Rathwire Upper

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathwire Upper, from 86 m² to 321,933 m² (32.19 ha, 79.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Expanded Settlement Centre (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Sporting Recreational (Active open space)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  development which will consist of the proposed refurbishment and change of use of the existing derelict market house currently used for storage to provide retail use at the ground floor and office use at first and second floors. The ground floor retail to incorporate market sales, coffee shop, outdoor seating area and sanitary provisions and the upper floors to provide e-working/co-working facilities and associated amenities, sanitary provisions, etc. The proposed change of use and refurbishment works include rebuilding the roofs of the attached single-storey outbuilding and two-storey external stair enclosure, new window and door units to the ground floor arcade, new timber-sash windows at first and second floors, restoring existing historic fabric (structure and boundaries), removing non-historic materials, full electrical and plumbing provisions and changes to the internal layouts to facilitate the new uses. The development will also provide parking to the rear of the site accessed via the public road, bin storage, bicycle parking, hard landscaping, connections to the public sewer and all associated site works and service connections. The property is a Protected Structure recorded in the Westmeath County Development Plan 2021-2027, RPS reference number 020-013

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660316

• 22 Nov 2025Conditional

  a two storey extension to the rear of their existing house consisting of a kitchen, sitting room and toilet on the ground floor (42.0sqm) and an additional bedroom & bathroom on the first floor (30.0sqm) and all associated site works, 2no sun roof canopies to west-facing elevation of existing house

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560577

• 9 May 2025Conditional

  construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560226

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  Retention permission to retain the existing extension (282sqm) and alterations as constructed on site, from that previously granted (262.7sqm), under planning ref 18/6187. Retention permission is also sought for the new domestic entrance onto the public road and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460171

• 25 May 2022Refused

  construction of 8 no. 2 storey semi-detached houses with the following typology: 4 no. 2 bed and 4 no. 3 bed units. The site works will include a proposed site entrance, removal of existing shed ruins and part of existing stone wall, access roadway, landscaping and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 8 homes · Westmeath County Council, 22283

• 28 Jan 2022Refused

  the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance off the public road, proprietary wastewater treatment system and packaged tertiary unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2220

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  Construction of an extension onto the existing graveyard, St Etchen's Church is a protected structure(Ref 020-011)

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21442

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no dwelling, shared entrance onto public road, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21444

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, a detached domestic garage, detached self containing dwelling unit, upgrade the existing entrance off the public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206319

• 24 Jul 2020N/a

  construct a new storey and a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206190

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey side extension to west of existing dwelling to serve as ancillary family accommodation incorporating a bedroom, shower room, store room & extended kitchen, construct rear dormer extension incorporating living & dining area at ground floor & bedroom at 1st floor, upgrade existing septic tank, demolish existing storage shed & relocate, internal alterations & modifications to existing dwelling & all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186187

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  permission of an existing 30 metre high monopole telecommunications support structure (previously granted permission under reference 12/2051 which was a temporary permission which has expired) carrying antennas and link dishes together with associated equipment units & security fencing.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 176352

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 Rathwire Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E slope of a rise, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1970-7 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 29m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (overall Wth 4.7m; Wth at top 1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) that has been incorporated into a field boundary from NW-N-ESE and has gaps at E, SSE, SW and NW. There is no definite trace of an outer fosse although there is a slight depression from S-SSW. A modern trench has been dug outside the bank from SW-NW. The original entrance is not visible. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and an earth and stone bank (L 9.4m; overall Wth 1.4m; Wth at top 0.4m; H 0.35m) runs E-W across the E-sector. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

