Cormaclew

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormaclew, from 1,108 m² to 116,574 m² (11.66 ha, 28.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Cormaclew 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, bored well and new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22575

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21475

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 Cormaclew.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views from NW-N-NE and restricted to S. Bivallate ringfort described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 34m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved from W-NW and the intervening fosse is visible from S-W-N-E, being disturbed from E-S. The outer bank is best preserved from SW-W and is disturbed from E-S. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and a house site (WM023-035001-) is visible in the W quadrant. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• WM023-035001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views from NW-N-NE and restricted to S. In W quadrant of ringfort (WM023-035----) are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped, sunken area (max. L 3m) defined by a low earth and stone bank (H 0.75m). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cormaclew.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cormaclew.

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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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

Name

Cormaclew

Area

791,353 m² (79.14 ha, 195.55 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Ardnagragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardnagragh electoral division: 494 people in 152 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagragh (Digby), Ardnagragh (Gray), Curraghbane, Drumraney, Dunnamona, Killeennanam, Streamstown

Placenames

Cormaclew on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.