Cooksborough

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooksborough, from 101 m² to 454,050 m² (45.4 ha, 112.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Cooksborough 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.

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  permission to construct 01 No. dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & percolating area and all associated Site works at Cooksborough, Cloghan Mullingar, Co Westmeath.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660394

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460337

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION for development which will consist of one dormer bungalow, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works at the above address

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360136

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  retention permission for existing development as constructed, containing existing dwelling and garage and all associated site works, previously granted under planning ref 79/289. Permission is sought to convert existing single storey garage into a two bedroom annex and to contact same to existing dwelling via a proposed shared utility room, permission is also sought to construct a detached single storey fuel store and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21215

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  construction of a new storey and a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, use of existing vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196188

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: Wooddown Bog SAC 002205
• Natural Heritage Area: Wooddown Bog NHA 000694

Recorded monuments

• WM019-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, directly overlooking swampy ground to SSE, good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork (approx. dims. 33m N-S; 29m E-W). Monument described in 1972 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an earthen bank, fosse, and external bank, a wide gap (Wth at top 9.5m; basal Wth 4.5m) at SE may mark the entrance. The inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2.3m; max. Wth 2.5m) is best preserved from NE-E-ESE and from SSE-S-SSW and is barely traceable elsewhere. The U-shaped fosse and the outer bank are visible from NW-N-NNE. The end of the outer bank has been modified at NNE to form a modern bank. A recent pile of stones has been deposited against the scarp at E and at SE. The interior has a general NNW-facing slope. Monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a circular-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 June 2019

• WM019-097 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 29m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 20/11/2005 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020

• WM019-098 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Partial outline of large circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 130m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 20/11/2005 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020

• WM020-026 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 47) as following: ‘Roughly circular, elegantly dome-shaped mound (Diam. 12.6m N-S x 12.3m E-W) with flattish summit, reaching a height of 1.9m above ground level at N side; although the ASI account of 11/3/70 claims the site is ‘probably a bowl barrow’ [SMR file], there is no clear evidence for a ditch except for vague and doubtful traces on N side. Mound appears to be very stony under the sod but it is unclear whether it is a cairn or simply made of stony earth. A tree grows on N side of mound and a thorn tree on its S side, and the ASI in 11/3/70 documented a blackthorn hedge at its foot of the mound from S-W, the remnants of a square fence depicted on OS 6” map [SMR file] Barrow is strikingly situated near N edge of flat summit of very prominent glacial hillock which is stepped at its lower levels, with ground dropping down most sharply to E; it overlooks a stream to N. This is one of a group of five barrows spread over three townlands on either side of the stream, including two other mound-barrows (WM020-027----; WM020-028---), now destroyed, which also lay on hillocks across the stream c. 200m to NE, but again overlooking it; and two ring-barrows (WM020-142----, c. 120m to NNE; No. 14, c. 90m to NNW), much closer to the stream in the once-flooded area at the foot of the hillocks; when flooded, the hillock on which the present site is located rose dramatically from the flooded area to N (pers. comm. landowner)’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 8 February 2016

• WM020-031 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The precise location of Moygullin Castle has not been identified. The castle is depicted on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Rathconnell parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 October 2016

• WM020-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in relatively low-lying and gently undulating rough, wet pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork with a laneway abutting to NE. Monument described in 1970 as a small D-shaped area (dims. 31m E-W; 29.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse. The bank (Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) has almost been reduced to a scarp. A portion of the bank has been removed from NNE-E-ESE, possibly when a laneway was constructed to NE. There are traces of a fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not visible. The interior has several slight natural humps and hollows. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 July 2019

• WM020-143 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 48-9) as following: ‘Small, mostly well-preserved and previously unrecorded ring-barrow, sub-circular or almost D-shaped (Diam. 16.2m N-S x 14.2m E-W), comprising a sub-circular mound with steep sides and flattish upper surface (Diam. (base) 6.60m N-S x 7.20m E-W; Diam. (upper surface) 4.10m N-S x 3.90m E-W), surrounded by a ditch and external bank. Mound rises 0.62-0.66m above ditch at SW, W and N. At S, bank rises 0.67m over base of ditch and 0.26m over external ground level. Where best preserved at NW, bank is 2.3m in width, and here the ditch is 2.1m in width. On NE half of upper surface of central mound are two large limestone boulders with prominent solution hollows, the larger 1.5m across, the smaller 0.95m across; another two boulders, the larger 1.2m across, the second far smaller, lie at the junction of mound and ditch on E side, and a further example, 1.15m across, lies on crest of outer bank at W; a group of boulders generally of much smaller size, not shown on plan, lie in ditch and on inner slope of bank at NW. At NE side the ditch is not visible, creating a kind of causeway; here the bank is greatly reduced in size, being no higher than line of ditch, and appears to straighten out for c. 8m, giving the monument an approximately D-shape. The straight edge to the barrow here, defined by a low scarp, runs NW-SE and continues as a scarp, broken in places and apparently natural, to SE and, from aerial photographs, apparently, also for some distance to NW, and seems to demarcate the once-marshy ground adjoining the stream, which was formerly flooded, including this monument, within living memory. Monument lies 102m to SW of a NW-SE flowing stream. It is one of a cemetery of five barrows spread over three townlands: immediately across stream c. 65m to ENE, in Cloghanumera townland, is a second ring-barrow (WM020-142----); visible on a prominent hillock on same side of stream c. 90m to SSE, is a mound-barrow (WM020-026----); and across stream c. 160m and more to NE were two further mound barrows, now destroyed (WM020-027----; WM020-028----). It is notable that while there are many local heights all round, this and the other ring-barrow (WM020-142----) have been deliberately placed in low-lying locations, the present site at least having been formerly under water (pers. comm. landowner)’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 8 February 2016

• WM020-150 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of ring-ditch (approx. diam. 9m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 20/11/2005 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Cooksborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cooksborough · Maigh gCuilinn

Area

3,725,053 m² (372.51 ha, 920.48 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Castledown, Cloghanumera, Clonickilvant, Killynan (cooke), Macetown, Mountrobert, Wooddown

Placenames

Cooksborough 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.