• WM020-123 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 67-9) as following: ‘Complex, challenging and greatly damaged earthwork, currently comprising an elongated, roughly heel-shaped and steep-sided basal mound or platform (20.1m N-S x 16.4m E-W), with curve of heel to S, on which end is a roughly circular, steep-sided mound with overall EW diameter of 7.6m and flat top (Diam. 3.8m N-S x 4.2m E-W). Basal platform rises up to 1.05m above ground level on E side and 1.1m at W. Its N end is defined by a straight line running at an oblique angle to its long axis; although this has the appearance of having been done by modern farm machinery, and we know that the site has been extensively damaged in recent decades (see below), it nonetheless seems to be depicted on 1838 OS 6” map where it runs at right angles to long axis of monument— here shown with its long axis running NNW-SSE. On the surface, this appears to be the result of confusion on the part of the surveyors: the WSW-ENE orientation of the straight line is accurate, but the surveyors have projected the rest of the heel symmetrically at right angles to this line. Earlier accounts provide a significant challenge to this interpretation, however, which will be considered below. Near centre of flat side of heel as it currently presents is an indent 1m in width and c. 2m in depth, sloping up from current edge of mound to top of platform, with the appearance of a ramped entranceway. Close to N end of platform, just S of this indent, is a low, E-W running elongated mound or ridge of earth—much overgrown when visited by the survey-team on a single occasion—which effectively blocks direct access from ‘ramp’ to mound. On its N side, upper mound on S side of platform rises 1m above basal platform which extends 7.8m to N of it; its height is similar above the narrow ledges forming adjacent E and W sides of platform; on S side the slope of side of mound continues that of basal platform, giving a total height of 2.3m at this end of monument. This site has been severely damaged, leaving it with the appearance of a miniature motte and bailey. For a start, the historic OS 25” map shows a segment of bank composed of three straight lines surrounding SW quadrant of basal platform, c. 10m out from it, which has been removed by ploughing but still shows up in aerial photographs. When the same ASI fieldworker visited the site in both 1970 and 1977, the bank was still visible with a ditch between it and the platform, and more intriguingly, a greater extent of N end of platform survived. The more complete account of 29/4/77 is given here: The site consists of two conjoined artificial earthen mounds enclosed from NW-W-S-SE by an earthen stone bank which is best preserved on the SWW. The bank is absent on the E, NE and N – may have been ploughed out – there are traces of old cultivation ridges between the bank and the mounds in the W sector. Between the bank and mounds there is a wide flat shallow fosse and the area enclosed is roughly set circular or square in plan. Three are no indications of a fosse outside the bank. The bank has been dug into on the SW and here too there are two boulders on the crest. The mounds have a fairly circular shape, the S mound somewhat steeper than the N. There is some recent defacement on the SW slope of the S mound and the N mound has an older depression on top. The junction is regular and show incurving. The bank has sharp ‘corners’ and a sharp profile. It may be that the two conjoined barrows are the original site with a later stone earthen (field) bank placed on the W-S. There is also a short projecting bank at the SW corner extending down the natural slope. [SMR file] The account of 10/4/70 gives additional information on the mounds and dimensions for the bank: The two conjoined mounds are unusual. They may be barrows or they may be formed from the material of the demolished part of the bank. They are conjoined in the N-S line. The S. one is flat-topped and oval. The N one is also oval and portion of its top has been dug away…. Top width of bank at W = 80cm; Overall width of bank at W = 3m; Internal height of bank at W = 60cm; External height of bank at W = 65cm. [SMR file] A sketch-plan of the site in the earlier account clearly shows the two mounds at opposite ends of a long oval platform, the whole surrounded at S and W by the now-destroyed outer bank—shown as curvilinear rather than angular. A third short account by the same fieldworker, dated 17/5/77, only a month after the second, pinpoints the time of its destruction: Having seen the twin mounds at Lakill and Moortown [WM007-015----; WM007-015001-] I would take this to be a pair of burial mounds too. The bank from SSE-S-W has been completely removed recently and most of the north eastern mound has been removed also. It would appear from these accounts that the north end of the platform was of much greater extent until recently. This conflicts with the suggested interpretation given above, according to which the obliquely sliced N end of platform and its overall heel-shape—both features still apparent—are shown on the 1838 OS 6” map. When we consider that the 25” map, which is of a later date than the First Edition 6” map, shows a more complete oval or rather pear-shaped central element with pointed end to N, and a stretch of bank beyond it at S and W—far from its current appearance and much closer to the 1970s ASI accounts,— a revised interpretation seems more probable. If we take it that the 1838 map depicts the outer edge of the entire monument, rather than just the inner, currently surviving platform and mound, then the heel-shape refers to the outer bank and not the platform, which is not depicted and was presumably oval-shaped to go by the 25” map: the orientation of the heel shape would therefore not, as suggested above, be the result of a mistaken projecting of the rounded southern part of the heel at right angles to an obliquely sliced northern end; rather it would quite accurately depict the curve of the SW-stretch of outer bank as it was shown on the 25” map and survived until 1977, but this is continued around E side of platform either to ensure symmetry in the depiction or perhaps because in 1838 the bank actually did extend around this side. Although this monument must for the moment be left as unclassified, it can be very tentatively suggested that in its original form it comprised a pair of conjoined bowl-barrows sharing a common, oval-shaped ditch, as at Lakill and Moortown (WM007-015----; WM007-015001-), but here with a bank outside the ditch. This monument, the subject of a preservation order since 1977, is very prominently situated at SW edge of a NW-SE-running spur of a hill rising up to 153m OD c. 1km to N; visibility is excellent to S and SW. Although there is higher ground to N, where a prominent hilltop just under 1km away has another unusual barrow (WM020-087----), the land falls away much more sharply to SW, so that when approached from this side, where a second unclassified-barrow (WM020-124----) is visible much lower down, the present barrow appears to be prominently located on a false summit. This and WM020-087---- AND WM020-124---- are part of a broader group of barrows on and around the elevated ground west of Killucan, including the well-known and tightly-knit cemetery at Rathnarrow/Lisnabin (WM020-109----112----/113----/114----)’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 18/1977).

