Culvin
Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 131452
- Area
- 282,041 m² (28.2 ha, 69.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 820 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Culvin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM006-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise in gently undulating pasture land with good views in all directions. Ring-barrow (WM006-002---) 420m to W. A roughly circular area (diam. 45m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a slight fosse from E-S. The outer bank and external fosse are intersected at NE by a post-1700 field fence running NW-SE. The slightly raised interior has traces of cultivation ridges running N-S across the monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 156.9 ha
- 388 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 10,797 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culvin, from 411 m² to 320,661 m² (32.07 ha, 79.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Culvin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 May 2025Conditional
constructing a milking parlour, dairy, a slatted collection yard with slurry holding tank underneath, plus construction of an underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2517
22 Aug 2018Conditional
private dwelling house, proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186253
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Culvin.
Recorded monuments
- WM006-078 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Situated on poorly drained grassland with stream immediately to N and NE, Rath House 300m to WSW and Rath School 130m to NW. Ringfort (WM006-003----) 340m to W. The stream to N marks the townland boundary with Barradrum and the road to W marks the townland boundary with Rath. Outline of large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 70m N-S) defined by a scarp and fosse which is partially waterlogged at SW, clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The outline of this large enclosure is also visible on earlier OSI aerial photographs. Remains of a large enclosure that is too big to be classified as a ringfort. Drainage earthworks visible in field to S and W Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien with details kindly provided by Hugh Carey Date of upload: 26 September 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Culvin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Culvin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Culvin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Culvin
- Area
- 1,569,423 m² (156.94 ha, 387.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Street, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Street, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Street electoral division: 268 people in 109 households; 85% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Culvin 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.