and all associated site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2439

• 1 May 2024N/a

  construction of an extension to the rear & front of existing dwelling house with new windows & double doors at gable end of existing dwelling at ground and first floor level and to amend location of site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2430

• 9 Apr 2024N/a

  construct an extension to the rear & front of the existing dwelling house with new windows & double doors at gable end of existing dwelling at ground and first floor level and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2422

• 10 Nov 2023N/a

  construction of an extension to the rear & front of existing dwelling house with new windows at gable end of existing dwelling at ground and first floor level and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 23145

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) demolition of an existing shop, shed and warehousing and for (2) the construction of 8 No. apartments consisting of 3 No. 1 bed units and 5 No. 2 bed units, ancillary bin and bicycle storage, carparking and landscaping, connection onto mains sewer and water services and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22459

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  I Luke O Donnell intend to apply for permission for development at this site 9 O Connell St , Athlone, Co Westmeath. A protected structure, NIAH survey Ref 15000164 in the national inventory of architectural heritage RPS N 31 in the Record of Protected Structures , Westmeath County Development Plan 2021- 2027. The development will consist of change of use from commercial to residential. The building is currently in the form of no. 2 self-contained flats at first floor level with a commercial unit at ground and basement level. The proposed development is seeking permission to provide a 4 bedroom single family dwelling with an overall floor area of 212 sqm. The proposed development also includes for all associated site development works above and below ground on a site area of 0.0237 ha. Works to the building include - 1) The removal of recent internal partitions and amendments to the original layout of the house at ground and first floor levels; 2) The removal of a no. 2 modern WC's on the first floor levels 3) The provision of a new kitchen services on the ground floor; 4) The provision of no. 2 new bathrooms and services at first floor; 5) The removal of PVC windows and reinstatement of no.13 Timber sash windows throughout the house; 6) the enlarging of 4 existing window opes to the rear façade to allow for no.3 sliding doors; 7) A lightweight steel trellis to the rear façade; 8) Partial demolition of recent single story extension to form external terrace and new timber pergola; 9) All associated ancillary and landscape works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22166

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  Development of new sewers which will consist of: A new 450mm diameter open cut combined sewer on Deerpark Road and Clonown Road constructed within a works construction area. A new combined tunnel sewer up to 1200mm diameter, through the Showgrounds from Deerpark Road to the west bank of the River Shannon constructed within a 10m wide works construction area. A new combined tunnel sewer (Lower Shannon Sewer Crossing), up to 1500mm diameter, that runs underneath the River Shannon to the east bank in Burgess Park at Golden Island constructed within a 10m wide works construction area. 1 No. Tunnel Shaft and associated temporary works construction compound in Burgess Park in Golden Island (Kilmaine) Townland. 3 No Tunnel Shafts and associated temporary works construction compounds west of the Shannon in Athlone Showgrounds and in Athlone & Bigmeadow Townland. 2 No. Tunnel Shafts and associated temporary works construction compounds on Deerpark Road in Athlone & Bigmeadow Townland and Doovogue Townland. Decommissioning and demolition of the existing West Side Pumping Station. Temporary construction access road along the sewer route in Athlone Showgrounds. Temporary construction access road through Burgess Park. Decommissioning and demolition of the existing siphon inlet chamber and storm overflow chamber. And all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22169

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  We, Irish Water, intend to apply for permission at this site for a tunnel sewer and associated shafts crossing under the River Shannon in Athlone Townland and Athlone and Bigmeadow Townland, Athlone Town Centre between The Quay Road on the western side of the river to The Strand Carpark south west of Strand St. on the eastern side of the river including works on The Quay Road and in the Strand Carpark. The development will consist of the construction of the following: A new combined sewer (Upper Shannon Crossing), up to 1500mm diameter, tunnelled underneath the River Shannon from The Quay Road to the Strand Carpark constructed within a 10m wide construction area. 1 No.tunnel shaft on The Quay Road and all associated site works constructed within a works construction area. 1 No.tunnel shaft in the Strand Carpark and all associated site works constructed within a works construction area. Temporary works compounds at each of the 2 No. tunnel shafts. Temporary removal and reinstatement of two cast iron bollards that are listed as Protected Structures, RPS Ref No 075 and NIAH Ref. No. 15000414 along the Quay Road. Temporary carparking and occasional storage for existing commercial use located adjacent to the proposed temporary works construction compound on The Quay Road. Temporary works area up to 10m wide on a floating pontoon located on the River Shannon adjacent to the quay wall on The Quay Road. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22170

• 11 Mar 2022N/a

  A Protected Structure: The development will consist of the change of use from commercial to residential. The building is currently in the form of no. 2 self-contained flats at first floor level with a commercial unit at ground and basement level. The proposed development is seeking permission to provide for a 4 bedroom, single family dwelling with an overall floor area of 212sqm. The proposed development also includes for all associated site development works above and below ground on a site area of 0.0237 ha. Works to the building include:- 1) The removal of recent internal partitions and amendments to the original layout of the house at ground and first floor levels; 2) The removal of no. 2 modern WCs on the first floor levels 3) The provision of new kitchen services on the ground floor; 4) The provision of no. 2 new bathrooms and services at first floor; 5) The removal of PVC windows and reinstatement of no. 13 Timber sash windows throughout the house. 6) The enlarging of 4 existing window opes to the rear façade to allow for no. 3 sliding doors 7) A lightweight steel trellis to the rear façade. 8) Partial demolition of recent single storey extension to form external terrace with new timber pergola. 9) All associated ancillary and landscape works necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22105

• 28 Oct 2021N/a

  EXTENSION of DURATION of planning application 07/3078 Modifications to design of block D that forms part of previously approved planning permission ref: 03/4247 - modifications include replacing the 6 no. 4 bed townhouses with 19 apartments (5 No 1 bed and 14 no 2 bed) in 3-4 storey block. Modifications to internal site layout, car parking, bin stores and increase in amount of green open space to complete overall development of 87 apartments at

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 21575

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  Demolition of derelict two-storey public house and associated ancillary spaces and the construction of a five-storey mixed use scheme arranged over two blocks. The proposal will consist of 29 residential apartments, one retail unit, an amenity space, semi-basement carpark, communal open space and associated ancillary spaces

  Permission, 21 homes · Westmeath County Council, 21446

• 3 Dec 2020Refused

  Change of use from existing gift shop to a pizzeria take away outlet. Permission is also sought for associated new signage and alterations to existing elevations and all associated internal and external works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207192

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  Installation of a 1.42m x 0.51m x 1.806m (LxWxH) above ground enclosure, to house a new natural gas District Regulating Installation, and a 3m high "lamp post" style relief vent stack servicing the new installation with all ancillary services and associated site works to replace the existing below ground natural gas regulating installation

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207149

• 7 Sept 2020Conditional

  Planning permission to construct an extension to the rear and front of existing dwelling house with change to internal layout and all associated works at 13 College Park, Athlone, Co Westmeath