• WM020-124 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 67) as following: ‘Markedly tear-drop-shaped or eye-shaped earthwork (Diam. (overall) 24.6m N-S x 31.7m E-W), broader at W end than E, comprising a large basal mound with gently domed upper surface (Diam. 18.4m N-S x 26m E-W) and delimited by a steep scarp on all sides; on top of this is a low mound, eccentrically positioned 15.2m from broad W end of basal mound but only 6.5m from narrow E end. This upper mound is irregular shaped but roughly circular (Diam. 3.9m N-S x 3.8m E-W), and rises only 0.5m above basal mound where highest on S side. Height of scarp defining basal mound is up to 1.2m on N and S sides; and absolute height of monument, from upper surface of upper mound to ground level, is 2m at SE. Various kerb-like boulders protrude from edges of scarp, with several visible on N and S sides; but these are found at differing heights, and, as one ASI fieldworker observed on 27/7/72, ‘there is no clearly visible indications that they are formally set’ [SMR file]. Chunks have been removed from edge of mound in various places, especially at NNE but also at SE, the result of cattle erosion or small-scale quarrying; but overall the monument is well preserved. Faint traces of a bank observed by an ASI fieldworker on 10/4/70 were in the disturbed NNE area and, as such, were ‘probably not original’ [SMR file]. Barrow is sited on a local eminence from which it has at least in part been shaped, given that there is no ditch to account for the massive basal mound. The complex, prominently positioned barrow at Rathwire Upper (WM020-123----) is visible uphill to N, on S slope of hill that is capped by a ring-barrow in an unusual rectilinear enclosure (WM020-087----). Lower down again, a couple of hundred metres to S of present barrow, are two branches of the E-W flowing Riverstown River, a tributary of the Deel’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016

• WM020-125001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated in a low rise of ground 440m SSW of St. Etchen's Church (WM020-128----) and the village of Killucan. Rathwire motte and bailey castle possibly built by Hugh de Lacy between 1182-7 on the site of an earlier fortress known as Rath Guaire (O'Donovan 1856, 970; Adams 1960, 31; Brady 1961, 39-40). The castle of Rathwire is mentioned in the Irish Pipe Roll of 1211-12 when it was in the possession of Robert de Lacy (Davies & Quinn 1941, 45, 7). The monument today consists of a large steep-sided flat-topped mound with kidney-shaped bailey to S separated by a fosse which contains masonry fragments of a stone castle (WM020-125002-) possibly of early 13th century date (Adams 1960, 31). No foundations visible of stone castle which may have been a later medieval structure standing in the bailey which was enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The public road intersects the E side of the bailey with no evidence of the enclosing element of the bailey at E. A linear earthwork (approx. L 143m) 60m N of the motte could possibly be remains of enclosing element associated with the stone castle, or possibly the enclosing element of a pre-Norman enclosure. Alternatively the curving earthwork of the bailey tot he S of the motte which is intersected by the modern road at E could be the remains of a pre-Norman enclosure with the earthworks to the N the remains of the medieval bailey. Earthworks in field to S of motte may be remains of post-1700 field system with evidence of quarry holes 120m S of bailey. Remains of a possible trackway are visible running N from the quarry hole towards the bailey of the castle. The OS 25-inch map shows the presence of a post-1700 limekiln located immediately SW of the enclosing fosse of the bailey which may be related to the quarry holes and the trackway. See attached ASI ketch plan of motte and bailey showing remains of earthworks to N of castle mound Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 July 2019

