Gallstown

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallstown, from 28 m² to 389,625 m² (38.96 ha, 96.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Gallstown 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 2023Conditional

  development which comprises of a new 6.2m single storey extension to existing dwelling, consisting of a bedroom, sitting room and shower room along with an upgraded treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360183

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance, to erect site boundaries and for permission to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system with associated soil polishing filter and for all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2361

• 24 Feb 2023Refused

  retention and change of use of the following structures on site: 1. Retain the internal configurations (changes to the internal structure) to the existing shed. Permission is also sought to change the use of part of the existing shed (northwest) to an habitable accommodation (69.5sqm). 2. Permission is sought to retain the use of the existing sheds to the southeast of the site, which consist of an office (116.7sqm), a domestic storage unit (118.8sqm) and stables (37.7sqm). 3. Permission is sought to remove the existing mobile home (39sqm) to the northwest existing building from the site. 4. Permission is also sought to retain the existing entrance onto the public road and all associated site works at the above address

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2360043

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling with detached garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2315

• 24 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construction of milking parlour and dairy building, cubicle shed, underground slurry storage tanks, silage slab and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21145

• 10 Mar 2021Conditional

  Planning permission for a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site servies

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21115

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  replacement and relocation of the septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196282

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a new two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto existing laneway, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176159

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 Gallstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-020 Castle - motte
  Description

  On level pasture with good views in all directions. Located on the demesne lands of Gallstown House depicted in 1837 as Castletown House which is located 160m to the NE. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this mound is depicted as a circular grove of trees located amongst the landscaped demesne of Castletown House. This map suggests that the mound was either re-used as a landscape feature on the demesne or that it was created as a landscape feature in the post-1700 landscaping of the demesne. Present remains consist of a large flat-topped steep sided mound of earth composed mainly of earth with small stones. The sides of the mound have been defaced by animals which has exposed the core of the mound. The remains of a livestock track can be seen encircling the mound just above the base. There are no signs of a fosse or bailey associated with the mound. The summit (diam. 8m N-S; 10m E-W) of the mound is flat with no sign of any features on its summit. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2013

• WM033-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise of ground in gently undulating pasture. Gallstown church (WM033-072----) and graveyard (WM033-072001-) located 465m to the W. Raised roughly circular area (diam. 33m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp and wide shallow external fosse visible from SE-S-W-N. No entrance feature visible. A rectangular silage pit (Wth 12.5m; D 1m) has been constructed in the E quadrant of the ringfort that has resulted in the destruction of the E side of the monument. The exposed section of the ringfort interior, revealed by the construction of the silage pit show that the interior of the monument has been artificially raised above the level of the pre-ringfort ground level. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 July 2013

• WM033-072 Church
  Description

  Church and graveyard (WM033-072001-) located on the demesne lands of Gallstown House located 690m to the NNE. Described in 1980 as the ruins of a rectangular church (dims. 18.3m E-W; 8m N-S) running NE-SW. Only the SE and SW walls survive upstanding. Only the grass-covered wall footings of the other walls can be seen. There are two large broken out window opes in the SE wall. A tall square tower survives at the SW end of the church as depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map. The tower is built onto the external face of the SW wall of the church and is covered in ivy making the structure impossible to examine. The tower probably the remains of a bell tower appears to be post-1700 in date while the church appears to be pre-1700, possibly dating from the 17th century. There is nothing visible in the upstanding fabric to suggest that this church is medieval in date. The church stands in the centre of a long narrow rectangular-shaped graveyard (WM033-072001-). According to the local famer who lives 'The Cottage' the belltower on the SW end of the church collapsed c. 2011. Today only a section of the ivy-covered SE wall (L c. 11.5m; H c. 3.7m) of the church survives upstanding, the tower and the gable wall of the church at the SW end have collapsed and a pile of rubble marks this end of the church. Lower courses of a short section of the NE gable wall survives (H c. 1m). The church was impossible to examine due to the dense cover of vegetation and trees growing all over the site of the church ruins. A single broken out window (Wth 1.75m) is visible in the centre of the upstanding section of the SE wall. The cut stone voussoirs and other cut stones visible in the mound of rubble at the SW end of the church belonging to the collapsed belltower display stone dressing of 19th century date. This belltower was probably added on to the SW end of the church in the 19th century. On the 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map the church is depicted as a long rectangular building aligned SW-NE with square shaped belltower at SW end. On this map all of the walls of the church are shown upstanding except for the NW wall and the N end of the NE gable which are not depicted. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map the church building with belltower is depicted as a completely intact upstanding structure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2013

• WM033-072001 Graveyard
  Description

  Long narrow rectangular-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 86m NE-SE; 34m NW-SE) aligned on a NE-SW axis that is enclosed by a wall that is post-1700 in date. The graveyard is located on the demesne lands of Gallstown House located 690m to the NNE. The ruins of a church (WM033-072----) can be seen in the centre of the graveyard. The graveyard contains memorials of post-1700 date and is entered through a gateway located at the W end of the S wall of the graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Gallstown.

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

Name

Gallstown

Area

3,588,114 m² (358.81 ha, 886.64 acres)

Civil parish

Pass Of Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Gaybrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gaybrook electoral division: 436 people in 133 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellfield Or Brannockstown, Corcloon, Drumman, Gibbonstown, Gortumly, Mahonstown, Milltown, Windmill Or Blackislands

Placenames

Gallstown 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.