Christianstown

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Christianstown, from 127 m² to 259,212 m² (25.92 ha, 64.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Christianstown 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.

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a bungalow and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance, to erect new site boundaries and to install a secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660425

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  Proposed change of use of an existing two-storey farm building to a two-bedroomed residential dwelling, including the carrying out of necessary repairs, refurbishment and modifications related to this change of use, to install a proprietary waste water treatment system and to carry out necessary ancillary site works & connections. The proposed works relate to a protected structure (RPS 008-032).

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560635

• 8 Feb 2023Conditional

  construction of (1) part two storey, part single storey dwelling (2) detached domestic garage (3) installing a soakpit and proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (4) making a new entrance onto the road (5) and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2317

• 18 Mar 2020Conditional

  construction of a new agricultural storage shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206066

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  to retain the works that have been constructed and complete the following, (1) convert attic to habitable space for the dwelling that has been granted under planning ref 17/6117 which is currently under construction and (2) all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186180

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  a private dwelling house, proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176117

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 Christianstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM008-009 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 38) as following: ‘Large, well-preserved and very impressive bowl-barrow (Diam. 36m N-S x 37.3m E-W), comprising a tall circular mound shaped like an upturned bowl (Diam. 16.5m N-S x 17.7m E-W), but its steeply sloping and straight to gently rounded sides and distinct rounded apex give it a nearly conical shape; the mound is surrounded by a circular ditch, outside which is a bank. The slope of the constructed mound is for the most part continued in the profile of the ditch, although it is unclear to what extent this effect is due to slip from the mound, particularly as the mound originally appears to have been kerbed (see below). On NE side mound reaches a height of 3m above base of ditch. The ASI account notes ‘slight terracing of the side of the mound – particularly on the NE-E – due to soil slip’ [SMR file]. Several boulders protrude from a similar level part way up the mound, at various points from SE-S-W, two being closely set near base of constructed part of mound, i.e. original ground level before ditch was dug. These seem to be remnants of a retaining kerb, although they appear to be slightly above rather than at base of constructed part of mound. Noting two of these, the ASI account dismisses them as ‘probably part of the make-up of the mound’ [SMR file], but the fact that they are at a similar height close to original ground-level suggests that this is a kerb. The broad, deep, flat-based ditch has widths of 5.1m (N), 4.8m (E), 5.1m (S), 4.2m (W); on SSE side where there are thorn trees, it has been severely poached by sheltering animals, and much very stony soil is exposed; some of the larger stones in the ditch, noted also by ASI fieldworkers [SMR file], are field clearance. The outer bank has a range of greatest widths similar to those for the ditch (4.6m (N), 5.9m (E), 3.8m (S), 4.5m (W)), although its flat top is only 1m across, and, where best preserved at E, it rises 1.3m over the ditch and 0.75m over external ground level. Where poaching has taken place, both mound and outer bank can be seen to be of very stony earth, the bank being particularly so on NE side; the ASI account similarly notes ‘a good deal of stone showing in the make up of the mound’, up to the level of its summit. the ASI account of 18/5/73 identifies it more confidently as a bowl-barrow [SMR file]. Barrow is located in pastureland on a low rise at end of a NW-SW ridge in undulating glacial drift, with poor visibility; about 90m to SSE is a kettle-hole lake, and a second such lake lies at a greater distance to NE. Barrow lies 1.2km to N of E end of Lough Lene and c. 2.75km to ESE of the early medieval monastery of Fore. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 5 February 2016

Architectural heritage

• Outbuilding, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1820, comprising two separate detached three-bay two-storey outbuildings (east and west) and a three-bay single-storey pig stile arranged about a central courtyard. Pitched natural slate roofs with brick eave courses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with brick dressings to a number of the openings. Square-headed window and door openings with timber louvers, timber sheeted doors/loading bays and a single timber casement window. Loop hole openings to a number of the buildings. Segmental-headed carriage arch to the south gable of the building to the east having modern timber double gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls having a pair of rubble limestone gate piers on circular plan to the south. Located to the north of Drumcree and adjacent to the north of a thatched house (15400817). Pair of wrought-iron bar gates located to the east side of the building forming eastern side of complex.

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).

No address of the register names Christianstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Christianstown

Area

1,345,514 m² (134.55 ha, 332.48 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary'S, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Fore East, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalasty And Ankersland, Cummerstown, Martinstown

Placenames

Christianstown 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.