• WM020-125002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in a low rise of ground 440m SSW of St. Etchen's Church (WM020-128----) and the village of Killucan. Rathwire motte and bailey castle (WM020-125001-) possibly built by Hugh de Lacy between 1182-7 on the site of an earlier fortress known as Rath Guaire (O'Donovan 1856, 970; Adams 1960, 31; Brady 1961, 39-40). The territory of Killucan was granted by Sir Hugh De Lacy to Sir Robert de Lacy and during the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) these de Lacy lands were granted to Mortimer, Earl of March and later during the reign of Edward III (1327-77), the lands were granted to Sir John D'Arcy, Chief Governor of Ireland (Cogan 1867, 434). A stone castle is depicted standing immediately S of the motte on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and masonry fragments of this stone castle possibly of 13th century date can be seen standing in the fosse of the motte (Adams 1960, 31). No foundations are visible of this stone castle which may have been a later medieval structure standing in the bailey which was enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of four houses/buildings, comprising a semi-detached three-bay two-storey house to the east with a projecting gable-fronted breakfront to the centre bay, built c.1880, and a group of terraced three-bay single-storey houses to the west, built c.1820. Two-storey building previously in use as a post office (c.1914) and a number of the single-storey buildings were formerly in use as a bakery. Single-storey houses now out of use. Two-storey building still occupied. Hipped and pitched natural slate roofs to two-storey house having a central brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof (pitched to west end) to single-storey houses having cast-iron rainwater goods and with a modern brick chimneystack towards the east end. Two-storey building constructed of coursed limestone with brick dressings to the openings and brick quoins to the corners. Random rubble limestone construction to the single-storey terrace with dressed stone quoins to the corners and cut limestone dressings to the openings. Square and segmental-headed window openings to two-storey building with stone sills and timber sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to single-storey terrace with cut stone sills and with a number of remaining (paired) timber casement windows. Window openings to the west end now most blocked. Segmental-headed doorcases, mostly blocked to the single-storey range. Two-storey structure is set back from road and bounded on road frontage by iron railings and gate. Single-storey terrace is road-fronted.

• Killucan Market House, market house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey former market house, completed c.1838, having a single-bay advanced gable-fronted breakfront to the centre of the front façade (east) and an open three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the south gable end. Formerly also in use as a court house, now in use as a store. Pitched artificial slate roofs with raised cut stone verges to gable ends (north and south) and to gable-fronted bay. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of dressed/ashlar limestone to ground floor with coursed rubble limestone construction over to first and second floor. Chamfered cut limestone plinth to base, dressed limestone quoins to the corners and a projecting ashlar string course to the projecting central bay at first floor level. Five segmental-headed carriage arches to the ground floor having cut limestone dressings and with four arches retaining early wrought-iron double gates. Carriage-arch to south end now infilled with brick. Square-headed window openings with cut stone dressings and cut stone sills. Most window openings now blocked with early timber louvered vents surviving to a number of the openings to the north end. First and second floor window openings to projecting breakfront are set in a segmental-headed recess with cut limestone dressings. Metal clock to gable. Flight of cut granite steps, flanked by wrought-iron handrails, to the north gable end gives access to first floor. Single-storey outbuilding/store to the south end has pitched natural slate roof supported on cast-iron columns. Set back from road in extensive grounds with forecourt to the east. Early rubble limestone boundary wall to the south end of street-frontage with modern gate piers (on square-plan) and cast-iron gates and railings to the east. Located to the centre of Killucan Village.

• Rose Lodge, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1790. Pitched natural slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end (north and south) and one offset to the north side of the centre) and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with raised quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Square-headed doorcase to the second bay from the north end on main façade (east) having a block-and-start surround with cavetto lintel over, early timber panelled door and a plain overlight above. Doorway reached by a flight of steps flanked to either side by wrought-iron railings. Square-headed doorcase to the south end of the main façade having rendered reveals, a timber panelled door and a plain overlight. Set back from road in mature grounds to the west of Killucan with a single-storey roughcast rendered rubble limestone outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof to the north of the house. House bounded on road-frontage by a rendered wall having hooped wrought-iron railings. Cast-iron gate posts and wrought-iron gates.

