Gainestown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gainestown, from 1,609 m² to 274,624 m² (27.46 ha, 67.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gainestown 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.

• 2 Sept 2024Conditional

  construction of a garage with carport with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460315

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of a four bed bungalow, domestic garage, onsite waste water treatment system, and a road to access the site

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360338

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  construction of a new 4 bedroom dormer bungalow with detached garage and onsite effluent treatment system and percolation area. Works will also consist of all associated drainage, landscaping and site works including new entrance.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186323

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 Gainestown.

Recorded monuments

• WM026-106 Font (present location)
  Description

  Font (WM026-003003-) now located inside W porch of R. C. church at Gainestown, 2.65km SSE of Lynn Church (WM026-003----) and graveyard (WM026-003001-) where the font originally stood. Moved from Lynn graveyard in 1954 and placed inside the porch of Gainestown Church by Fr. Finian O'Conor. Cogan (1867, 452) recorded in 1867 that a 'fine old font of the church [Lynn] is in the cemetery; the bowl is circular, and measures one foot ten inches (0.56m) in diameter'. Described by Roe (1968, 118-9) as a 'most remarkable creation and one which well may be unique. Square and massive, the vessel is cut from a single stone (dims. H 0.72m x Wth 0.66m), into three stages, each decreasing in width from the top down. To merge with the middle section (Wth 0.55m x H 0.15m) the under part of the top stage (Wth 0.65m x H 0.29m) is carved as a gentle concave curve while instead of being formed as a simple cube, the lowest part (Wth 0.42m x H 0.27m) has its angles shaped to give a convex profile. The basin (diam. 0.56m x D 0.19m; rim T. 0.05m) is flat-bottomed without a drain'. The R. C. Church at Gainestown was reputedly built with stones taken from Catherinestown Castle (WM026-124----) in 1853. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 January 2018

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

Name

Gainestown · Baile Ghéin

Area

694,180 m² (69.42 ha, 171.54 acres)

Civil parish

Lynn, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Belvidere, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Catherinestown, Gaybrook Demesne, Glendevine, Gorteen, Tullanisky, Tyrrellstown

Placenames

Gainestown 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.