Crowinstown Great

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowinstown Great, from 38 m² to 664,174 m² (66.42 ha, 164.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Crowinstown Great 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.

• 7 Nov 2018Conditional

  retention of existing shed to rear of existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186335

• 24 Oct 2018N/a

  retention of existing shed to rear of existing dwelling.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 186319

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  a new milking parlour and dairy and associated meal bin and new holding yard and all ancillary site works, and retention permission for an existing slatted tank to be located in the new holding yard, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176190

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

• WM009-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a gentle but prominent natural rise with good views, surrounded by gently undulating grassland, overlooked by slightly higher ground to the SSW. The stream which marks the townland boundary with Crowinstown is 80m to N. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and wide slight external fosse. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) at SE. A large rectangular depression occupies most of the interior, and is probably the remains of a house site (WM009-040001-). The site has now been levelled and is visible only as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Annotated 'Raharoone' and depicted as a bivallate circular shaped ringfort on a late 18th century estate map (NLI MS 21 F. 48 (012) ). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 May 2017

• WM014-009 Burial ground
  Description

  Larkin's map of 1808 shows a ruin (WM014-009001-) in the graveyard of Crowinstown Great (SMR file). Present remains consist of a small semi-circular shaped graveyard enclosed from S-W, N & NNE by the remains of a low bank set on a scarp with a shallow external fosse at its foot. From NNE-E-S the graveyard is bounded by a stone wall with the roadway beyond it. The graveyard contains a number of 18th, 19th & 20th century memorials. In the N part of the interior there is a scatter of stones, however there is no definite trace of a wall footing of a building or possible church visible on the surface. The surrounding field has been under tillage & there is no trace of any earthworks here’ (ASI Field Report 28/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2009

• WM014-009001 Chapel
  Description

  Larkin's map of 1808 shows a ruin in the graveyard (WM014-009---) of Crowinstown Great (SMR file). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Castletown parish recorded that in 'Crowinstown there is the walls of a chappell of ease with a Corn Mill [WM014-011----] in repaire' (NLI Ms 723-4). Present remains consist of a small semi-circular shaped graveyard enclosed from S-W, N & NNE by the remains of a low bank set on a scarp with a shallow external fosse at its foot. From NNE-E-S the graveyard is bounded by a stone wall with the roadway beyond it. In the N quadrant of the graveyard there is a scatter of stones, however there is no definite trace of wall footing of a possible chapel visible on the surface. The surrounding field has been under tillage & there is no trace of any earthworks here’ (ASI Field Report 28/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018

• WM014-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat, well drained grassland. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with a wide intervening fosse and a shallow outer fosse. The inner bank is low, and there is a wide intervening space (approx. Wth 6m), between the inner fosse and low outer bank. There is an entrance gap in the inner bank at SE. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. Unusual monument which has the profile of a concentric enclosure rather than a classic bivallate ringfort. The flat berm between the inner platform and outer bank could be the result of post-1700 landscaping or might suggest a different classification. The presence of the berm and the low central platform might suggest the remains of some type of barrow but this is uncertain. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018

• WM014-011 Mill - corn
  Description

  The precise location of the corn mill in the townland of Crowinstown Great has not been identified. In 1647 a fine of £15 was levied on a group of mills in Co. Westmeath to pay Captain Ignatius Nugent of the Irish Confederate Army. The sum of 4s 8d. was levied on 'Moore in Creniston, or same, one mill' (Cal. S.P. Ire., 624). This mill is mentioned in the terrier of the 1659 Down Survey map of Castletown parish where it states that there was 'At Cronistowne there is the walles of a Chappell of Ease (WM014-009---) wth a Corn Mill in repaire' (NLI, MS 723-4). It is possible that the Corn Mill depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map stands on the site of the mill mentioned in the 1659 Down Survey. In 1982 the ASI recorded that there was 'no visible remains of a mill in this vicinity. The stream which is a tributary of the Stonyford River has recently been drained by the OPW' (SMR File 21/08/1982). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Crowinstown Great · Baile Croín Mór

Area

2,824,929 m² (282.49 ha, 698.06 acres)

Civil parish

Castletowndelvin, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 178 people in 64 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinn, Cavestown and Rosmead, Clonmaskill, Cockstown, Crowinstown Little, Loughanstown, Stonestown

Placenames

Crowinstown Great 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.