• Killucan Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted four-bay single-storey with attic level former Presbyterian church, built in 1844. Now in use as a school. Pitched natural slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods and a cut stone chimneystack (partially smooth rendered) to the west gable end. Coursed/snecked limestone rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins to the corners and a projecting cut stone eaves course, carried around gables to form simple pediments. Round-headed openings to north and south elevations with cut stone sills and multi-pane cast-iron windows having intersecting tracery to heads. Round-headed window opening to west gable end, set high in gable, with multi-pane cast-iron windows with intersecting tracery to head. No window openings to entrance façade. Round-headed doorcase to the centre of the entrance gable (east) having (flush) dressed limestone block-and-start surround and replacement timber sheeted double doors. Date plaque over main doorcase, dated '1844'. Square-headed doorcase to west gable end having replacement timber sheeted door. Set back from road in mature grounds to the west end of Killucan. Rubble limestone boundary wall to road-frontage. Main entrance gates to the northeast, comprising a pair of cut stone gate piers having cast-iron gates. Former manse (15312020) located adjacent to the west.

• The Manse, manse, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-store former manse on L-shaped plan, built c.1845, having an advanced gable-fronted bay to the east end of the main elevation (north), a single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre and a modern conservatory to the west end of the main façade (north). Now in use as a private house. Extension to the rear (south) having a catslide roof over. Pitched natural slate roof having a pair of chimneystacks with terracotta pots over and with decorative timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having tooled stone sills and timber sliding sash windows (mostly six-over-six pane). Canted bay window opening to gable-fronted fronted section to the east end of main façade. Square-headed door with timber sheeted door opening behind modern conservatory. Set back from road in mature grounds to the west end of Killucan with former Presbyterian church (15312019) adjacent to the east. Converted five-bay single-storey outbuilding to the rear (south) having rubble limestone walls with brick dressings to the openings and an artificial slate roof.

• Saint Camillus, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey over basement villa, built c.1830, having a tetrastyle Doric entrance porch (now enclosed) to the centre of the front façade (north), a canted projection to the east gable, a three-bay two-storey extension to the west end of the main elevation, a two-storey extension to the rear (south) and a number of modern additions to the rear (south) and to the southeast. Now in use as a nursing home. Shallow hipped slate roof (originally had balustraded parapet) with rendered chimneystacks and a plain rendered eaves course. Ruled-and-line rendered walls to original building with raised quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with elaborate stucco surrounds with console brackets supporting entablatures over, cut stone sills supported on corbels and with stained glass windows to the east side of porch and replacement uPVC windows to the west side. Square-headed window openings with modern windows to extensions. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Killucan. Extensive complex of outbuildings to the south and south west, formerly part of a corn mill complex, having rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings and pitched roofs. Swimming pool, which is filled by a cast-iron aqueduct (formerly part of corn mill), and handball alley to the rear (south). Cut limestone gate piers to site. Main entrance gates serving house to the northeast of house (15312023).

• Saint Camillus, gates/railings/walls, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving to Riverstown House (15312021), erected c.1880, comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan with moulded ashlar capstones over and having rock-faced panels to shaft), supporting a pair of cast-iron double gates with decorative finials. Main gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of ashlar limestone quadrant walling (on curved plan with moulded coping over) and terminated by further ashlar gate piers with rock-faced panels and with moulded capstones over. Square-headed pedestrian entrance to the south quadrant wall having raised ashlar limestone block-and-start surround and a wrought-iron gate. Similar pedestrian entrance to the north quadrant wall now blocked. Rubble limestone boundary walls run away to the north and the south. Located to the northeast of the Riverstown House and to the southwest of Killucan/Rathwire.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c.1890, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base surmounted by fluted dome shaped cap with ball finial over. Horizontal pull lever to side. Located on grass verge adjacent to road side to the northwest outskirts of Killucan Village.

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 Rathwire Upper, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathwire Upper.

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

Name

Rathwire Upper · Ráth Ghuaire Uachtarach

Area

1,734,039 m² (173.4 ha, 428.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Killucan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,039 people lived in 678 households in the Killucan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balrowan (Pakenham), Glebe, Grehanstown, Hodgestown, Killucan, Lisnabin, Mill Land, Rathnarrow, Rathwire Lower, Sarsfieldstown

Placenames

Rathwire Upper 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.