Brottonstown

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brottonstown, from 3,581 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres) to 734,135 m² (73.41 ha, 181.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Brottonstown 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 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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brottonstown.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Little Flower and Our Lady of Good Counsel, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic hall-type chapel, built c.1840 and renovated c.1955, comprising three-bay nave with a gabled single-bay entrance porch to east side, c.1840, and a modern single-bay porch to west end. Pitched natural slate roof having overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Carved stone cross finals above gables to either end. Raised verge to porch at east end of nave with cross finial over. Smooth rendered walls having raised 'belt bucket' quoins to corners of main building and to eastern porch. Projecting stone string course at eaves level to gable ends. Cut stone plaque to east gable end of main building ' dated 1840'. Pointed-arch window openings to nave having flush cut stone block-and-start surrounds, cut stone sills and leaded stained glass windows. Oculus window to east face of porch (east) having leaded stained glass window. Pointed arch door opening to north face of entrance porch to east with modern timber sheeted door. Tapered cement rendered bell tower, on square-plan, to east with open belfry sheltered by metal pyramidal roof. Rendered cross to front side (north) of belfry with rendered wall with balustrades to road-frontage. Wrought and cast-iron gates to west end of wall give access to grotto to Our Lady. Set back from road a short distance to the immediate south of the main Mullingar to Ballymahon road (north) and to the west of Mullingar Town.

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).

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

Name

Brottonstown · Baile an Bhrochtúnaigh

Area

855,590 m² (85.56 ha, 211.42 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Greenpark, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynafearagh, Brottonstown Little, Drumloose, Dundonnell, Glascarn

Placenames

Brottonstown 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.