Burgesland

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burgesland, from 1,529 m² to 153,715 m² (15.37 ha, 37.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Burgesland 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 Burgesland 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 Burgesland.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burgesland.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay house on L-shaped plan, built c.1850, with single-bay single-storey glazed timber porch with pocketed corrugated-cement roof having overhanging bracketed eaves to the south facing elevation and a later shopfront, c.1900, to west facing elevation. Hipped natural slate roofs with overhanging bracketed eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with raised clock quoins/strip to the corners. Square-headed window openings with moulded architraves having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed doorcase to front face of projecting porch (south) having glazed timber double doors. Segmental-headed doorcase with sidelights behind glazed timber porch. Set back from road in own grounds with garden to south. West side is road-fronted. Three-bay shopfront to west, c.1870. having central square-headed doorcase with timber panelled door having overlight above, flanked to the north and south by fixed pane display windows over tall stall risers. Cement rendered pilasters support cement rendered fascia over. Shop no longer in use. Later two-bay two-storey gable-fronted building adjoining to north, c.1870, having overhanging bracketed eaves, square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered quoins to corners. Located towards the centre of Street Village.

• Post box, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1910, with 'Post Office' in raised lettering to the letter flap. No cipher or insignia. Makers name appears at base in raised lettering ' T. Allen & Co. London '. Built into wall of Fiddler's Green Pub towards the north end of Streete Village.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Burgesland.

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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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

Name

Burgesland

Area

556,060 m² (55.61 ha, 137.41 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Street, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Street electoral division: 268 people in 109 households; 85% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barradrum, Cornacausk, Dunamon, Fearmore, Kilmore, Tinode

Placenames

Burgesland 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.