Baskin Low

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baskin Low, from 363 m² to 318,212 m² (31.82 ha, 78.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Baskin Low 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.

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct a two-storey side extension onto existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22342

• 5 Aug 2020Refused

  Construction of a single storey shed. The shed is for agricultural use only. The application will also include all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207116

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 Baskin Low.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-041 Burial mound
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted as a small mound on the revised ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 11.3m E-W; 9.8m N-S) defined by a light coloured band of vegetation visible as a cropmark. The interior has a very slight E-facing slope. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Possible site of levelled burial mound based on OS map designation. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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.

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.

No address of the register names Baskin Low with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Baskin Low

Area

2,604,294 m² (260.43 ha, 643.54 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Drumraney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumraney electoral division: 261 people in 89 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalone, Baskin High, Bleachlawn, Carricknagower, Cartroncoragh, Drumraney, Gortmore, Harrystown, Kilcornan, Milltown

Placenames

Baskin Low 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.