Kilcatherina

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcatherina, from 4 m² to 277,474 m² (27.75 ha, 68.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcatherina in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  permission to alter, renovate & extend my existing bungalow type dwelling house. The works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2542

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  permission to alter, renovate and extend my existing bungalow type dwelling house. The works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2537

• 15 Aug 2025N/a

  Permission to alter, renovate and extend existing bungalow type dwelling house. Works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2531

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  development which will consist of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360370

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  to construct an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. The demolition of an existing rear extension and agricultural shed, new effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22238

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21221

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  Construction of a five-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207167

• 20 Apr 2020Refused

  To construct a five-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207062

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 Kilcatherina.

Recorded monuments

• WM031-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small rise, in pasture, with extensive views to S, overlooked by higher ground to N. Ringfort (WM031-076----) lies c. 120m to W. Monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 57m NW-SE; 53m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank which is reduced to a scarp in places. A low earthen bank is visible from S-SW-W-NW which is best preserved from SW-W. The bank is reduced to a scarp from NW-N-NW-E-SE-S which has a modern field fence built against it. A public road has clipped the outer edge of the scarp from E-ESE-SE. There is a farm house and yard just outside the monument at NNE and a drystone outbuilding has been built against the edge of the bank at NNW. The bank is disturbed by livestock gaps but there is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a SE-facing slope and the surface is uneven due to disturbance. An electricity pole has been erected in the N quadrant and there is a small rectangular rock outcrop adjacent to NW of it. There is a large depression in the E quadrant and some irregular undulations in the S quadrant. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having a projecting single-bay gable-fronted porch to the centre of the front façade (east) and a single-bay single-storey shed attached to the south gable end. Pitched slate roof with a projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and a central red brick chimneystack. Roughcast lime rendered walls having square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, cut stone sills and one-one-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorcase to porch with timber sheeted door. Set back from road in own grounds, aligned perpendicular to road, with a pair of coursed rubble limestone gate piers, on square-plan with cut stone capstones over supporting a wrought-iron bar gate, to the south. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilcatherina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilcatherina

Area

960,313 m² (96.03 ha, 237.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumreragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Ballybroder, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybroder electoral division: 240 people in 76 households; 93% of households own their home; 12% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Ballinderry, Ballinlig, Ballybeg, Ballybroder, Fearboy (Co. Offaly), Grange, Kilcumreragh

Placenames

Kilcatherina 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.