Castlelost West

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelost West, from 292 m² to 386,525 m² (38.65 ha, 95.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlelost West 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.

• 23 Apr 2026Conditional

  To construct one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage, to create a new entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a pumped tertiary wastewater treatment system with coco filter and infiltration bed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660197

• 18 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage, to connect to public watermain and to install a pumped tertiary wastewater treatment system with infiltration bed, permission is also sought to upgrade existing entrance to public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560630

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  the construction of a two storey farmhouse, one general purpose farm shed, one on-site wastewater treatment system with percolation area, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560378

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction of one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage, to construct new entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a pumped tertiary wastewater treatment system with coco filter and raised infiltration bed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560289

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  development which will consist of revisions to a previously granted permission under Planning Ref No. 22/362 and will include the following: Revised design of dwelling and increase in floor area from 200.7sq.m to 242.9sq.m and all associated ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560244

• 4 May 2023Refused

  construction of a one number detached storey and a half type dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to create new entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a mini treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360117

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  construction of a bungalow dwelling & attached domestic garage (200.7sqm) and to facilitate a new domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22362

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new part single storey, part storey and a half dwelling house containing two independent living units, detached single storey garage and new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21495

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a part two storey/part single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage and store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196065

• 10 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186277

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  retention & completion of horse stables, fodder/bedding store, tack room and waste disposal system.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 186202

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 Castlelost West.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a small flat-topped hillock with good views in all directions except to WSW and W. The ruins of a country house marked as Heathfield are located 120m to the SE. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. A roughly oval-shaped earthwork is depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. On the OS Fair Plan map the monument is annotated as a 'fort'. Monument depicted on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Castlelost West townland (WCL/M/BBE/23). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 July 2013.

• WM033-032 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a low rise of dry ground on marshy land, with restricted views of the surrounding countryside. Monument visited in 1971 and revisited in 1978 and described as a small circular area (dims. 7.3m NNW-SSE; 6.6m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a slight earthen bank (base Wth 2.4m; top Wth 0.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) with a narrow shallow external fosse (top Wth 1.3m; ext. D 0.25m). No entrance feature visible. A large stone is visible lying in the fosse at ESE. Not indicated on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but depicted as a small barrow type monument on the revised 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as 'Knocknakill'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 July 2013

• WM033-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with good views to the N. Monument depicted on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Castlelost West townland (WCL/M/BBE/23). Roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 44m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank best preserved from SE-S-W-N-NNE with external fosse only visible from S-W-N. No entrance feature visible. The enclosing bank and fosse are best preserved at S while both have been removed from NE-E-SE. This section of the enclosing element of the ringfort is located in tillage as visible on the 2005 OSI aerial photographs. The remainder of the monument is upstanding and is located in pasture. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• WM033-044 Earthwork
  Description

  No visible surface remains of earthwork depicted on Larkin's map of County Westmeath dating from 1808 (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2013

• WM033-075 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 07 May 2019

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

Name

Castlelost West · Caisleán Loiste Thiar

Area

2,183,173 m² (218.32 ha, 539.47 acres)

Civil parish

Castlelost, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Clonfad, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Castlelost, Clontytallon, Kilbrennan, Kilbride, Oldtown, Piercetown

Placenames

Castlelost West 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.