Archerstown

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Archerstown, from 116 m² to 320,916 m² (32.09 ha, 79.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 Jul 2025Refused

  to construct a Single Storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560376

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of (a) an extension to the northwest end of existing Community Centre building comprising Gym & Machinery Store, (b) install floodlit walking track & associated fencing, (c) extend existing Skills Wall & install an All-Weather Astro Area, (d) construct a single store detached store to rear of Community Centre, (e) relocate existing Wastewater Treatment unit & all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560064

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  (a) demolish existing pre-fabricated structure on site, (b) construct a two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22451

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a new bungalow type dwelling house, new access roadway with vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176369

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 Archerstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM008-041 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a small natural ridge in undulating grass-land. Depicted as a small oval shaped enclosure on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as 'Fort'. Depicted as a circular tree-lined enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on subsequent editions. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-045 Chapel
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in undulating grassland with extensive views in all directions. Archerstown House located 420m to NNE. Archerstown chapel of ease is depicted on 1655-9 Down Survey map of Castletown Delvin parish where it is annotated as 'chappell in repaire also an orchard and some ash trees' (NLI MS 723-4). On this map the small chapel is depicted as a single storey structure with cross on E gable and small bellcote on W gable. The chapel is shown standing in close proximity to Archerstown Castle (WM008-047----). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that in this townland there was 'a Castle in Archerstowne in repaire with a Bawne an Orchard and some Ash Trees and A Chappell of Ease in Repaire' (ibid.) Only the lower courses of the W wall of the chapel survives with grass covered wall footings of the N, E and S walls visible. A 19th century memorial and cast iron railing of the Monahan family has been built into the internal face of the W wall of the church adjacent to the SW angle. A single light window head has been placed on top of the W wall of church at SW angle. Chapel was better preserved in 1980 in particular the N wall of the building which then possessed an aumbry which is no longer visible as only the lower wall footings of this wall no survive. Building described in 1980 as only the grass covered walls survive of this small single cell chapel (approx. ext. dims. 6.9m N-S; 10m E-W; max. wall H 1.5m; wall T 0.9m) standing in the N quadrant of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (WM008-045001-). The N wall has traces of an ope or aumbry in the inner face located off centre to E. The poorly preserved S wall has a possible suggestion of a door opening close to the W end of the S wall. The head of a trefoil window lies on top of the S wall close to the SW angle. The E wall has been completely levelled. The W wall is the best preserved standing to a max. height of 1.5m. 19th century headstones have been inserted against and into the inner face of the W wall. No other architectural features visible. The interior of the church contains graves and post-1700 headstones. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-045001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in undulating grassland with extensive views in all directions. Sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 52m NW-SE; 32m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with ruins of medieval Archerstown Church (WM008-045----) standing in N quadrant. The graveyard contains post-1700 headstones some of which stand inside the medieval church ruins. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-045002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 11) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the sub-oval form of the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM008-045001-). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 August 2015

• WM008-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent hillock in gently undulating grass-land with excellent views from NW-N-E-SSE. Archerstown church (WM008-045----) and graveyard (WM008-045001-) located 390m to N. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 41m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The interior of the ringfort is uneven and contains a number of depressions & low banks. There appears to be the remains of an outer bank visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-047 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Archerstown Castle is mentioned in the terrier of the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Little Castletown parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier recorded that 'There is a Castle in Archerstowne in repaire with a Bawne an Orchard and some Ash Trees and A chappell of Ease (WM008-045----) in Repaire' (ibid.). In 1641 the castle and lands of Archerstown belonged to William Goulding [Golding]. The 17th century Down Survey parish map of Little Castletown depicts a castle to the W and in close proximity to a chapel of ease (WM008-045----). The castle ruins are marked on Larkin's 1808 map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). The area where this castle ruin is marked was visited in 1980 and described as following; 'There is nothing now visible in the field indicated to suggest the presence of a structure. A rectangular enclosure against the field fence (running NW-SE, see OS 6 inch) on the N side of the field outlined by a very faint low bank with a narrow shallow outer fosse may be no more than an old field’ (ASI Field Report 21/03/1980). There are earthworks visible in this area on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 which may be the remains of the ruins marked on Larkin;'s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath The Ordnance Survey Field name Book (No. 8, p. 2) for Archerstown recorded in 1837 that, ‘There are ruins of 2 ancient castles in this townland’. This latter reference suggests that there were two medieval castles in the townland of Archerstown. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 September 2016

