Farthingstown

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farthingstown, from 368 m² to 256,074 m² (25.61 ha, 63.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Farthingstown 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.

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey detached dwelling, detached garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, proposed entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560262

• 20 May 2025N/a

  construction of a single storey detached dwelling, detached garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, proposed entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560249

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 Farthingstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-078 Castle - tower house
  Description

  No surface remains visible of Farthingstown Castle which is depicted on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Rathconrath parish (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map a tower house type structure is depicted standing on lands in the possession of Richard Dalton, listed as an 'Irish Papist' in 1641 (ibid.). Modern rubble built cairn built around a large tree stump is all that survives where castle site is marked on the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 October 2016

• WM017-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in undulating pasture with extensive views to N, E and W, which are inhibited to ESE, where overlooked by a steep hill. Depicted as a substantial roughly circular-shaped earthwork on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a modified, slightly irregular or oval-shaped earthwork on the revised 1913 OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as a bivallate ringfort consisting of an oval-shaped area (dims. 45m NE-SW; 33.5m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a bank, intervening fosse and a low outer bank. A gap (Wth 3.2m) in the inner bank at SE may represent an entrance. This is defined by large stones set on edge which could be the remains of a stone revetment. The low, narrow inner bank is of earth and stone and has largely been reduced to a scarp N-E-S-SW. It has the remains of an internal stone facing from NNE-E where it has the appearance of a wall footing. The narrow, shallow fosse and remains of a low outer bank only survive for a short stretch from SSW-SW-W and at E. The fosse and outer bank are replaced by a narrow berm-like feature from SSE-S-SSW. A modern field fence running NE-SW truncates the fosse and outer bank from NW-N-NNE. The interior is uneven and rises irregularly from the perimeter towards the centre. The remains of a possible house site (WM017-102001-) is visible in SW quadrant. There is a large disturbance depression just outside the perimeter at NW. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. A large pond lies c. 10m to SE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 09 January 2019

• WM017-102001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise, in undulating pasture. Within SW quadrant of ringfort (WM017-102----) a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 6.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S) enclosed by the poorly preserved remains of earth and stone banks. These incorporate rock outcrop and have been disturbed by deposits of field clearance stones in places. The interior has an almost square-cut base suggesting a house site. The remains of an earthen bank (L 11.6m; Wth 0.8m) incorporating some large stones set on end, extends from the NE corner of the house site to the perimeter of the ringfort interior at NNW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 09 January 2019

• WM017-120 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Outline of ring-barrow possible (overall diam. 48m) consisting of a small circular mound enclosed by an inner fosse, low bank, fosse and traces of an outer bank visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. The monument is intersected at W by a field boundary which curves out forming part of the enclosing element of the possible barrow. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Farthingstown.

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

Name

Farthingstown

Area

1,137,203 m² (113.72 ha, 281.01 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymorin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymorin electoral division: 389 people in 126 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard, Ballinlug, Ballymorin, Ballynacarrow, Cleggarnagh, Corr, Loughan, Parcellstown

Placenames

Farthingstown 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.