# Cannonsfield, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Brawny, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 75,229 m² (7.52 ha, 18.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 836 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): S5 Community, Educational & Institutional, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. Mary's, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/st-marys.md - Barony: Brawny - Electoral division: Athlone East Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Athlone East Urban electoral division: 4,811 people in 1,982 households; 46% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/50715 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230303 - Centre: latitude 53.424757, longitude -7.925254 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cannonsfield, from 148 m² to 909 m²; 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5494128: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5494128.md - Parcel 3880065: 836 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3880065.md - Parcel 5160675: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160675.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - S5 Community, Educational & Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath; 8 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=469 - R2 Established Residential (Existing residential): ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=467 - M2 Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area): ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=470 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=472 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 24 Oct 2023, Westmeath County Council 2360361: Conditional. Permission. development which will consists of the proposed renovation and extension of the existing Marist College (Garrow House & Our Lady’s Hermitage - Protected Structure Reg. Ref. 149, NIAH No. 15008008) to provide 28 no. apartments. The extensions will include new stairwells, lift core with connecting corridors to the rear of the Protected Structure. The rear outbuildings/structures will be demolished and the rear extension to the Garrow House will be part demolished with the remainder renovated to provide a cycle & bin store. The application will also include the construction of a new three storey apartment block to the rear of the site incorporating 27 no. apartments and a community rooms. The development will also consist of provision of new footpaths and roads within the site including amendments to the existing internal road & front entrance access, the installation of new services & drainage with associated hard & soft landscaping, boundary walls & fencing, siteworks, cycle & bin stores, ESB substation & meter rooms and car parking. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360361/0 - 26 Jan 2021, Westmeath County Council 2130: Conditional. Retention. Retention permission for development. The development consists of 1) change of use of gym, fitness and storage rooms into classrooms 2) external changes to elevations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2130/0 - 29 Jul 2020, Westmeath County Council 207113: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 1) Retention permission relating to change of use of gym block first floor storage area into classroom 2) Permission to retain and complete the construction of two classrooms at first floor of gym block to include internal layout works by provision of walls, floors and ceilings and external changes to east elevation by provision of windows and also to south elevation to accommodate exit door, alterations to external stairs and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/207113/0 - 12 Feb 2020, Westmeath County Council 207026: Conditional. Permission. Repair of fire damage to "Cannonsfield", Lower Road, Athlone, a Protected Structure (Record of Protected Structures, Athlone Town Development Plan 2014-2020, reference no.149). The work will consist of the following: Replacing roof with timber structure and stone slates; reinstatement of the ornamental facing; replacement cast metal gutters and downpipes; repair of external walls with lime and sand rendering; replacement timber sliding sash windows; replacement front door; floors of timber joists and timber boarding; plasterboard ceiling to roof; (the interior will be left in shell form). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/207026/0 - 18 Dec 2019, Westmeath County Council 197257: N/a. Permission. Repair of fire damage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197257/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cannonsfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cannonsfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Marist College, school, house, 1810–1950, Regional interest, registry number 15008008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15008008. Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1810, having an enclosed single-bay single-storey porch to the entrance front. Converted to secondary school, c.1900, with fourteen-bay three-storey over basement extension added to the southeast. Three two-bay breakfronts added to extension c.1943. Hipped natural slate roof with wide eaves and rendered chimneystacks to original building, pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to extension. Cement rendered walls with raised cement quoins to corners of extension. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows, round-headed window to projecting porch. Square-headed doorcases with replacement doors to original building, square-headed doorcases to breakfronts of extension with rendered surrounds with overlights above. Set back from road in extensive landscaped school grounds with various late twentieth-century extensions to rear. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1610, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1610.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cannonsfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cannonsfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cannonsfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cannonsfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghacocara: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/aghacocara.md - Loughanaskin: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/loughanaskin.md - Retreat: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/retreat.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cannonsfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/cannonsfield