Conranstown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Conranstown, from 863 m² to 237,832 m² (23.78 ha, 58.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Conranstown 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.

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  retention and completion to demolish existing derelict structure on site. To construct one number dwelling house (241 sqm) and upgrade existing domestic entrance onto the public roadway. The installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works . The planning permission falls within the curtilage of a Protected Structure 025-030 NIAH 15 402534

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2138

• 4 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission to demolish derelict dwelling (78.7 sqm) and to construct one number dwelling house (241 sqm) and upgrade existing domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206307

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 Conranstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM025-093 Cist
  Description

  Situated in a farmyard. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1981 as no surface remains visible. According to Waddell (1970, 99) this is a Bronze Age burial consisting of a short rectangular cist (dims. 1m E-W x 0.63m N-S). It contained a portion of a disarticulated human skeleton which may represent a possible reburial. Two fragments of cremated bone were also found in this cist. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 12 September 2019

• WM025-135 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM025-136----) lies c. 65m to SE. A circular earthwork outlined by a scarp with a long L-shaped ruin in the interior , annotated 'fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Monument described in 1971 as an earthwork known locally as the ‘little fort’ which is located in the W corner of the field which contains ringfort (WM025-136----). According to local information this monument was levelled a number of years ago. The land has been drained recently and many small stones are scattered across the site. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 September 2019

• WM025-136 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Monument described in 1971 as a small, roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by the slight remains of an earth and stone bank with no visible trace of an external fosse. The site has been planted recently and the outer face of the bank has been faced with large stones and drystone masonry. No entrance feature visible. A conjoined house site (WM025-136001-) and the remains of a partition bank are visible within the interior. A field report from 1977 describes a segmental-shaped annex adjoining the exterior at SE. This in turn has a possible square-shaped earthwork adjoining to SE. See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 September 2019

• WM025-136001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. In ringfort (WM025-136----) are the stone foundations of a long rectangular-shaped conjoined house site. The southern house site is almost square-shaped and adjoins the interior of the ringfort bank at S. Conjoined to N is a long rectangular-shaped house site with an entrance in the centre of the E side. The remains of a short partition bank running N-S extend from the N corner and connect within the ringfort bank at N. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with return to rear (southwest). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cat slide roof over rear extension. Roughcast rendered finish to first floor and smooth rendered finish to ground floor with and raised rendered quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Iron bars to ground floor windows. Central round-headed doorway with moulded limestone architrave surround having keystone over. Glazed timber door with radial/spoke fanlight over. Located at angle of rural road junction with rendered boundary wall to the road frontage. Main entrance to the northeast having a pair of cut limestone gate piers, on octagonal plan having Tudor Revival-style capstones over, supporting a cast-iron gate. Complex of single and two-storey rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear (southwest) having mainly pitched roofs. Located to the south of Castletown Station.

• Castletown Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey former railway goods shed associated with Castletown Station to the northeast (15402530), built c.1851. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with raised cut limestone verges to either end. Constructed of rubble limestone with flush dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Shallow segmental-headed window openings having brick surrounds and the remains of cast-iron windows. Openings now mostly blocked. Random rubble boundary wall to the north.

• Castletown Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former railway station, built c.1851, with projecting gable-fronted bays to either end (southwest and northeast) and an open veranda supported on cast-iron posts to centre. Now in use as a private house. Single-storey former railway crossing guards house to the northwest, now part of private house, and a single-bay single-storey former storage shed/outbuilding to the southeast, connected to station by a ruled-and-line rendered wall. Modern uPVC porch to entrance bay to northwest elevation. Pitched natural slate roofs with two central rendered chimneystacks. Cut limestone coping to gables of projecting end bays. Constructed of brick over projecting ashlar limestone plinth with raised ashlar limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings set within round-headed recessed arches to each end bay having stone sills and replacement windows. Blocked square-headed opening to central bay on southwest elevation, overlooking track. Cut stone coping to platforms to either side of track. Located to the southeast of Loughanavally.

• Castletown Railway Station, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of level crossing gates, erected c.1851, formerly serving the Midland and Great Western Railway Company's Mullingar to Athlone line. Comprises timber beams with wire mesh having early cast-iron fittings, including a cast-iron lamp and cast-iron diagonal bracing bars. Pedestrian gates to either end. Located between random rubble retaining walls with large capping stones. Located to the northwest of Castletown Station, adjacent to signal box (15402532).

• Castletown Railway Station, signal box, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay two-storey signal box, built or rebuilt c.1925. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with decorative timber brackets to gable ends and a single red brick chimneystack to the centre, behind roof ridge. Constructed of machine-made brick to ground floor with timber cladding over to first floor observation level. Square-headed window openings to first floor with replacement windows and segmental-headed openings to ground floor openings having remains of cast-iron windows. Square-headed doorway with timber door. Stairs to first floor door opening now removed. Located adjacent to Castletown Station (15402530).

• Conranstown House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house and former dispensary, built c.1880, having canted bay windows to ground floor flanking central doorcase (southeast) and a two-bay two-storey extension to the southwest side. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and a pair of central rendered chimneystacks aligned parallel to roof ridge. Roughcast rendered walls with ruled-and-line rendered finish to canted bays. Square-headed window openings, painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Central round-headed doorcase with moulded architrave, timber panelled door with plain overlight. Two cut stone steps to front. Rendered rubble stone boundary wall to the west. Main entrance to southwest comprising four moulded rendered gate piers (on square-plan) joined by sections of rendered screen walling on quadrant plan. Inner piers support a pair of cast-iron gates. Pedestrian wrought-iron turnstile gate to west. Complex of single and two-storey rendered rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear (north) having pitched natural slate roofs, square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows and timber sheeted doors. Wrought-iron gates to site. Located adjacent to Castletown Station (15402530) and to the southeast of Loughanavally.

• Post box, 1901–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected between 1901-10, with raised "ER VII" royal cipher and raised crown motif. Set in rubble limestone pier, on circular plan, adjacent to the former Castletown Railway Station.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

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

Name

Conranstown

Area

909,885 m² (90.99 ha, 224.84 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownkindalen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Castletown, Glomerstown, Rathdrishoge, Redmondstown

Placenames

Conranstown 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.