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207131

• 24 Apr 2020Conditional

  Retention of the removal of the Harry Clark Studios stained glass from the Old House Building in the former school, St Aloysius College, Athlone, Co Westmeath, which is a protected structure, RPS No.035. (It is proposed to install it into the new school building, which is under construction at Crannagh, Summerhill, Athlone, Co Roscommon. The college was formerly known as St Joseph;s College which has amalgamated with St Aloysius College and is now known as Coláiste Chairian)

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 207065

• 16 Apr 2020Refused

  Change of use of existing retail unit 11 and 12 at street level granted under planning reference 96/813476 to two number residential one bed apartments. Alterations to front façade. New single entrance door and two new windows replacing existing doors to the rear of proposed apartments.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207060

• 16 Mar 2020N/a

  Retention permission to regularise and retain works carried out at the premises to include changes to ground floor plan. Also permission to develop the ground floor retail as café-takeaway including change of shop front, external signage, and all associated site works. The development will consist of work to a Protected Structure, Record of Protected Structures, Athlone Town Development Plan 2014-2020, Reference no.060

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207041

The 25 most recent of 51 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• WM029-042002 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  National Monument No. 520. Athlone Castle was built as a Royal Castle in 1210 to control an important fording point over the River Shannon which may have had a pre-Norman fortification (WM029-042098-) at this location. The Anglo-Norman stone castle was built on lands originally granted in 1200 to Geoffrey de Constentin who was then granted other lands in Connacht due to the construction of Athlone Castle which became the demesne lands of King John. The king of England then ordered Geoffrey de Constentin to maintain and keep possession of the castle on behalf of the king. In the year 1200 as part of the Anglo-Norman settlement of Connacht, King John of England granted Geoffrey de Costentin, ‘a cantred in Connaught called Tirieghrachbothe’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 22). The castle of Athlone and the western side of Athlone town were located on these lands called ‘Tirieghrachtbothe’. In 1214 shortly after the construction of the Royal Castle of Athlone, King John allowed Geoffrey de Constentin to exchange the lands containing Athlone Castle for the cantred of Trithweth also located in Connacht (Cal. doc. Ire., 92). The lands of Trithweth were described as being located ‘more remote from the castle, and nearer to the Irish’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 257). In this year following a petition submitted by Geoffrey to the Archbishop of Dublin, King John commanded the ‘exchange for the cantred in which the Castle of Athlone is situated, the Archbishop cause Godfrey [Geoffrey] to have another cantred of equal value in the marches’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 81). In 1215, King John granted a mandate to ‘Godfrey [Geoffrey] de Constentin to safely keep the castle of Aslon [Athlone], as he previously kept it’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 95). In 1220 Geoffrey de Constentin was appointed to maintain ‘the custody of the K.’s land and castles in that country, which custody shall be surveyed by counsel of the Archbishop of Dublin, Thomas Fitz Adam, and Richard de Burgh’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 144). The present structure traces its foundation to John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich and Justiciar of Ireland, who commenced construction of Athlone castle in 1210 (ALC; Ann. Clon. sub 1208-9). In this year King John of England, ordered the Bishop to erect three castles in the province of Connacht. The Annals of Loch Cé recorded in the year 1210 that the Bishop of Norwich came along with the forces of Meath and Leinster to Athlone where a ‘bridge (WM029-042004-) was constructed by him across Ath-Luain, and a castle instead of O’Conchobhair’s [O’Conor’s] castle (WM029-042098-)’ (ALC). The following year in 1211 a stone tower (possibly the keep or donjon) collapsed killing Richard de Tuite and eight others (Gilbert 1884, ii, 232, 279) and Orpen (1907, 262-3) has suggested that this disaster might have resulted from the construction of a Keep on top of a motte (WM029-042099-) which had not settled sufficiently to hold the weight. This event was recorded on the Annals of Clonmacnoise in the entry for the year 1210 which stated that the English Bishop who ‘was Deputy, and Richard Tuite founded a stone castle in Athlone, wherein there was a tower of stone built, which soon after fell & killed the said Richard Tuite with eight Englishmen more’ (Ann. Clon.). The stone castle of Athlone was built on monastic lands belonging to the priory (WM029-042003-) of Saints Peter and Paul situated to the south. In 1213 the King of England commanded ‘Henry Archbishop of Dublin to cause the monks of Athlone to have the tenth part of the expenses of the castle in that town, in exchange for their land in which the castle is situated, as the Bishop of Norwich undertook when fortifying the castle’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 80). In 1216, King John commanded the Justiciar of Ireland to exchange with the ‘Prior of Athlone, for the 4 cantreds in the fee of Logseuethy [Lough Sewdy] assigned to the Prior by John Bishop of Norwich in compensation for the site of the K.’s castle of Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 106-07). The King also commanded the Justiciar to ‘cause competent satisfaction to be given to the Prior touching an exchange for his meadow, his fisheries of 12 marks, and the tithes of the castle’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 107). In 1235 the King of England discovered by inquisition that the ‘monks of Adlon [Athlone] have been wont to receive at the Exchequer, Dublin, an annuity of 10 marks of the vill (WM029-042----), castle, mill (WM029-042056-), and fishery (WM029-042081-) towards Connaught, which John Bishop of Norwich, when [justiciary], constructed in the their land, the K. commands the monks to have this annuity’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 340-1). Work on the castle is sporadically recorded during the thirteenth century, in 1232-4 (35th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Records Ireland, 37) and 1251 when the King ordered to ‘employ 80 marks of the K.’s money in aid of the inclosure (WM029-042020-) of the K.’s vills of Adlon [Athlone] and Rendun [Rindown, Co. Roscommon], and repair of their castles (Cal. doc. Ire., 469). In 1270-72 the Exchequer paid 5 marks in wages to ‘Nicholas of Gloucester, carpenter of the castle of Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 150). In 1273-4, the justiciar, Geoffrey de Geneville, spent over £3,500 on various projects including ‘repairs of the castle and houses of Athlone’ (36th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Records Ireland, 40). In 1276-7 Robert d'Ufford, the succeeding justiciar, spent £2,136 on fortifications and buildings at the castles of Rindown (RO046-004002-), Co. Roscommon and Athlone (36th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Records Ireland, 35; Cal. doc. Ire., 267) and a further £3,200 in 1278-9 on work at Roscommon (RO039-043001-), Rindown (RO046-004002-) and Athlone castles (36 Rep Deputy Keeper Public Records Ireland, 48). In 1277-78 Robert de Ufford spent money on ‘repairing houses of the castle of Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 267). In 1281 the Exchequer made a payment to Thomas de Isham ‘for works of the castles of Roscommon, Raundun [Rindown, RO046-004002-] and Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 406). In 1284 the Exchequer made a payment of £11 13s 4d. to William ‘the carpenter, spent in works of the castle of Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 541). In 1290 the chief justiciary of Ireland went to ‘the castle of Athlone, and remaining there to treat with the Irish of those parts, to inspect the defects of the works of the castle and bridge (WM029-042004-)’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 326). Between 1286 and 1290 the Exchequer made a payment to ‘Geoffrey Brun, clerk, of £300, to be spent on fortifications of the castles of Roscommon (RO039-043001-), Randown (RO046-004002-), and Athlone, in works of those castles’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 370). It is likely that much of the surviving medieval fabric of the castle, particularly the river wall with its three-quarter-round towers at each angle dates to this period (Orpen 1907, 271; Claffey 1970-1, 57; Leask 1951, 42). Parts of the castle had fallen into neglect by 1305 and repairs were carried out in 1306 by Richard de Exeter, constable of Roscommon castle (38th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Records Ireland, 103). The Annals of St. Mary's, Dublin, note the burning of the castle and town by Ruaidri O Conchobhar in 1315 but Orpen (1907, 272), using the Irish annals, has suggested that the castle was not captured at this time. Little is known of the castle in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries although it is clear that it was frequently in Irish hands until recovered by the Crown in 1537. In this year it was recorded that the ‘castle of Athlone, standing upon a passage betwixt Connaught and these parts, is recovered, which has long been usurped by the Irish’ (Gardiner 1891, 47-85). Thereafter the castle remained in English hands serving as the residence of the Presidents of Connacht after 1569 (Murtagh 1980, 81). In 1547, the Annals recorded that the ‘castle of Athlone was repaired by the English, namely, by William Brabazon, the King's Treasurer in Ireland, and the English and Irish of Meath, in despite of O'Kel

