Castlegaddery

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegaddery, from 52 m² to 154,418 m² (15.44 ha, 38.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Castlegaddery 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission is sought to bring the derelict dwelling back to habitable residential use. Permission is also sought to construct a split level, two storey extension (63.1sqm) to the rear of the derelict dwelling. Ground level consists of an office/snug area and the basement level consists of a kitchen, living and dining area. Permission is sought for the change of use of the existing domestic shed to habitable use, consisting of a utility room and W/C at basement level. Permission is also sought to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and install tertiary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660182

• 19 Feb 2026N/a

  to construct a split level, two storey extension (63.1sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling. Ground level consists of an office/snug area and the basement level consists of a kitchen, living and dining area. Permission is sought for the change of use of the existing domestic shed to habitable use, consisting of a utility room and W/C at basement level Permission is also sought to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and install tertiary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660059

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a split level, storey & half extension (63.1sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling. Ground level consists of an office/sung area and the basement level consists of a kitchen, living and dining area. Permission is sought for the change of use of the existing habitable shed to habitable use, consisting of a utility room and W/C at basement level. Permission is also sought to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and install tertiary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660023

• 23 Oct 2024Refused

  construction of 5 Glamping pods and partially convert shed to a kitchen area to include lobby, two w.c’s, seating area & kitchen area and to install a suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460405

• 20 Sept 2024Conditional

  renovate and extend existing derelict dwelling to include an extension on the front with a new porch, kitchen, dining, living area, stove with chimney, utility and w.c., and to construct a new roof with 3 bedrooms and one en-suite and wardrobe and install a treatment system with soil polishing filter with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460347

• 9 Feb 2024N/a

  renovation and extension of existing derelict dwelling to include an extension on the front with a new porch, kitchen, dining, living area, stove with chimney, utility and w.c., and to construct a new roof with 3 bedrooms and one en-suite and wardrobe and install a suitable Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460031

• 30 Jan 2024N/a

  renovation and extension to existing dwelling to include an extension on the front with a new porch, kitchen, dining, living area, stove with chimney, utility and w.c., and to construct a new roof with 3 bedrooms and one en-suite and wardrobe and install a suitable Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460026

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22297

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: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM010-017 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by undulating rushy grassland adjacent to the Royal Canal and 95m SW of Kiddy's Bridge. Ringfort (WM010-032----) 430m to SE. Present remains consist of a D-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 26m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank. This bank is visible from NE-S-NW. The N straight edge of this monument is formed by the tow path for the Royal Canal, which cuts through the N side of the earthwork. This earthwork is depicted as a house with adjoining field boundary on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and not as an antiquity. The earthwork probably represents the levelled remains of the post-1700 house and adjoining field boundary. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 June 2017

• WM010-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on low-lying grassland with restricted views. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-rectilinear shaped enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and as an irregular shaped field on subsequent editions of the OS maps. A field fence which formed the S side of this enclosure has been removed. The field fences which form the N, E & W enclosing element of the monument still survive today as field boundaries. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump-backed canal accommodation bridge over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of rubble limestone with ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Dressed limestone piers to ends of parapet walling. Cut stone plaques to each parapet, without inscription. Towpath runs under bridge to south. Located to the west of Ballynacarrigy.

• Kelly's Bridge, bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump-backed canal bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of dressed limestone with ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Cut stone piers to ends of parapet walling. Towpath runs under bridge to south. Located to the west of Ballynacarrigy and adjacent to canal lock (15401006) and lock keeper's house (15401007).

• 38th Lock, lock, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, built c.1810, consisting of pair of (restored) timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards, tail gates and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock channel. Located adjacent to Kelly's Bridge (15401005) and associated lock keeper's house (15401007). To the west of Ballynacarrigy.

• 38th Lock, lock keeper's house, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey canal lock keeper's house, built c.1810. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with projecting stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and a central rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls over rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed round-headed arches, with cut stone sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed doorcase to centre, set in round-headed recessed round-headed arch, having battened timber double doors. Located adjacent to lock 38 (15401006). Storage shed to the southwest.

• 37th Lock, lock, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, built c.1810, consisting of pair of (restored) timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards, tail gates and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock channel. Located adjacent to canal bridge (15401007). Associated lock keeper's house now demolished. Located to the west of Ballynacarrigy.

• Bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal accommodation bridge over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of dressed limestone with ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Cut stone piers to ends of parapet walling. Towpath runs under bridge to south. Located to the west of Ballynacarrigy and adjacent to lock 37 (15401008).

• Kiddy's Bridge, bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of coursed limestone with sections of rendered over having ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Cut stone piers to ends of parapet walling. Towpath runs under bridge to south. Located to the southwest of Ballynacarrigy.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlegaddery · Caisleán an Ghadraigh

Area

1,502,418 m² (150.24 ha, 371.26 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Emper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emper electoral division: 217 people in 82 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintue, Ballynacarrow, Churchtown, Lakingstown, Paddinstown Lower, Rathcaled

Placenames

Castlegaddery 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.