# Doon, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickbla, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,316,082 m² (131.61 ha, 325.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,535 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickbla, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/lickbla.md - Barony: Fore - Electoral division: Glore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glore electoral division: 186 people in 67 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51199 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230574 - Centre: latitude 53.731741, longitude -7.375711 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doon, from 63 m² to 508,137 m² (50.81 ha, 125.56 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 132503: 508,137 m² (50.81 ha, 125.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132503.md - Parcel 132469: 340,527 m² (34.05 ha, 84.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132469.md - Parcel 131315: 148,948 m² (14.89 ha, 36.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131315.md - Parcel 132477: 131,105 m² (13.11 ha, 32.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132477.md - Parcel 109310: 108,273 m² (10.83 ha, 26.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109310.md - Parcel 216628: 24,610 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216628.md - Parcel 131519: 24,369 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131519.md - Parcel 105159: 22,702 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105159.md - Parcel 5157784: 4,697 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157784.md - Parcel 4635607: 4,135 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635607.md - Parcel 217491: 3,806 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/217491.md - Parcel 105156: 1,460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/105156.md - Parcel 5157785: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157785.md - Parcel 6152425: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6152425.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Doon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 20 Oct 2017, Westmeath County Council 176292: Refused. Permission. Ten year planning permission for a Wind Farm Development with a 30 year operational life (from date of commissioning of the entire wind farm) and all associated works. The proposed Development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. Wind Turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 No. on-site electrical substation (c) 1 No. temporary construction compound (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage (f) excavation of 1 No. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional Roads to facilitate turbine delivery (h) junction improvement works to facilitate turbine delivery, including providing hardsurfacing at the N4 in the vicinity of its junction with the L1927 Local road in the townland of Joanstown and the widening of the L1927 and L5828 junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works (including tree felling). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176292/0 - 9 Jun 2017, Westmeath County Council 176177: N/a. Permission. The proposed wind farm development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 no on-site electrical substation, (c) 1 no. temporary construction compound, (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation, (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage, (f) excavation of 1 no. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional roads to facilitate turbine delivery, including surfacing at the junction of the N4 and L1927 roads in the townland of Joanstown and widening of the L1927 and L5828 Junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works(including tree felling) An Environmental Impact Statement Report (EIAR)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natural Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176177/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doon. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doon. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Doon. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Doon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Camagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/camagh-230300.md - Clonsura: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonsura.md - Coolcraff (Co. Longford): https://everytownland.com/longford/coolcraff.md - Lickny: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lickny.md - Monktown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/monktown.md - Newcastle: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/newcastle-231045.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/doon