• WM029-042003 Religious house - Cluniac monks
  Description

  The priory of Athlone appears to have been known by several names including the priory of Saints Peter and Paul, the monastery de Innocentia and the priory of St. Peter and Benedict. This priory was the only Cluniac house in Ireland which according to tradition was founded by Tulough O’Conor, King of Connacht in 1150 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 110). The priory was referred to as the monastery ‘de Innocentia’ in 1280 (Cal. doc. Ire., 351) and again in 1391 when a letter was sent to the ‘prior of the monastery of St. Peter, Athlone (de Innocentia)’ (Cal. papal letters 1362-1404, 417). The priory was also known as the monastery of St. Peter and Benedict as recorded by Sir James Ware in 1626 (Gilbert 2012, civ-cv). Some discussion surrounds the date of its foundation. In the late 17th century Alemand recorded that this abbey was founded in 1150 and was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Benedict on the basis of the writings of the monastic historian Gaspar Jongelin (Stevens and Moll 1722, 196). Gaspar Jongelin based his dating on the writings of Sir James Ware who in 1626 compiled a table of the foundation dates of the Cistercian monasteries in Ireland (Gilbert 2012, civ-cv). Sir James Ware recorded in his table of Cistercian foundation dates, that the abbey of Athlone was founded in 1150 (ibid., 220). There is no mention in either source that this monastery was founded under the patronage of Turlough O’Conor, king of Connacht. Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 110) question the reliability of the tradition that it was founded c.1150 by Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair [Turlough O’Conor], king of Connacht, pointing to the confusion of Athlone with the Cistercian monastery of “Benedictio Dei” [God’s Blessing] at Kilbeggan, which was founded in 1150. Conlan (1980, 74-5) argues the view that it was founded by Toirrdelbach [Turlough] c.1150 on the basis that a Cluniac foundation is unlikely to date any later because the Cluniac Order was rapidly eclipsed in Ireland by the Cistercians after that date. The abbey was clearly in existence before the building of Athlone Castle (WM029-042002-) in 1210 because the priory received compensation in the year 1214 for the land on which the castle was built. In this year, King John commanded Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin, to pay compensation to the ‘monks of Athlone’ as their lands had been taken for the construction of Athlone Castle. In this year the crown papers recorded that the monks of Athlone were to ‘have the tenth part of the expenses of the castle in that town, in exchange for their land in which the castle is situated, as the Bishop of Norwich [John de Grey] undertook when fortifying that castle’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 80). In 1235, crown documents recorded that ‘the monks of Adlon [Athlone] have been wont to receive at the Exchequer, Dublin, an annuity of 10 marks for the vill (WM029-042----), castle (WM029-042002-), mill (WM029-042056-) and fishery (WM029-042081-) towards Connaught, which John [de Grey] Bishop of Norwich, when [justiciary], constructed in their land, the K. commands the justiciary to cause the monks to have this annuity’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 341). In the year 1280 there is a reference in crown papers to ‘Brother Gilbert, a monk de Innocentia (St. Peters) near Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 351). In 1284 King Edward I, commanded the justiciary of Ireland ‘not to injure the Prior and convent of St. Peter of Athlone regarding the pool which they were wont anciently to have. The justiciary had constructed 2 mills (WM029-042056-) upon the pool for the K.’s use, and the prior and convent had consequently taken nothing in the pool’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 564). In 1290 the treasurer of Ireland paid ‘Gilbert, monk of Athlone, 40s. of silver for the losses which the monks had sustained for 3 years in their pools of Athlone by the construction of the K.’s mills (WM029-042056-) there’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 325). In 1290 a second payment was made to ‘Gilbert, monk of Athlone, for 10 marks of the K.’s yearly alms granted to the Prior and convent of St. Peter of Athlone’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 325). In 1362 William O’Tumulty was elected prior, apparently the first native Irishman to obtain the position (Grattan-Flood 1913, 54) but it is noteworthy that every subsequent prior seems to have been of Irish blood (Conlan 1980, 77-80). In 1428 a papal indulgence was granted to ‘penitents who on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul [June 29], from the first to the second vespers, visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the church of the Benedictine monastery of SS. Peter and Paul de Innocentia near Atholoyn [Athlone], in the diocese of Elphin, which is threatened with ruin on account of the wars which have afflicted those parts’ (Cal. papal letters 1427-47, 22). There is no formal record of the dissolution of the priory but Conlan (1980, 80) feels it was probably suppressed by Sir William Brabazon, vice-treasurer of Ireland and constable of Athlone Castle after 1547 (Bradley et. al. 1985, 47). The priory was joined to the castle as an estate and it was generally held by the vice-treasurers of Ireland until 1569 when it was assigned to the presidents of Connacht (Murtagh 1994, 91). Between 1569-70 the priory church was converted into a government storehouse and the conventual buildings of the priory were converted into a dwelling house for Sir Edward Fytton, President of Connacht (Grattan-Flood 1913, 56). In 1572, when Athlone was burned by James FitzMaurice FitzGerald and the sons of the Earl of Clanricard, the priory church was in use as a store. In 1572 the Lord President of Connacht wrote to the Lord Deputy, stating that ‘the rebels, with Scots, have burnt Athlone wholly to the ground. The steeple of the Abbey, where the store is, was well defended’ (Cal. S. P. Ire. 1509-73, 477). John Crofton also wrote in the same year to the Lord Deputy stating that the rebels and Scots have burnt Athlone, and the body of the church, where he had his malt, biscuit, and beer, and all his brewing and baking vessels which are consumed’ (Cal. S. P. Ire. 1509-73, 477). In 1584 the Crown granted a 21 year lease to George Alexander of the ‘site of the priory of St. Benedict of Cistercian monks of Athlone, co. Roscommon, the demesne lands, a mill in the tenure of O’Fallon, lands in Clonnalve, 7 weirs in the river Shennen, with the tithes thereof, the tithes of the rectory of Athlone, extending to Athlone and Duffer, the tithes of the rectories of Dromyne, Kiltome, Kinerboy and Kilmyan, Taghoe alias S. John Baptist, Aleake, Teaghfratrane, Teaghane Dyserte, Camnaghe, Ratharrowe, Assafraghe, Kilsalen, Kyllaghamba, and Kilcrowlen, co. Roscommon, and all other possessions of the priory. To hold for 21 years. Rent, £60 1s 9d.’ (Nicholls 1994, vol. II, 611). In 1606-07 a survey of the Crown lands and tithes which were leased by the King to people in Ireland, included a lease between the King and George Alexander of the ‘Cistercian monastery of St. Benedict, of Athlone’ (Cal. S. P. Ire., 69). This presumably is to be equated with the Cluniac house because there is no evidence for a Cistercian monastery in Athlone and the reference to St Benedict explained on the basis that the Cluniac monks were Benedictines (Bradley et. al. 1985, 48). In 1670s the priory buildings and its lands passed into the ownership of Richard Jones, first earl of Ranelagh (Conlan 1980, 82). In 1759 the Ranelagh estate passed into the ownership of the Incorporated Society for the promotion of Protestant Schools in Ireland (ibid.). A church building depicted on the site of the priory on the first edition OS 6-inch map was built in 1804 (Murtagh 1994, 10). This church was demolished in the mid 19th century and replaced by a coach factory in 1856 that was then converted into a saw mills (ibid., 12). The saw mills was demolished and replaced by St. Peter and Paul’s national school built in 1934 which now stands on the site of the Cluniac priory that is depicted

