Galmoylestown Upper

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galmoylestown Upper, from 74 m² to 256,040 m² (25.6 ha, 63.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Galmoylestown Upper 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Refused

  development which will consist of the construction of a single-storey detached dwelling, installation of wastewater treatment system, ecoflo coco filter & gravel distribution bed, proposed entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660206

• 31 Oct 2025Refused

  the construction of a single-storey detached dwelling, installation of wastewater treatment system, ecoflo coco filter & gravel distribution bed, proposed entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560533

• 22 Sept 2024Conditional

  construction of a new one and a half story dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460349

• 22 Sept 2024Conditional

  development consisting of an educational play centre with sensory rooms, coffee shop, pet farm, outdoor play area, astroturf area, fairy walk, car parking, upgrade site entrance, sewage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460350

• 4 May 2024Refused

  construction of a new one and a half story dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460151

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey domestic dwelling including treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186118

• 3 Jan 2017N/a

  Demolish a utility room and construct an extension comprised of a porch with a floor area of 9.75 sq.m to the south west elevation, (b) construct an extension comprised of 2 no. bedrooms and an en-suite with a floor area of 36.00 sq.m to the north west elevation (c) demolish a chimney and construct a new chimney stack on the south east elevation (d) vary site boundaries and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176001

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 Galmoylestown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WM012-039 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a small terrace on the SW face of a hill in grassland with good views to the SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’. A gravel pit is shown in the interior of the site on the S side on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible of levelled site. The levelled monument is visible as a very faint crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 February 2018

• WM012-040 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on the summit at the SE end of a ridge. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan maps as a circular enclosure that is annotated as ‘fort’. This monument has been levelled, and is now visible only as a raised scarp (approx. diam. 33m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a wide deep fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.25m). Traces of broad cultivation ridges are visible running ENE-WSW across the interior. A field fence running NW-SE which forms the townland boundary with Martinstown intersects the perimeter of the monument from NE-E. The levelled monument is visible as a crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 February 2018

• WM012-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a broad steep hill in grassland, with extensive views of the surrounding hilly countryside. Trivallate ringfort known locally as ‘Rathmore’. Remains consist of a large sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 47m N-S; 50m E-W) enclosed by three large earthen banks and two intervening fosses. The inner bank is best preserved from ESE-S, and is fragmentary and almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The inner fosse is wide and steep, with suggestions of a low bank on its outer edge. Beyond this is a wide berm, which varies in width, but is widest at E, and is enclosed by a large earthen bank and external fosse. The outermost bank has been levelled from S-W-N. There is an entrance gap (Wth inner bank 3.5m; Wth middle bank 2.7m; Wth outer bank 3.7m) through the banks with corresponding causeway (Wth varying from 2.5m-3.7m) across the fosses at ESE. The interior rises towards the centre. There is evidence of quarrying on the perimeter at E, where part of the berm and outer bank have been quarried away. A field boundary running NE-SW intersects the monument at N. Outline of monument and its multivallate nature is clearly visible on aerial photographs taken in 1968 and 1970 (CUCAP AVO055/BDV071-072). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 February 2018

• WM012-055 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on gentle SSE facing slope near the top of a prominent hill in grassland, with extensive views of the surrounding countryside. Ringfort (WM012-113----) 200m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’. This site has been levelled. All that remains is a semi-circular shaped depression, which corresponds to that depicted on the 1944 ed. OS 6-inch revision map. Outline of levelled monument visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 February 2018

• WM012-113 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on gentle SSE facing slope of a high prominent hill with good views to NE, E, S and W. Earthwork (WM012-055----) 200m to NW. Poorly preserved almost completely levelled monument consisting of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 41m) defined by the slightest remains of an enclosing fosse. A concave depression in S quadrant of interior represents the remains of an old quarry. Cropmark of levelled ringfort visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Galmoylestown Upper.

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

Name

Galmoylestown Upper

Area

1,566,981 m² (156.7 ha, 387.21 acres)

Civil parish

Stonehall, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Stonehall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stonehall electoral division: 236 people in 80 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackmiles, Galmoylestown Lower, Garrysallagh, Kilmaglish, Martinstown, Parsonstown

Placenames

Galmoylestown Upper 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.