Clonteens

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonteens, from 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 16,735 m² (1.67 ha, 4.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonteens 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.

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  development which will consist of the use of an existing agricultural track and private road on the Tullynally Castle grounds which accesses onto the local road L1826, as a temporary construction access route for the construction of a solar farm development previously permitted under Planning Ref. No. 17/6361 (and revised under Planning Ref. No. 23/60223 and Planning Ref. No. 23/60222). The proposed development also comprises minor localised widening of the private road and track, the provision of 3 no. pairs of temporary passing bays within existing verges on the L1826 for the period of construction, and the reinstatement of the verges on completion of construction. The proposed construction access route will be used in lieu of a temporary construction access track previously permitted under Planning Ref. 17/6161, through an agricultural field to connect to the existing entrance to Tullynally Castle grounds from the R395. Tullynally Castle is a Protected Structure.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560053

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 Clonteens.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonteens.

Architectural heritage

• Fifty Pence House, gate lodge, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1815, having canted front elevation (north) and a two-storey rear elevation (south). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with wide overhanging eaves with decorative timber fascia to front elevation (north), cast-iron rainwater goods and a single rendered chimneystack to the centre. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and multi-pane timber casement windows to front elevation. Square-headed window openings to rear having variety of window types, including a single surviving cast-iron diamond pane window to the southeast corner and multi-pane timber casements. Square-headed doorcase to centre of entrance elevation having timber sheeted double doors. Cut granite steps to front. Sited at corner of rural road junction and set back from road in own grounds with rubble stone outbuildings to the rear (south) and adjoining to the east. Bounded on road frontage by rubble limestone wall having a wrought-iron bar gate to the front (north). Located to the south of Tullynally Castle (15400321) and across the road (south) from former rear entrance to castle grounds having wrought-iron turnstile gate.

• Clonteen Bridge, bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched road bridge over Yellow River, built c.1875. Constructed using coursed rock-faced limestone rubble with rock-faced limestone voussoirs and rusticated coping over parapet. Located to the southwest of Castlepollard.

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

Name

Clonteens · Na Cluaintíní

Area

237,041 m² (23.7 ha, 58.57 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Coolure, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Kiltoom, Kinturk Demesne, Pakenhamhall Or Tullynally, Portjack, Templanstown

Placenames

Clonteens 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.