• WM029-042017 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Athlone Museum. Rectangular sandstone plaque. Two corners are broken but the achievement of arms in high relief is complete. The mantling is elaborate with helm and very tall feathered cap of maintenance. The shield has a cross with a lion rampant in the first quarter and a hand in the second. Incised motto partly damaged …VENI REDEO. Lightly incised inscription on the upper corners: BUILT BY THE RIGHT WORSH…/ SIR THOMAS BOVRKE KNIGHT. 1639. Mr. Thomas Walker informed us that this plaque was removed from the bridge by his father. Dims. H 96cm, W 73cm, D 18cm (Bradley et. al. 1985, 34). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042038 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  Armorial plaque from the house of John Waple dating from 1621. Currently on display in Athlone Castle Museum. Rectangular block of limestone originally from Church Street. Carved in false relief with a heater shaped shield and an inscription in Roman lettering. The shield has two bends and three cross crosslets per fess. The date 1621 is incised below. Inscription: 'ERECTED BY JOHN/ WAPLE MARCHANT'. Dims. H 0.41m, Wth 0.37m, T 0.12m (Bradley et. al. 1985, 28). According to the information panel in the Athlone Castle Museum the armorial plaque was recovered from an external wall in Custume Place, which may have been the location of the merchants premises. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042039 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  Unidentified Heraldic Plaque. Seventeenth century. Currently on display in Athlone Castle Museum. Rectangular limestone plaque with heater-shaped shield and mantling similar to WM029-047----. Removed from Hogan's on the S side of Church Street. Engrailed shield with a bend sinister and a lion rampart overall. The family have not been identified but it could be either Gray, Lloyd, Price or Grace. Dims. H 0.5m, Wth 0.46m, T 0.16m (Bradley et. al. 1985, 28). According to the information panel in the museum this armorial plaque was erected by a member of the Jones family in the 17th century. The plaque was recovered from the external wall of premises in Church Street which was the residence of the Jones family. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042040 Armorial plaque (present location)
  Description

  Amorial plaque that is now on display in Athlone Castle Museum may be the Dillon memorial recorded in the Urban Survey of Athlone (Bradely et. al. 1982, 28). According to Bradley a stone mural tablet carrying the Dillon arms is mentioned in the Burgess Papers (Bradley et. al. 1985, 28; English 1974-5, 256). Partially damaged armorial plaque decorated with a shield and lion rampant with the letter D on right side of shield and the letters 620 beneath the shield with partial inscription carved in relief. According to the information panel in the museum this plaque dated 1620, bears a coat of arms possibly belonging to the Jones family and may have been inserted into the external wall of a premises belonging to this family in the town of Athlone. The partial Latin inscription has been interpreted as meaning MAKE ME JOYFUL, O LORD. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042043 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  Early Christian cross-inscribed slab (dims. Dims. H 0.82m, Wth 0.59m, T 0.13m) discovered in 1978, and one of four cross-slabs (WM029-042044-;045-;047-) found in the graveyard (WM029-042092-) of the Franciscan friary (WM029-042001-) (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 7-8). Now on display in Athlone Castle Museum. The cross-slab contains an inscription to Ailill Ua Dunchatho, King of Connacht who died in 764 AD (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 7). Roughly rectangular sandstone slab missing a small section of one corner. The decoration consists of an almost equal-armed ringed cross within a rectangular frame. The centre of the cross consists of a square enclosing a circle; the terminals are also square and bear foliage decoration. The arms of the cross have a fret pattern of interlocking T type while the frame consists of a broad band of continuous fret pattern of the interlocking L type. Incised inscription above the panel: AILILL AUE DUNCHATHO (Bradley et. al. 1985, 45-6). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042044 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  Early Christian cross-slab (dims. H 0.76m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.08m) discovered in 1974, one of four cross-slabs (WM029-042043-;045-;047-) found in the graveyard (WM029-042092-) of the Franciscan friary (WM029-042001-) (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 5-6). Now on display in Athlone Castle Museum. Damaged sandstone slab decorated with an incised three-line Latin cross with a central circular expansion, containing a tetraskelion, and semi-circular terminals ornamented with worn key patterns. The cross is outlined by a two-line border with knots at the external angles. Incised inscription flanking the stem reads: OR DO CONLOC DO CHADAL (Bradley et. al. 1985, 46; Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 5-7). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042045 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  Early Christian cross-slab (dims. H 0.37m, Wth 0.72m, T 0.1m) discovered in 1979, one of four cross-slabs (WM029-042043-;044-;045-) originally found in the graveyard (WM029-042092-) of the Franciscan friary (WM029-042001-) (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 9). Now on display in Athlone Castle Museum. Sandstone cross-inscribed slab that is broken into two parts. The upper half survives in Athlone and the lower left corner is in the National Museum of Ireland. Highly decorated ringed cross in false relief. The cross has a square panel at the centre filled with interlace and rectangular terminals at the end of lozenge-shaped arms. The arms and terminals are also decorated with interlace and spiral motifs. The ring is ornamented with pelta designs. Outside the ring are the winged lion of St. Mark and the winged calf of St. Luke each of which hold a book. Above the symbols of the evangelists are the pocked letters OR DO. The fragment in the National Museum of Ireland depicts a winged figure, presumably St. Matthew, and bears the incised letters MUIR M below (Bradley et. al. 1985, 46; Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 9). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042052 Stone head (present location)
  Description

  On display in Athlone Castle Museum. Keystone of an archway into which has been set the medieval head of a tonsured cleric possibly of granite, with the words "St. Peter's Port" and initials 'I.B'. 'I.B' refers to a man named Booth, a property owner otherwise known as 'Copper Fisted Jack' who levied a toll on all produce brought through St. Peter's Port. (See also WM029-042088-). Head (dims. H 0.19m; Wth 0.13m; T 0.33m) has a long pointed face with damaged chin. Unknown date (Bradley et. al. 1985, 48). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042053 Sheela-na-gig (present location)
  Description

