Brottonstown Little

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brottonstown Little, from 121,486 m² (12.15 ha, 30.02 acres) to 123,687 m² (12.37 ha, 30.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Brottonstown Little 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Brottonstown Little in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Brottonstown Little.

Recorded monuments

• WM018-126 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure aligned NNE-SSW annotated ‘Castle’. Levelled castle described in 1978 as only the grass-covered wall footings survive of a rectangular-shaped building (18m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE). Some large stones and boulders are visible in the remains of the walls (H 0.5-1m). There is a gap midway along the NW wall and a second gap at the SW end of the SE side. There is a small rectangular annex (dims. 8m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) or tower projecting out mid-way along the SE side, this may have been a tower for a staircase to give access to a first floor level There is slight trace of a separate wall footing which runs parallel to the main structure, c. 3m to NW. There is no obvious trace of any surrounding earthworks. Old cultivation ridges running NE-SW are visible in the surrounding fields. The wall footing of a long, rectangular structure (dims. 10m N-S; 4m E-W) lies to SW of the main building, which may be the remains of some form a garden boundary feature. The slight remains of an annex (dims. 4m E-W; 3m N-S) adjoin the northern end. A low bank with the remains of a wall footing at S enclose a small area adjoining the W side of the structure. The site does not resemble the remains of tower house and may be the remains of a 16th-17th century fortified T-plan house. No castle is depicted in this townland of on the 17th century Down Survey map of Mullingar parish (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of Brottonstown Little belonged to Alexander Hope who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). Levelled castle is visible as the outline of a rectangular structure on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached sketch plan of levelled house. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

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 Brottonstown Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Brottonstown Little · Baile an Bhrochtúnaigh Beag

Area

245,055 m² (24.51 ha, 60.55 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Greenpark, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynafearagh, Brottonstown, Drumloose, Dundonnell, Strattonstown, Tuitestown

Placenames

Brottonstown Little 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.