• WM008-047001 Bawn
  Description

  Archerstown Castle (WM008-047---) and bawn is mentioned in the terrier of the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Little Castletown parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier recorded that 'There is a Castle in Archerstowne in repaire with a Bawne an Orchard and some Ash Trees and A chappell of Ease (WM008-045----) in Repaire' (ibid.). In 1641 the castle and lands of Archerstown belonged to William Goulding [Golding]. The 17th century Down Survey parish map of Little Castletown depicts a castle to the W and in close proximity to a chapel of ease (WM008-045----). The castle ruins are marked on Larkin's 1808 map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). The area where this castle ruin is marked was visited in 1980 and described as following; 'There is nothing now visible in the field indicated to suggest the presence of a structure. A rectangular enclosure against the field fence (running NW-SE, see OS 6 inch) on the N side of the field outlined by a very faint low bank with a narrow shallow outer fosse may be no more than an old field’ (ASI Field Report 21/03/1980). There are earthworks visible in this area on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 which may be the remains of the ruins marked on Larkin's 1808 map of Co. Westmeath. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on undulating well drained grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. The river which forms the boundary with townland of Sheepstown is 75m to S. Ringfort (WM008-067---) 375m to SE. Ringfort (WM008-068---) 330m to S. A raised oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 33m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank. The interior rises towards the centre. An earthen bank running NW-SE bisects the interior of the monument. In the NE quadrant are the remains of a hut site (WM008-066001-), and to the NE of this is a second hut site (WM008-06602-). A post-1837 field bank running NE-SW intersects the monument at W & SW where it forms part of the perimeter of the site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2017

• WM008-066001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on undulating well drained grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. The river which forms the boundary with townland of Sheepstown is 75m to S. Ringfort (WM008-067---) 375m to SE. Ringfort (WM008-068---) 330m to S. A hut site, visible as a rectangular shallow depression aligned NW-SE can be seen in the NE quadrant of a ringfort (WM008-066----). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2017

• WM008-066002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on undulating well drained grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. The river which forms the boundary with townland of Sheepstown is 75m to S. Ringfort (WM008-067---) 375m to SE. Ringfort (WM008-068---) 330m to S. In the NE quadrant of Ringfort (WM008-066---) on the NE side of a hut site (WM008-066001-) there is a second hut site, visible as a sub-rectangular shallow depression aligned NW-SE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2017

• WM009-002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 35) as following: ‘Low domed mound (Diam. 9.0m N-S x 8.3m E-W) with flattish summit, reaching a height of 0.8m at SE where highest over external ground level, with traces of a ditch and external bank on S and possibly SW sides. From the ASI account of 13/4/73, the bank and ditch appear to have been in far better condition forty years ago: This consists of a wide deep V-shaped circular fosse with a substantial bank of earth outside it. Inside the fosse is a circular almost flat-topped steep mound like feature. The site is so densely overgrown that it is difficult to judge whether or not some of the fosse material was thrown on to it. At present the almost flat top of the area inside the fosse would suggest that is it in fact a ring-barrow. [SMR file] Elsewhere its overall diameter is given as 22.5m [SMR file]. Although earthen in appearance, probing indicates that the mound contains much stone. Poaching has removed parts of edge of mound at N, W and SW, but a slight depression in its upper surface might indicate ransacking by treasure hunters, if not a collapsed cist. Probable ditch at S side of mound is 1.7m in width; bank beyond this is 1.5m in width and rises 0.26m above the ditch. On historic OS 25” map, ditch is shown as complete, and an external bank is depicted for NW quadrant. There is a sub-rectangular, tongue-like projection at E side of mound, 2.5m in length, 2.3m in width and up to 0.2m in height; there appears to be a corresponding projection at W side, 2.8m in length, 2.7m in width and 0.4m in height. It is unclear whether these are original features. This monument, which has had a preservation order since 1977 but is currently in very poor condition, is prominently positioned on a low glacial hill (kame) with good visibility to N and E, one of several in this undulating landscape of glacial drift, now under pasture, and is surrounded by a ring of pine trees planted not long before 1973 [SMR file]. About 750m to NW is a graveyard (WM018-045001-) with ruined medieval church (WM018-045----), which Leo Swan (1988, 11) identified as an early medieval ecclesiastical site on the grounds that the shape of the graveyard indicated the former presence of a diagnostic curvilinear enclosure (WM018-045002-) or vallum surrounding the site’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 5 February 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 22/1977).

• WM009-048 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  In 1647 a fine of £15 was levied on a group of mills in Co. Westmeath to pay Captain Ignatius Nugent of the Irish Confederate Army. The sum of 4s 8d. was levied on 'William Golding, or the same, same at Archerston [Archerstown] (Cal. S.P. Ire., 624). The corn mill depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on site of medieval mill which belonged to William Golding of Archerstown Castle (WM008-047----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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).

• Archerstown, Delvin8 sales

Name

Archerstown · Baile an Airsirigh

Area

3,378,506 m² (337.85 ha, 834.85 acres)

Civil parish

Castletowndelvin, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Clonarney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown, Geehanstown (Co. Meath), Kilgar, Mulliganstown, Scurlockstown, Sheepstown

Placenames

Archerstown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.