  On display in Athlone Castle Museum. Abraded sandstone squatting figure (dims. H 0.4m; Wth 0.21m; Wth 0.21m; D 0.2m). The hands are clasped around the legs which are drawn up under the chin and the vulva or anus is openly displayed. The face has protruding lips and slanting eyes. According to the information panel in the museum this sheela-na-gig originally came from the keystone of the archway belonging to the water gate known as St. Peter's Port which was part of the Cluniac priory dedicated to SS. Pater and Paul (WM029-042003-/ WM029-042091-) (Bradley et. al. 1985, 48-9; Weir 1980, 64). Described by Freitag as a ‘sculptured almost in the round. Strong face with pursed lips, and a striated pattern incised across left cheek. With arms embracing tightly flexed knees. Big V-shaped vulva’ (Freitag 2004, 122). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• WM029-042059 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  Fragment of a possible 17th century wayside cross (dims. H 0.43m; Wth 0.42m; D 0.17m) located outside Athlone Castle Museum. Decorated in low false relief with quarter of a ringed cross having incised crosses on the stem. Inscribed with INRI on the ring and the date 16.. is in one corner. Exact provenance unknown (Bradley et. al. 1985, 50). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 24 June 2010

• WM029-042060 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The castle known as Cox's Castle (Murtagh 1994, 10) is depicted on Thomas Sherrard's map of Athlone dating from 1784 where it is shown located on the corner of St. George's Lane now Excise St. (RCB Ms. 151; Murtagh 1994, Map 7(a) and 7 (b)). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 06 December 2013

• WM029-042082 Memorial stone
  Description

  Rectangular memorial stone. Located just outside the entrance to Athlone Castle Museum, lying against the wall. There appears to be an inscription on it but it is impossible to decipher. Appears to be pre-1700 but exact date uncertain. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042083 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Four architectural fragments, including a male and female stone head, located in the Athlone Castle Museum (one of the pieces is located just outside the entrance to the museum beside a milestone). Exact date or provenance unknown. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042085 Stone head
  Description

  Currently in Athlone Museum. Carved stone head of uncertain date discovered at Hodson Bay. Slight damage to the nose. On loan from the Lenihan family, Athlone. Original location - Co. Roscommon. See RO049-011---- for more information. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042086 Architectural feature
  Description

  On the premises of Sean's Bar (WM029-042086-), 13 Main Street, is a late medieval stone built fireplace from a house on an island in Lough Ree (Bradley et. al. 1985, 28). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042087 Inn
  Description

  'Sean's Bar' was originally a two storey high building with thick walls, an additional third storey in brick was added later. Preserved on the premises is a section of wattle partition removed from a first floor wall. This could be of seventeenth century date but it is not securely dated (Bradley et. al. 1985, 28). Claims to have a documented history of all its innkeepers since 1600. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM029-042088 Inscribed stone (present location)
  Description

  On display in Athlone Castle Museum. One of two stones (WM029-042089-) (dims. H 0.35m, Wth 0.46m, D 0.15m) removed from gateway to St. Peter's Port (see also WM029-042089-). The inscription reads 'WILL O' WISP AND JACK THE PRINTER'. Will O' Wisp and Jack the Printer refer to two prominent men with whom a man named Booth was in dispute. They were William Sproule, a Quaker merchant, and John Potts, a printer and owner of Saunders' newspaper. Booth owned the property and was otherwise known as 'Copper Fisted Jack', who levied a toll on all produce brought through the port. Stones probably date from the 18th century. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2013

• WM029-042089 Inscribed stone
  Description

  On display in Athlone Castle Museum. Two arch stones (dims. H 0.32m, Wth 0.46m, D 0.13m) removed from the gateway to St. Peter's Port (see also WM029-042088-) which was the water gate to the south harbour of the west town of Athlone. The inscription reads 'O may not Satan's Agents enter' and 'Wil o'Wisp & Jack the Printer'. According to the information panel in the museum, a local man named booth was responsible for the inscription, which arose from a property dispute he had in Athlone with William Sproule, a local merchant, and John Potts, a colourful newspaper proprietor, who died in 1795. Probably dates from the 18th century. Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2013

• WM029-042091 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  On display in Athlone Castle Museum (WM029-042053-). Figure formerly placed above gateway of laundry belonging to the Convent at St Peter's Port (Guest 1936, 113; McMahon and Roberts 2001, 113). Abraded sandstone squatting figure. The hands are clasped around the legs which are drawn up under the chin and the vulva or anus is openly displayed. The face has protruding lips and slanting eyes. Dims. H 40cm, W 21cm, D 20cm. Originally from St. Peter's Abbey (WM029-042003-/ WM029-042091) (Bradley et. al. 1985, 48-9). Described by Freitag as a ‘sculptured almost in the round. Strong face with pursed lips, and a striated pattern incised across left cheek. With arms embracing tightly flexed knees. Big V-shaped vulva’ (Freitag 2004, 122). Compiled by: Rachel Barrett and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 05 June 2012

