Cumminstown

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cumminstown, from 113 m² to 361,654 m² (36.17 ha, 89.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Cumminstown 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 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660444

• 17 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186283

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 Cumminstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM011-042 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on NE facing slope of low rise in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular shaped enclosure with trees in the interior and annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS maps. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Visible as a circular shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 35m E-W) on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 June 2017

• WM011-043 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated atop natural hillock in grassland. Medieval castle of 'Cominstowne' is depicted standing atop a flat-topped hillock on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Moygoish barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is depicted on the Down Survey map of Kilbixy parish where it is shown standing on the lands of Robert Uriell who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). The terrier of Kilbixy parish map stated that the parish 'hath two castles one in Cominstown and another in Killbixy' (ibid.). Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a rectangular ruin and annotated as ‘Site of Old Castle’ in an area annotated as the ‘Castle Field’. Deserted medieval settlement earthworks (WM011-155----) 250m to NE. Townland boundary with Baronstown 75m to E. A levelled castle depicted as a square shaped structure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map standing in S quadrant of field known as the 'Castle Field'. The location of the castle on the subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps appears to be incorrect as the cartographers appear to have marked the castle site further to the W of the location marked on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A small square shaped area (approx. dims. 9m x 8m) defined by two grass-covered wall footings, one running E-W and another at right angles forming a roughly square shaped plan. A low scarp is visible to the E. This castle site is located immediately SE of a large circular enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 June 2017

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

Name

Cumminstown

Area

1,731,359 m² (173.14 ha, 427.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbixy, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Kilbixy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballallen, Ballycorkey, Ballynacarrigy, Bardanstown, Baronstown, Conlanstown, Moranstown, Rath

Placenames

Cumminstown 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.