Carlanstown

186 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carlanstown, from 21 m² to 713,759 m² (71.38 ha, 176.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Carlanstown 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.

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  RETENTION of existing 1st floor attic conversion with rear dormer window, consisting of 2 no. bedrooms & 1 bathroom

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460200

• 15 Apr 2024N/a

  RETENTION of existing 1st floor attic conversion consisting of 2 no. bedrooms & 1 bathroom

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2460119

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a new single storey dwelling house adjacent to existing ground floor shed and first floor apartment building on site. Two buildings to act together as single dwelling. Insertion of three roof lights into said apartment. Provision of sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works. Conversion of ex. lean-to shed to garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186240

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of an extension of circa 182sqm to the north-western end of our existing house inclusive of all necessary ancillary site development works. The development also includes for the replacement of existing septic tank with a propriety waste water treatment system/percolation area to EPA standards and all necessary associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186024

• 20 Oct 2017Refused

  Ten year planning permission for a Wind Farm Development with a 30 year operational life (from date of commissioning of the entire wind farm) and all associated works. The proposed Development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. Wind Turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 No. on-site electrical substation (c) 1 No. temporary construction compound (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage (f) excavation of 1 No. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional Roads to facilitate turbine delivery (h) junction improvement works to facilitate turbine delivery, including providing hardsurfacing at the N4 in the vicinity of its junction with the L1927 Local road in the townland of Joanstown and the widening of the L1927 and L5828 junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works (including tree felling). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176292

• 9 Jun 2017N/a

  The proposed wind farm development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 no on-site electrical substation, (c) 1 no. temporary construction compound, (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation, (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage, (f) excavation of 1 no. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional roads to facilitate turbine delivery, including surfacing at the junction of the N4 and L1927 roads in the townland of Joanstown and widening of the L1927 and L5828 Junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works(including tree felling) An Environmental Impact Statement Report (EIAR)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natural Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176177

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Hill Of Mael And The Rock Of Curry 000681
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Bane 001721

Recorded monuments

• WM001-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground with commanding views to W. Raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone best preserved at NNE with traces of a shallow fosse visible from NNW-N-NNE with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4-4.5m) at NNE. The interior slopes slightly from the centre towards the bank on the E, N & W. The bank and scarp has a narrow disturbance gap on the ENE and another on the SW. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep gravel ridge with excellent views of undulating countryside to W and NW. Roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 16m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank best preserved from SSE-S-W elsewhere reduced to a scarp and shallow external fosse only visible from SSW-W with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.4-7m) at E. Traces of an external bank visible at SW only. The interior of the ringfort is relatively even sloping slightly from S-N. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-031 Bawn
  Description

  Carlanstown House and its adjoining farmyard are enclosed by the bawn wall of Carlanstown Castle. This Nugent castle appears to have consisted of a large 17th century bawn with four flanking gun-turrets with possible fortified house (WM001-031001-) standing in SW quadrant of bawn. In 1641 'Carolanstowne' Castle was the property of Robert Nugent who was listed as an 'Irish Papist' in the 1657 Down Survey map of Lickbla parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is depicted as a large castellated structure on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore Barony (ibid.). In 1864 George Victor Du Noyer sketched the bawn wall of Carlanstown Castle and drew up plans and elevation drawings of the angle towers (George Victor Du Noyer, “W face of Carlanstown Castle Co. W Meath. Sheet 1/3,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed November 20, 2017, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23489.). The collection of Du Noyer drawings of this castle are available online on the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland website (https://rsai.locloudhosting.net/collections/show/2). Only the W and N walls of the bawn survive intact with a short stretch of the N end of the E wall surviving. A large part of the interior of the bawn is now covered in post-1700 farm buildings belonging to Carlanstown House. Punch dressed stone belonging to the castle has been re-used in the fabric of the farm buildings standing inside the bawn. A modern slurry pit has been constructed a few metres N of the NW angle tower and a modern agricultural shed has been built up against the N wall of the bawn located off center to W. Present remains consist of a square shaped bawn (approx. int. dims. 50m N-S x 58m E-W) enclosed by stone wall originally defended by four circular-shaped corner towers of which two survive upstanding at NW and NE angles as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The angle towers possessed horizontal gun loops which provided flanking fire along the external face of the bawn wall. The larger NW angle tower (ext. diam. 4.5m; int. diam. 2.8m) is the best preserved and now stands two storeys high with mural stairs at ground floor giving access to spiral stairs at first floor level (Salter 2004, 246). This tower stands on a large protruding plinth and the ground floor has three horizontal gun-loops. The smaller NE angle tower was converted into a dovecote probably in the 18th century when a small circular shaped stone tower was built on top of the flanker. This NE angle tower has several horizontal gun-loops at ground floor level but the tower does not appear to have a protruding foundation plinth. The bawn wall protrudes out to form a semi-circular projection at the S end of the W wall of the bawn and close to a projecting chimney stack. Both of these features appear to belong to the fortified house or Carlanstown Castle (WM001-031001-) which stood in the SW angle of the bawn. The semi-circular shaped projection with gun-loops may have served as an angle tower for the fortified house. 19th century stables now run E off the semi-circular shaped tower. This projecting tower is depicted on the OS 25-inch map. No visible remains of the SE angle tower survive. The S wall of the bawn no longer survives upstanding with 19th century stables standing on line of this wall. Carlanstown House appears to have been built on or close to the line of the destroyed S wall of the bawn. Only a short section of the N end of the E wall (approx. L 12m) remains intact. The remaining section of the E wall of the bawn no longer survives with 19th century farm buildings standing in the area of the destroyed E wall. The bawn wall survives fully intact on the W and N sides, with only a short stretch of the N section of the E wall upstanding. A square-headed doorway on S side of bawn built into the stables with scroll brackets (WM001-031001-) has a date stone above. The scroll brackets possibly dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and may have come from Carlanstown Castle. Post-1700 farm buildings and farmyard occupies the S half of the bawn area. 19th-century Carlanstown House stands along the line of the destroyed S wall of the bawn. This house was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with projecting flat-roofed single-bay single-storey porch to centre of front façade (south). Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house. Later two-storey extension adjoining to the east. This structure probably replaced an earlier house or castle (WM001-031001-) on the same site and forms part of an impressive group of structures with the extensive remains of a sixteenth/seventeenth century fortified bawn to the rear (north) of the present structure (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled and revised by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 17 November 2017