• WM029-042099 Castle - motte
  Description

  The Kingdom of Míde [Meath] was granted to Hugh de Lacy in 1172 (Mills and McEnery 1916, 177) and the process of sub-infeudation and settlement began soon afterwards but it is unlikely that any effective inroads were made as far west as Athlone for some time. The original Anglo-Norman grantee of Athlone was Geoffrey de Costentin who was granted a cantred in Connacht adjoining Athlone in 1200 (Cal. doc. Ire., no. 137; Orpen 1907, 259; Claffey 1970-1, 55). In this year, King John of England granted Geoffrey de Costentin, ‘a cantred in Connaught called Tirieghrachbothe’ (Cal. doc. Ire., 22). If a motte castle had been constructed in Athlone then Geoffrey would have been responsible for the construction of this earth and timber castle (WM020-042098-) between the years 1191 and 1199 (Orpen 1911-20, II, 129; Graham 1980, 53; Bradley et. al. 1985, 35). In 1199 the annals recorded that a 'depredation was comitted on the Foreigners by Cathal Crobhderg, who burned the bódhún [bawn] of Ath [Athlone], and killed many persons; and they carried with them many cows to their homes' (ALC). The use of the word bódhún [Cow fort] anglicised as bawn to describe an Anglo-Norman fortification suggests that the fortification may have been a ringwork type earthwork rather than a motte. Alternativey the bawn may have been a reference to the bailey or courtyard adjoining the motte castle. Graham (1980, 52-3) suggests that Athlone formed a part of the final western frontier of the Liberty of Meath, a frontier which also included the motte castles of Granard (LF010-080001-), Co. Longford, Kilbixy (WM011-041----) and Rathconrath (WM018-093----), Co. Westmeath. The construction dates of the latter two motte castles, in 1192 and 1191 respectively, dates the formation of this frontier in his view. Accordingly a date between 1191 and 1199 could be proposed for the construction of the Athlone motte castle (Bradley et. al. 1985, 36). Claffey (1970-1, 55) has suggested that de Costentin may not have built a motte but merely reused the Ua Conchobhar [O'Conor] fortification (WM029-042098-) in Athlone. This suggestion finds some support in the Annals of Loch Cé reference to the Bishop of Norwich building in Athlone a new bridge (WM029-042004-) and a 'castle (WM029-042002-) instead of 'Ua Conchobhar's [O'Conor's] castle (WM029-042098-)' in 1210. Even if the survival of the Ua Conchobhar castle until 1210 were accepted, however, this does not exclude the construction of a motte because mottes were frequently built on top of ringforts and other pre-existing settlements (Graham 1980, 51). Claffey (1970-1, 55) further suggests that de Costentin's settlement was sited on the east bank of the Shannon but Orpen (1907, 263-4) was of the opinion that the original motte was built, and could still be detected, on the site of the present stone castle (WM029-042003-). The visit of King John to Ireland in 1210 marks a turning point in the development of Athlone. John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich, was appointed justiciar of Ireland as part of John’s efforts to improve the administration of the colony and he appears to have recognized the strategic importance of Athlone as the gateway between the Anglo-Norman liberty of Meath and Connacht, still effectively in Irish hands (Orpen 1911-20, II, 281; Claffey 1970-1, 56). De Grey appears to have desired to establish Athlone as the joint seat (with Dublin) of English administration in Ireland (Claffey 1970-1, 56) and the first step in this plan was the construction of new stone castle (WM029-042002-) and bridge (WM029-042004-) at Athlone in 1210. The 13th century Anglo-Norman stone castle may have been built on the site of the 12th century motte castle which in turn was built on the site of the Gaelic earth and timber fortification of the O'Conor's. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 November 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay three-storey house, built, c.1800. Now in use as offices. Part of a terrace when originally built. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystacks to each end. Smooth rendered finish to ground floor, roughcast above, separated by plain rendered string course. Square-headed openings with rendered reveals, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Cast-iron window guard to ground floor window. Round-headed block-and-start doorcase with blocked architraves to east side of front façade having a modern timber panelled door and plain fanlight above. Street-fronted.

• Corpus Christi Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, built 1840-1, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (east) abutting single-bay two-stage engaged turret on a square plan. Renovated, 1860-1, with interior "improved". Closed, 1941. In alternative use, 1952. Adapted to alternative use, 1992. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables on cut-limestone kneelers including cut-limestone chamfered coping to gable (west) on cut-limestone kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves on dentil consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls on benchmark-inscribed margined tooled limestone ashlar chamfered plinth with margined tooled limestone ashlar diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having tooled cut-limestone coping. Lancet or pointed-arch window openings, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on engaged octagonal label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east), cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening (porch), cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Lancet openings (turret) with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Full-height interior remodelled, 1992, with central aisle between timber pews, stations between stained glass windows, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) with pointed-arch chancel arch framing reclaimed high altar below stained glass "Trinity Window". Set in relandscaped grounds.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house with commercial premises to ground floor, built c.1840, with projecting two-bay single-storey extension to the front façade. Now in use as an office. One of a pair with no.23. Double-pitched artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course and a rendered chimneystack to the north end. Rendered walls to main building. Rusticated ashlar facing to extension with Doric pilasters, cornice and flat roof hidden behind raised parapet inscribed 'National Land Bank Ltd'. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and stone sills, triple fixed pane window to front extension. Square-headed inset doorcase with timber panelled door flanked by console brackets with acanthus decoration, plain rectangular overlight above. Low wall with ashlar limestone coping and cast-iron railings at line of party wall with adjacent property (no.23). Street-fronted.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, renovated with shopfront added to ground floor c.1990. Now in use as a commercial premises with accommodation above. One of a pair with no.21. Double-pitched artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered chimneystacks to the south end. Smooth rendered walls with square-headed openings having stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed inset doorcase having a timber panelled door flanked by console brackets with acanthus decoration. Plain rectangular overlight above. Plinth wall with ashlar limestone coping and cast-iron railings over to the north end, shared with adjacent property (no.21). Street-fronted with modern gate to south end giving access to rear yard.

• House, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey house, built c.1770, with shopfront added c.1870. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end. Smooth rendered with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings to the upper floors having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Wooden shutters with raised and fielded panels to the first floor window openings. Shopfront to ground floor removed and replaced by sheet metal doors. Small square-headed carriage arch to eastern most bay with timber double doors and stone wheel guards. Street-fronted.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three storey house, built c.1820. Renovated c.1940 with shopfront inserted. Now disused with living accommodation over. Pitched natural slate roof with large rendered brick chimneystacks to either end. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed doorcase to western most bay with replacement glazed timber door and with a plain overlight above. Plain timber shopfront, c.1940, with central door flanked by fixed pane windows over low stallrisers. Street-fronted.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with shopfront added c.1890. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered façade with raised rendered block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sash windows and stone sills. Traditional shopfront to east end having timber pilasters supporting timber fascia with moulded timber cornice above. Panelled timber external shutters to shop window. Square-headed doorcase to shopfront with rectangular overlight, now boarded. Street-fronted.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1900 and renovated c.1985. Pitched natural slate roof slates with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered finish to the ground floor over a smooth rendered plinth, roughcast rendered walls to the first floor and block quoins to the corners at either end. Square-headed window openings having three-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the first floor openings, a six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to the west end of the ground floor and a replacement window to the east end of the front façade at ground floor level. Wrought-iron sill guard to the window opening to the west end of the front façade at ground floor level. Square-headed doorway having replacement timber door and with a plain overlight above. Channelled rendered surrounds to the ground floor openings. Road-fronted to the west end of the north side of Connaught Street.

• House, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1790, with shopfront added to ground floor c.1900. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and with chimneystacks to gable ends. Ruled-and-line rendered walls to the ground floor and lime roughcast rendered walls to the first floor. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed doorcase with rectangular overlight to centre of ground floor, now boarded-up. Shopfront added to ground floor, c.1900, with rendered strip pilasters supporting timber fascia board with cornice above. Shopfront now boarded up. Set slightly back from the road with modern forecourt to front.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Double-pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and red-brick chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots. Brick pie-crust cornice at eaves level. Constructed of red brick with yellow and black brick string courses and flush yellow brick quoins to the corners. Segmental-headed window openings with yellow and blue brick voussoirs and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed doorcase with timber panelled door and plain overlight. Road-fronted.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1800, with traditional shop front inserted to ground floor c.1900. Renovated c.1960. Pitched artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystack shared with building to the east. Ruled-and-line rendered walls to the ground floor with roughcast rendered finish above. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to first floor and replacement timber casement window to ground floor (shop window) window opening. Timber shopfront with timber pilasters supporting timber fascia board with cornice above. Square-headed doorcase with timber panelled door with overlight above. Road-fronted.

