Dundonnell

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundonnell, from 141 m² to 573,977 m² (57.4 ha, 141.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Dundonnell 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction of a new single storey extension to the west elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560308

• 3 Jun 2025N/a

  development which will consist of; A new single storey extension to the West side of the existing dwelling.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560277

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  Instream restoration of approximately 500m of the Buggaun River, to improve biodiversity and conservation for Brown Trout. Involves the introduction of spawning gravel, creation of holding pools, provision of fencing and drinking troughs. An NIS was prepared and is included in the planning documents

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460505

• 4 Dec 2024N/a

  instream restoration of approximately 500m of the Buggaun River, to improve biodiversity and conservation for Brown Trout. Involves the introduction of spawning gravel, creation of holding pools, provision of fencing and drinking troughs

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460463

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 Dundonnell.

Recorded monuments

• WM018-164 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained land. Small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 7m) defined by a fosse and external bank visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

• WM025-010 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in pasture. Annotated 'Dundonnell Castle' and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building with its long axis aligned NW-SE. A rectangular-shaped enclosure is shown running off S end of W wall of castle. On the 1837 map the castle appears to be standing in N corner of a rectangular-shaped enclosure which could represent the remains of a bawn (WM025-010001-). Castle described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. Earthworks clearly visible to the N of the castle appear to represent the remains of a field system. Linear earthwork to NE of castle and bawn probably represents the remains of a medieval roadway (WM025-010002-) leading into the castle and bawn. This sunken way defined by a two linear banks is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 03 September 2019

• WM025-010001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated in pasture which is surrounded by low-lying marshy ground to SE, S and W and which is overlooked by a low rise to N. Dundonnell Castle site (WM025-010----) stands in N quadrant of a subrectangular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 67m NW-SE x 62m NNE-SSW) defined by the remains of a substantial bank and fosse to NW, NE and SE and by a drain to SW. The interior is uneven with slight rises, low banks and the scant remains of some wall footings. The area to the N, E and SE is traversed by a series of banks and ditches which form a complex of enclosures adjoining the castle site. The remains of a possible medieval road (WM025-010002-) or sunken way is visible to NE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 03 September 2019

• WM025-010002 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Situated in pasture. Annotated 'Dundonnell Castle' (WM025-010----) and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped structure standing in N quadrant of rectangular shaped bawn (WM025-010002-) with roadway running from NE side of bawn towards present public road. This roadway (approx. L. 400m) is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph as a possible sunken way (approx. Wth 10m) flanked on either side by a low earth and stone bank which connects the castle with the public road to the NE. At the SW end of the roadway there are a series of smaller enclosures containing cultivation ridges of uncertain antiquity. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 03 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dundonnell.

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

Name

Dundonnell

Area

1,666,992 m² (166.7 ha, 411.92 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Churchtown electoral division: 362 people in 119 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynafearagh, Brottonstown, Brottonstown Little, Bryanstown, Churchtown, Jamestown, Nicholastown, Strattonstown

Placenames

Dundonnell 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.