• WM001-031001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Carlanstown House and its adjoining farmyard are enclosed by the bawn wall of Carlanstown Castle. In 1641 'Carolanstowne' Castle was the property of Robert Nugent who was listed as an 'Irish Papist' in the 1657 Down Survey map of Lickbla parish (NLI, MS, 723-4). The castle is depicted as a large castellated structure on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore Barony (ibid.). In 1864 George Victor Du Noyer sketched the bawn wall of Carlanstown Castle and drew up plans and elevation drawings of the angle towers (George Victor Du Noyer, “W face of Carlanstown Castle Co. W Meath. Sheet 1/3,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed November 20, 2017, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23489.). The collection of Du Noyer drawings of this castle are available online on the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland website (https://rsai.locloudhosting.net/collections/show/2). Described in 1826 as 'the ruins of Carlanstown, formerly the mansion of a distinguished branch of the Nugent family. Sir Thomas Nugent, founder of this distinguished line of his family, and the first of the Nugents seated at Carlanstown, was second and youngest son of Richard, seventh baron of Delvin, and brother of Christopher, eight baron of Delvin, progenitor of the Marquess of Westmeath' (Brewer 1826, 234). In 1837 the construction of Carlanstown House was described as a 'good farm-house has been built by the Duke of Buckingham on the site of the old mansion' (Lewis 1837). The 1813 date-stone now built into the S wall of the stables may be related to this building phase. Present remains consist of a square shaped bawn (WM001-031----) enclosed by stone wall originally defended by four circular-shaped corner towers of which two now survive upstanding at NW and NE angles. A square-headed doorway on W side of bawn with scroll brackets (WM001-031001-) which may date from the late 17th or early 18th century and may have come from Carlanstown Castle. A tall rectangular chimney stack projecting externally from the W wall of the bawn close to a semi-circular shaped tower at S end of W wall probably marks the location of the 17th century house which stood in the SW quadrant of the bawn. The chimney stack served a ground floor fireplace now obscured by farm buildings. The protruding chimney stack is clearly shown on Du Noyer's sketch of the wall dating from 1864 (George Victor Du Noyer, “W face of Carlanstown Castle Co. W Meath. Sheet 1/3,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed November 20, 2017, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23489.). To the N of the chimney stack the quoins of the NW angle of the house or castle may be seen rising above the top of the bawn wall immediately adjacent to a corrugated roofed farm outhouse. The semi-circular shaped tower at S end of W wall of bawn may have formed the SW angle of the fortified house and there may have been a gateway or entrance into the bawn immediately S of this semi-circular shaped tower. A horizontal gun loop in the ground floor of the semi-circular-shaped tower runs across into the adjoining section of bawn wall running S off tower which indicates that the bawn wall ran further S from the semi-circular shaped tower. Post-1700 farm buildings and farmyard occupies the S half of the bawn area. Carlanstown House stands along the line of the destroyed S wall of the bawn. Carlanstown House was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with projecting flat-roofed single-bay single-storey porch to centre of front façade (south). Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house. Later two-storey extension adjoining to the east. This structure probably replaced an earlier house or castle (WM001-031001-) on the same site and forms part of an impressive group of structures with the extensive remains of a sixteenth/seventeenth century fortified bawn to the rear (north) of the present structure (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 3 November 2016