• J. Fawl, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-bay house, built c.1800, with traditional timber shopfront inserted to ground floor c.1870. Now derelict. Pitched roof with exposed rafters, projecting eaves course and a rendered chimneystack shared with adjacent building to east. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with projecting rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Timber shopfront to east end with timber pilasters and fascia board. Windows and door now boarded-up. Square-headed doorway to the west end of front façade having raised block-and-start surround and a timber panelled door with overlight above. Road-fronted.

• Auburn House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1810. Now in use as offices. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and with a rendered chimneystack to the east end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first and second floor openings and a replacement uPVC window to the ground floor having a cast-iron window guard. Round-headed doorcase to west end of front façade with cut stone block-and-start surround and replacement timber panelled door having a plain fanlight above. Road-fronted.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, with shopfront added c.1910. Building renovated c.1995. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks to either end. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with painted quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Square-headed doorcase to east end of main façade with a glazed timber door with overlight above. Modern traditional style shopfront incorporating timber consoles and fascia from older shopfront c.1910. Road fronted.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830. Now is use as offices with private accommodation above. Pitched artificial slate roof with a projecting eaves course and with rendered chimneystacks to either end. Smooth rendered finish to the ground floor and roughcast rendered above to the upper floors with rendered block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, cut stone sills (first and second floors) and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Wrought-iron guards to ground floor windows. Central square-headed doorway having channelled rendered surround and a glazed timber door with overlight above. Road-fronted with alley to west gable end.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Now is use as a commercial premises with accommodation over. Pitched artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course and with shared rendered chimneystacks to either end. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Single casement window above door to first floor. Round-headed doorcase with rendered hoodmould over, inset brick rebated surrounds and replacement door with overlight above. Cut limestone steps to base of door. Road-fronted.

• Bank/financial institution, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey former National Bank premises, built in 1836. Later in use as a Bishop's residence c.1855 and now in use as employment services centre. Cut stone shopfront to bank consists of four Ionic columns (with fluted necking) supporting an entablature over (acting as the fascia) having a moulded cornice with modillions above. Pitched artificial slate roof with a projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered chimneystacks to the centre and the west end. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over cut stone plinth having an incised benchmark. Square-headed window openings to first floor with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed windows to the ground floor with replacement windows over rendered stallrisers with inset panels. Round-headed doorway to the east end having a replacement timber door with a spoke/radial fanlight above. Road-fronted.

• Lyster House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820. Originally part of a distillery and brewery complex but in use as a second level school since c.1960. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and two rendered chimneystacks to the centre. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed cut stone tetrastyle Ionic doorcase with timber glazed door, sidelights and a replacement fanlight above. Doorcase reached by flight of cut stone steps flanked by low walls terminated with modern piers on square-plan. Set back from road in extensive grounds with two-storey extension to rear.

• House, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1775. Pitched natural slate roof with a projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, cast-iron rooflights and a single rendered chimneystack shared with adjacent building to west (15000206). Ruled-and-line rendered walls with raised block quoins to east end. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Altered (widened) ground floor opening with replacement casement window. Replacement timber door set in square-headed recess to east end of main elevation. Road-fronted.

• House, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of six two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1893, with projecting box bay windows to the ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roofs with (shared) rendered chimneystacks (having brick detailing) and a number of remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Built of red brick with yellow brick flush string courses and alternating red and yellow brick voussoirs above the first floor openings. Paired segmental-headed windows to box bays with decorative lintels over, all now with replacement windows but one retains original cast-iron mullion (no.4). Square-headed openings to first floor window with replacement windows. Segmental-headed doorcases with overlights and replacement doors. Set back from road with small gardens to front with rendered boundary walls with decorative cast-iron railings and (shared) cast-iron gates to street frontage.

• Store/warehouse, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited attached five-bay three-storey warehouse, built c.1820. Renovated and converted to restaurant c.1990. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of random rubble masonry with roughcast render over. Square-headed window openings, irregularly spaced, with replacement timber casement windows. Small window openings to third floor. Square-headed doorcase to centre of Abbey Lane façade with replacement door with modern timber canopy over. Road-fronted.

• Scoil Náisiúnta Naoimh Peadar agus Pól, school, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay (six-bay deep) two-storey national school, designed 1933; dated 1934, on a U-shaped plan centred on prostyle distyle pedimented Doric portico to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey flat-roofed central return (north). Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on flat roof (north), clay ridge tiles centred on Cross finial-topped copper-covered cupola, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on thumbnail beaded moulded rendered cornice. Fine roughcast walls on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth with rendered panelled piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening behind prostyle distyle pedimented Doric portico with columns on plinths having responsive pilasters supporting ogee-detailed open bed pediment on dosserets, and moulded rendered surround centred on inscribed date stone ("1934") framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of street with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.

• House, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace corner-sited single-bay three-storey house, built c.1806, with modern shopfront to ground floor. One of a terrace of four. Hipped roof, recently reslated, with modern rooflights. Rendered walls with raised block quoins to corners and block-and-start surrounds to openings, plinth to base. Segmental-headed window openings with replacement tripartite timber sliding sash windows. Modern shopfront to ground floor consisting of central square-headed doorcase with overlight and timber fascia over, flanked by fixed-pane shop windows. Road-fronted.

• House, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1806. One of a terrace of four. Hipped roof, recently reslated, with modern rooflights and no chimneystacks. Rendered walls with raised rendered block quoins to upper floors to west end and a plinth to the base. Square-headed window openings to the ground floor with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the first and second floors with tripartite timber sliding sash windows and block-and-start surrounds. Round-headed doorcase with limestone block-and-start surround to west end with replacement timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Road-fronted.

• House, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1806, with modern shopfront to the ground floor. Now in use as public house with accommodation over. One of a terrace of four. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with raised block quoins to corners and a plinth to the base. Shallow segmental-headed openings to the first and second floors with tripartite timber sliding sash windows having block-and-start surrounds. Modern shopfront to ground floor with fixed-pane windows with timber fascia over. Round-headed doorcase with limestone block-and-start surround to end with replacement timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Square-headed doorcase with glazed timber doors having an overlight to west end of shopfront. Road-fronted.

• House, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace single-bay three-storey house, built c.1806, with restored shopfront to ground floor. Formerly premises of a branch of the Irish National Foresters. Now in use as restaurant with offices over. One of a terrace of four. Pitched natural slate roof with (shared) rendered chimneystack to the east end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with raised block quoins to the corners and a plinth to the base. Shallow segmental-headed openings to the first and second floors with tripartite timber sliding sash windows and block-and-start surrounds. Shopfront to ground floor consisting of bowed fixed pane windows with leaded glass separated by timber pilasters with timber fascia board over. Restored shopfront contains fabric of earlier shopfront. Central squared-headed entrance to shopfront with glazed timber doors. Road-fronted.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, having a modern shopfront to ground floor. Now in use as commercial premises with accommodation over. Originally two separate structures, later amalgamated. Pitched artificial slate roof with a projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with raised block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Segmental-headed doorway to the south end having a replacement timber paneled door, timber bracketed door frame and a tear-drop fanlight over. Channelled rendered surround to doorway. Modern timber shopfront with fixed-pane windows, timber pilasters and timber fascia. Road-fronted.

