Cloghanstown

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghanstown, from 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 429,301 m² (42.93 ha, 106.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Raharney, Westmeath · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloghanstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• WM021-006 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a ridge, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions and overlooking the valley of the River Deel to E. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as and depicted as a small, roughly circular-shaped mound (approx. overall diam. 18m) on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. The depiction of the monument on the OS 25-inch map suggests that this may have been the remains of a burial mound or possible barrow. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. The site was on the upper edge of a ravine which has been stripped of topsoil for the purpose of sand quarrying. There was a large quarry hole at the WNW end of the cleared area and visible in the face of this is the cross-section of a steep, flat-bottomed fosse. The fill consists of layers of fine silt with specks of charcoal and layers of rough gravel and large stones. Area of levelled monument is visible as a large quarry, on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

• WM021-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to SE, yet restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork indicated with a perforated line and planted, suggestive of a tree-ring. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular pennanular-shaped earthwork, open to E. Monument described in 1980 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 49m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a scarp and an external fosse. The scarp is well preserved from S-W-N-NE but it is low and faint from NE-E-SSE where it is only recognisable as a gentle rise in ground level. The remains of a narrow and fairly shallow fosse survive from SSW-SW-W-WNW. There is no sign of an entrance but it may have been at E where there is a natural slope upwards toward the perimeter. The interior rises quite sharply from the perimeter towards the centre, where there is a roughly level area. There are no features visible within. Outline of levelled monument is barely visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. It is possible that this may have been a ringfort that was reused as tree-ring in the post-1700 period. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

• WM021-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a small, steep hillock, immediately W of the River Deel, in gently undulating pasture which formed part of the floodplain of the river, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped bivallate enclosure (approx. dims. 37m N-S; 34m E-W). Monument described in 1980 as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is quite high and steep on the exterior, but has almost been reduced to a scarp; it is disturbed at N. A gap (Wth at top 14m; basal Wth 10.8m) at E may represent an entrance. A wide, shallow fosse is present from SE-S-NW and has been infilled from NW-E-SE. A low and broad outer bank is visible from SE-S-NW and has been levelled from NW-E-SE. There are traces of a low outer scarp beyond the outer bank from SE-S-W. The interior has a gentle NW-facing slope. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. A second possible monument which is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography was described in 1980 as following; Situated in the SW corner of a modern field, in low-lying, gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM021-010----) lies c. 75m to NE. Rectangular-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 15m NNW-SSE; 10m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a bank and a fosse. The earth and stone bank is low and is almost reduced to a scarp. The fosse is narrow and shallow along the SSE, WSW and NNW sides. There is a wider and deeper fosse along the ENE side of the monument, with a substantial earthen bank outside it. A gap in the ENE side, toward the SSE end may represent an entrance. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

• WM021-020 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on floodplain of the River Deel located immediately to E. Possible monument visible as a natural hillock defined by the remains of a scarp with possible house sites in E quadrant that are possibly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Riverview House, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached five-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c.1870, having a single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (east) and a single-storey box bay window to the south gable end. Hipped natural slate roof with red clay ridge tiles, a moulded red brick eaves cornice and cast-iron rainwater goods. Three moulded red brick chimneystacks, two to the centre of the main building and one to the return to the south. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with raised rendered block quoins to the corners and a rendered plat band below the eaves cornice. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window openings to porch. Segmental-headed doorway to the west face of porch having rendered reveals and a timber panelled door with overlight above. Main entrance gates to the east comprising red brick gate piers (on square-plan with decorative capstones having ball finials over) supporting wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by rendered walls with wrought-iron railings over. Single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan attached to the house to the west having roughcast rendered walls and a pitched natural slate roof.

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

Name

Cloghanstown

Area

446,146 m² (44.61 ha, 110.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Riverdale, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Grange Beg, Raharney, Raharney Little, Wardenstown

Placenames

Cloghanstown 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.