Blackmiles

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackmiles, from 5,886 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres) to 175,505 m² (17.55 ha, 43.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Blackmiles 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.

• 12 May 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION for the construction of a storey & half dwelling (285.7 sqm) with attached open domestic garage (32.4 sqm) and new domestic entrance onto the public road. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2614

• 24 Apr 2026Refused

  RETENTION permission is sought for the change of use of an existing residential site to a commercial yard for the parking and storage of heavy-duty vehicles and agricultural machinery. The proposed development will facilitate the parking of a maximum of two lorries and trailers, along with tractors and ancillary agricultural machinery, together with all associated site development works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660207

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  continuance of use of the existing quarry and associated processing previously permitted under P. Ref. 98/1235 (ABP PL25.113179) and P. Ref. 04/5530 (ABP PL25.212150) within an application area of c. 14.2 hectares and for a period of 8 years to allow the previously permitted rock extraction be completed. The appropriate period of planning register reference 04/5530 was extended by order dated 18/01/2018. The development proposed seeks to utilise existing permitted ancillary buildings and facilities including weighbridge, wheelwash, portacabin office/canteen/toilet, proprietary effluent treatment system, carpark facilities, overburden and screening mounds, and all other associated site works and ancillary activities. Final restoration works to be carried out over a 2 year period following final rock extraction to give overall development life of 10 years. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22449

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a storey & half dwelling (285.7 sqm) with attached open domestic garage (32.4 sqm) and new domestic entrance onto the public road. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206306

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 Blackmiles.

Recorded monuments

• WM012-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on rising grassland overlooked by higher ground from E-W. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide deep external fosse. The bank has been steepened from E-S-SW where it is intersected by a field fence which forms the townland boundary with Galmoylestown Lower. The perimeter of the monument has been quarried away at NW. The interior slopes from NE-SW and has traces of cultivation ridges. There is an entrance gap at SW (Wth 1.75m). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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

Name

Blackmiles

Area

605,506 m² (60.55 ha, 149.62 acres)

Civil parish

Stonehall, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Stonehall, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Galmoylestown Lower, Galmoylestown Upper, Knockbody, Larkinstown, Martinstown, Stonehall

Placenames

Blackmiles 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.