• House, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1760, with modern timber shopfronts to ground floor. Originally two separate buildings, now amalgamated. Now in use as two commercial premises with accommodation over. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystack on T-plan to the east end. Rendered walls with rendered panel/former signboard between first and second floors. Irregular projection in façade to west end suggests incorporation of earlier structure/fabric. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement casement windows. Modern shopfronts with timber pilasters, consoles, timber fascia, square-headed timber panelled doorcases and fixed pane windows to ground floor. Road-fronted.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace, corner-sited, three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with two-storey return to Castle Street façade. Now in use as public house with accommodation over. Pitched artificial slate roofs with projecting eaves course and a rendered chimneystack to the north corner. Rendered walls with raised rendered block quoins to the north end of main façade. Modern string course at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Modern shopfront to ground floor with square-headed fixed-pane windows flanked by square-headed doorcases with square-headed doorcase with overlights to either end. Road-fronted at corner of Main Street and Castle Street.

• K. Wallace, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace corner-sited two-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with shopfronts, c.1900, to the ground floor. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and a rendered chimneystack to centre of High Street elevation. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with a pronounced batter to base. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorcase to the north end of Main Street elevation having a timber panelled door and an overlight with margin glazing bars. Traditional timber shopfronts to Main Street and High Street elevations consisting of fixed-pane shop windows with simple Doric pilasters, flanked by timber doors with overlights with margin glazing and timber fascia board above. Enameled street signs "Main Street" and "An Tsraid Mor" in 1930 Irish script on facade to Main Street. Road-fronted at the junction of Main Street and High Street.

• , 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, now in use as offices. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and (shared) rendered chimneystacks to either end. Rendered walls over plinth. Cast-iron tie-bar plates at first and second floors. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorcase with cut stone block-and-start surround with a timber panelled door having a plain fanlight over. Road-fronted.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1830. Renovated c.1995. Pitched artificial slate roof with a shared rendered chimneystack in pitch to rear, set at angle, to the south end. Cement rendered walls with square-headed window openings having replacement casement windows. Round-headed doorcase to the south end with rendered block-and-start surround and a timber panelled door with plain fanlight over. Road-fronted.

• House, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1775, now in use as commercial premises with accommodation over. Pitched natural slate roof with a raised verge and a brick chimneystack to the south gable end. Evidence that a chimneystack was recently removed to north end. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; two openings to first floor and one to second floor. Modern shopfront to ground floor incorporating remains of carved timber console brackets from earlier shopfront, c.1900. Road-fronted.

• Coaching inn, 1700–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey former coaching inn, built c.1725, possibly containing the fabric of earlier buildings. Now divided into two separate commercial premises with accommodation over. Originally a two-storey building but second floor added at a subsequent date. Low pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks to either end. Rendered walls with widely-spaced square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and replacement windows. Two modern shopfronts to ground floor with modern square-headed doorcases. Sean's Bar façade (south) has four fluted Ionic columns which were moved here from Gills Bookshop, O'Connell St. Dublin, c.1980. Road-fronted.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace corner-sited three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with modern shopfront to the ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings having replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Chamfered corner at ground floor level to southwest end. Modern shopfront to ground floor consisting of central square-headed doorcase flanked by fixed pane display windows with reproduction timber fascia over. Square-headed doorcase to side (south) elevation. Road-fronted.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1810, with single-bay two-storey section to south end having an integral segmental-headed carriage arch. Extensively renovated from derelict condition in 1992 and extended to the rear to provide accommodation. Hipped natural slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course and rendered brick chimneystacks to either end. Constructed of coursed random rubble masonry with flush dressed stone quoins to corners and having brick trim to openings. Originally rendered. North gable has been recently cement rendered with modern brick dressings to the windows. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorcase with limestone block-and-start surround and a replacement door and with replacement fanlight over. Road-fronted with modern extensions and extensive yard to rear.

• Athlone Lock, lock keeper's house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey harbour master's house, built c.1900, now in use as private residence. Modern single-bay single-storey extension to rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with decorative ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor and roughcast rendered above to first floor, separated by projecting rendered string course. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed doorcase to east (river-facing) elevation. Small garden enclosure to east surrounded by wrought-iron railings on cut stone plinth with cast-iron gate piers and gate. Located on the west side of the River Shannon adjacent to the Shannon Navigation Lock (15000345).

• Church/chapel, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-height single-cell former Presbyterian church, built c.1860, having a modern single-storey extension to rear. Subsequently converted to a warehouse. Now in use as a restaurant. Steeply-pitched artificial slate roof with dormer openings. Roughly coursed limestone walls with render over. Pointed-arched opening to east gable with reticulated stone tracery with dripstone above. Circular opening to west gable with stone 'Star of David' tracery and brick surrounds. Modern square-headed openings elsewhere. Modern square-headed doorcase to east gable with timber double-doors. Located to the west bank of the Shannon close to the historic core of Athlone.

• Athlone Castle, fortification, 1210–1830 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Norman castle, built c.1210, consisting of a polygonal keep with early-nineteenth century machicolations surrounded by a thick rubble limestone curtain wall (on pentangular plan with pronounced base batter) having three polygonal bastions to north and east side facing over bridge and River Shannon. Largely rebuilt by British Army between c.1800-1827. In military ownership until 1970, now in use as a museum. Tower to Market Place elevation crowned by early-nineteenth century cast-iron water tank by Mallet of Dublin. Garderobe to northern part of curtain wall. Detached five-bay two-storey barrack building to interior, built c.1810. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with pitched slate roof, square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and a round-headed doorcase with timber door and spoke fanlight above. The ramp up to the castle has a line of pistol loops. Castle located on east bank of River Shannon overlooking Shannon road bridge (to north east) and site of earlier bridges (to east).

• Monument, 1980–1990 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding obelisk-topped cut-limestone monument, dated 1985, on a square plan on limestone-clad stepped base. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1855–1919 · Regional interest
  Description

  Convent cemetery on irregular plan, opened 1858, having cast-iron grave markers and a cut limestone Celtic cross set within round iron railings on cut stone plinth. Surrounded by rubble limestone wall with Ward Boundary marker. Located to rear of Convent of Mercy (15000267).

• Vent pipe, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, erected c.1885, consisting of cast-iron cylindrical shaft with splayed saw tooth-profiled parapet over fluted cast-iron base section. Located at junction in road to immediate south of rubble limestone boundary wall.

• Harbour/dock/port, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Series of five cast-iron bollards, erected c.1844. Set in section of modern paving adjacent to cut limestone quays built as part of Shannon Navigation Works (1840-49). Located to the north of the former Shannon Navigation lock (15000345). Inscribed 'Shannon Commission 1844'.

• Post box, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron pillar post box, erected c.1915, with moulded neck and domed cap with fluted edge. Road fronted on a corner site on footpath.

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 Athlone and Bigmeadow, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1578 (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 Athlone and Bigmeadow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Athlone and Bigmeadow

Area

457,372 m² (45.74 ha, 113.02 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peter's, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Athlone West Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,403 people lived in 1,461 households in the Athlone West Urban electoral division. 44% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canal and Banks, Ranelagh

Placenames

Athlone and Bigmeadow 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.