Castletown Lower

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown Lower, from 743 m² to 523,055 m² (52.31 ha, 129.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Castletown Lower 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  construction of a 37m² extension to the north of the existing dressing rooms to accommodate a community room facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660075

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460482

• 20 Mar 2024N/a

  construction of a storey-an-a-half dwelling and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance and to install a septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460083

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  The development will consist of a new storey and a half dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22152

• 22 Feb 2022Conditional

  A single storey dwelling house with detached shed, with septic tank and percolation area with new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2275

• 6 Dec 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house with 16 solar panels and detached garage with septic tank and percolation area with new entrance with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21645

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  construction of walking track around the existing sports field with 19 no. 5m high lighting columns and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196201

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 Castletown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WM001-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated atop low natural hillock 130m E of Castletown Cottage. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Present remains consist of a natural oval-shaped hillock (approx. dims. 26m E-W; 20m N-S) the base of which is revetted by a low modern dry-stone wall. The low hill has been planted with trees and has the appearance of a post-1700 designed landscape feature associated with nearby Castletown Cottage. Possibly a ringfort modified as a tree-ring in the post 1700 period. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2016

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1840 and altered c.1900 and c.1950. Single-storey chancel (west) added c.1900. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and a wrought-iron cross finial to entrance gable (east). Transepts have been altered/pared, c.1950, so that the main roof continues as cat-slides. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over projecting dressed limestone plinth with projecting quoins to the corners. Pointed-arch window openings to the nave having cut stone surrounds with hoodmouldings over having multipane timber sliding sash windows with timber Y-tracery. Windows to transepts (north and south) originally matched nave openings but were truncated by twentieth century alterations. Triple-light pointed-arched window opening to entrance gable (east) with cut stone Geometric tracery having stained glass windows and cut stone hoodmoulding over. Triple-light pointed segmental-headed window to later chancel (west) having intersecting tracery and stained glass windows. Tudor Gothic-arched (four-centered) doorcase to centre of entrance gable having moulded cut-stone with hoodmoulding over having replacement timber double doors. Pointed-arched doorcases to east faces of transepts having cut stone surrounds and replacement timber doors with overlights above having Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Set back from road in own grounds and surrounded by graveyard with late-nineteenth and twentieth century grave markers. Freestanding cast-on belfry to the north. Parochial House (15400108) within grounds to north. Bounded on road frontage by rock-faced limestone plinth walls having cast-iron railings over. Ashlar limestone gate piers with incised cross motifs and decorative Gothic-style coping over to west having cast-iron double-gates, c.1900. Located adjacent to rural crossroads in quiet rural location to the southeast of Finnea.

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey parochial house, built c.1840, with projecting gable-fronted bays to either end (east and west). Pitched natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting plinth with 'belt buckle' quoins to the corners. Square-headed openings with rendered surrounds having projecting keystones over, now all having replacement windows. Tripartite/Wyatt fenestration pattern to projecting bays to either end. Central square-headed doorcase having rendered surround and replacement door having blocked overlight above. Set back from road in shared grounds with associated Roman Catholic chapel (15400107) to the south with freestanding cast-iron belfry adjacent to the west. Located adjacent to rural road junction approximately three kilometres to the southeast of Finnea.

• Castletown House, worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1820, with projecting single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the main façade (east). Now out of use and overgrown with ivy to the south. Associated with later house (15400116), which is set back and aligned along with this house to the north. Pitched natural slate roof with two central decorative chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots over. Constructed of rubble limestone with flush dressed limestone quoins to the corners and flush dressing to the window openings. Square-headed window openings having cut-stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows retaining internal timber shutters. Square-headed doorcase to front face of porch (east) having replacement glazed timber door with overlight above. Set back from road to the north of Castletown-Finnea. Main entrance to the east.

• Castletown House, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a central courtyard to the rear of Castletown Cottage (15400109), built c.1820. Now in use as a farmyard complex. Pitched natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar limestone dressings to the openings. Square-headed window and door openings and segmental-headed carriage arches with ashlar limestone voussoirs. Located to the north of Castletown-Finnea.

• Castletown House, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with projecting open single-bay open concrete Doric entrance porch to south end of entrance façade (east). Associated with earlier single-storey house (15400109), which is set forward from and aligned along with this house to the south. Hipped natural slate roof having two red brick chimneystacks towards the north end and an ashlar limestone chimneystack towards the south end. Lime rendered walls over rubble stone construction, now covered with ivy. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows above to the first floor. Square-headed doorcase, located towards the south, behind projecting porch having timber panelled door. Set back from road to the north of Castletown-Finnea. Main entrance to the east. Complex of outbuildings to the south (15400110).

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 moderately low, 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 Castletown Lower.

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

Name

Castletown Lower

Area

1,733,696 m² (173.37 ha, 428.41 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockarrow electoral division: 128 people in 49 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carlanstown, Castletown Upper, Derrycrave, Lisnugent, Togher

Placenames

Castletown Lower 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.