• WM001-031002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Present remains consist of a square shaped area or bawn (WM001-031----) enclosed by stone wall originally defended by four circular-shaped corner towers of which only three now survive upstanding at SW, NW and NE angles. The interior of the bawn was entered through a gateway now destroyed on the E side. A square-headed doorway in S wall of stables built on the line of S wall of the bawn has two scroll brackets with date stone 1813, the brackets possibly dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and may have originally come from Carlanstown Castle. Post-1700 farm buildings and farmyard occupies the interior of the bawn. Carlanstown House a multi-period structure stands along the line of the destroyed S wall of the bawn. No visible remains of 17th-century Carlanstown Castle or fortified house which may have stood in the S half of the bawn (WM001-031----) where the post-1700 farm buildings now stand. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 17 November 2017

• WM001-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge on well drained pasture-land with good views to W & N, restricted views to E & S. The site is now covered in woodland as can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A roughly circular area (approx. diam. 41m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a substantial earthen bank, wide deep fosse, and external bank with causewayed entrance at NE. The external fosse may have been deepened in relatively modern times when the dry masonry was being built. The external bank has evidence of stone facing of post-1700 appearance which is clearly visible From E-S. From NE to SW there are the remains of a stone facing or wall lying on top of the defaced and flattened outer bank. The outer bank has remains of a berm on the inside and in places there are stones laid on edge on the outer lip of the inner fosse. The outer end of the entrance gap is closed or blocked by a stone wall of post-1700 date. The interior is uneven rising to the centre where the remains of a sub-circular house (WM001-032001-) can be seen. An L-shaped depression extending out from this structure may be the line of a souterrain (WM001-032003-). In the S sector there are remains of a smaller house or hut site of sub-circular plan (WM032002-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-032001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge on well drained pasture-land with good views to W & N, restricted views to E & S. The monument is covered in woodland as can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A low rise of ground in the centre of a ringfort (WM001-032----) represents the remains of a sub-circular house (diam. 7m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) with entrance gap (Wth 1.3m) at E. An L-shaped depression extending out from this structure may be the line of a souterrain (WM001-032003-). In the S sector of the ringfort (WM001-032----) there are remains of a smaller house or hut site of sub-circular plan (WM001-032002-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-032002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge on well drained pasture-land with good views to W & N, restricted views to E & S. The monument is covered in woodland as can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A low rise of ground in the centre of a ringfort (WM001-032----) represents the remains of a sub-circular house (WM001-032001-). An L-shaped depression extending out from this house site may be the line of a souterrain (WM001-032003-). In the S sector of the ringfort (WM001-032----) there are remains of a smaller house or hut site of sub-circular plan (diam. 5.8m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.5m). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-032003 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge on well drained pasture-land with good views to W & N, restricted views to E & S. The monument is covered in woodland as can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A low rise of ground in the centre of a ringfort (WM001-032----) represents the remains of a sub-circular house (WM001-032001-). An L-shaped depression (Wth 2.8m; D 1m) extending out from this house site at W may be the line of a souterrain (L of E-W section 8.3m; L of N-S section 8m). One arm of the L-shaped depression abuts the house on the W. The other arm of the L is parallel to the inside of the inner rath bank. There is a constriction in the middle of this arm. There may have been two beehive chambers. In the S sector of the ringfort (WM001-032----) there are remains of a smaller house or hut site of sub-circular plan. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-053 Burial ground
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in may 1969 human remains were discovered during clearing operations in advance of quarrying at a sandpit at Carlanstown, Finnea, Co. Westmeath (Cahill & Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 519-20). The remains were found on top of a sand hill which stood c. 30m high, at a depth of approximately 0.3m below the surface. The hill is known locally as Caltragh, and there was apparently a local tradition of a battle at the place. The site was reported to the Gardaí at Finnea, who informed the NMI. An investigation was carried out by Dr Joseph Raftery. The burials appeared to extend over the whole hill. It was not possible to ascertain the disposition of any of the skeletons as most of them had been disturbed prior to Raftery's visit. According to local information human remains had been found at the site for over 50 years, abd 45-50 years ago a plain gold finger ring was found with one burial. No artefacts were noticed on this occasion, and the human remains were not acquired. In 1971 a report was received stating that further remains had been discovered at the site, but the Gardaí were instructed to rebury the remains locally (NMI File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2010

• WM003-005 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise surrounded by gently undulating relatively low-lying land of poor to average pasture at the SW foot of the Rock of Curry. Modern forestry plantation nearby to the SW. Poorly drained land nearby to the SE & S. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork. Depicted as a small field with quarry or small pond in SE quadrant and not shown as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Of doubtful antiquity. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2016

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

Name

Carlanstown

Area

5,444,184 m² (544.42 ha, 1,345.29 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagross, Ballynameagh, Balrath, Bigwood, Castletown Lower, Castletown Upper, Clonrobert, Clonsura, Curry, Derrycrave, Newcastle

Placenames

Carlanstown 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.