Gartlandstown

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gartlandstown, from 117 m² to 771,085 m² (77.11 ha, 190.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gartlandstown 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of 3 No.single storey short stay units for tourism purposes comprising one 3-bed (129.15sqm of gross floor space and 5400mm high), one 2-bed (of 110sqm of gross floor space and 5400mm high) and one 1-bed (56.40sqm of gross floor space and 5502mm high) units with pitched roofs; landscaping works to include realigned driveway linked to existing vehicular entrance, 7No. car park spaces within landscaped forecourt; drainage treatment system and percolation area to service new units; and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460382

• 16 Jun 2023Refused

  A ten-year planning permission for a solar energy development with a total site area of 87 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical inverters; (iii) electrical power stations; (iv) underground electrical and communications cabling; (v) containerised battery energy storage facility; (vi) the upgrade of 1 no. existing site entrance and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vii) on-site access tracks; (viii) a temporary construction compound; (ix) security fencing and security gates; (x) pole-mounted security cameras; and (xi) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360178

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a new storey and a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22269

• 29 Nov 2021Refused

  to construct a new storey and a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21629

• 18 Nov 2019Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, livestock handling facilities, livestock waiting yard and an underground slatted soiled water tank. Construction of 2 no agricultural buildings to include livestock cubicles, straw bedding area and underground slatted slurry tank. Construction of 2 no. Silage pits and dungstead. Construction of a roof over existing feed passage joining the existing straw bedding house with the existing slatted house. Construction of an overground slurry store. Construction of a livestock underpass and pre-cast soiled water tank. Alterations to existing agricultural entrance. Erection of a meal bin and water storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196316

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Derravaragh SPA 004043
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684

Recorded monuments

• WM007-097 Chapel
  Description

  Situated on rising ground in an area of good pasture-land on the boundary between Gartlandstown and Ranahinch. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Chapel-in ruins’ standing inside a rectangular shaped enclosure. Present remains consist of a much overgrown site covered with trees and bushes. Only the grass covered wall footings survive of the chapel (dims. 17m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) dedicated to St. Eoin (The Schools’ Collection, Vol. 0719, p. 613), standing in N quadrant of a rectangular shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. No traces of headstones or burial markers inside this enclosure. Possible penal chapel of 17th or 18th century date. According to local folklore the church known as 'St. Eoin's Chapel' was believed to be three hundred years old and that 'it was built at the time the Catholic people of Ireland were being persecuted for the faith. Near hand the church there is a holy well' (The Schools’ Collection, Vol. 0719, p. 613). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 April 2017

• WM007-098 Quarry
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground with good views from N-E-SE. Chapel (WM007-097----) 200m to N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an irregular-shaped earthwork or what would appears to be the remains of a quarry hole associated with a gravel pit depicted at S edge of depression. Non-antiquity, remains of a quarry hole associated with gravel extraction of post-1700 date. No surface remains visible of feature depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 April 2017

• WM012-006 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland, 300m E of Lough Derravaragh. Roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 50m) defined by a scarp depicted on OSi 25-inch map. Outline of levelled earthwork visible as a low rise of ground on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

• WM012-007 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland. Circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp and ditch with possible annexe to W as depicted on the OSi 25-inch map. Outline of levelled earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

• WM012-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on undulating grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-circular shaped enclosure annotated ‘fort’. Earthwork (WM012-014----) 400m to NE. At the time of an ASI site visit in 1970 the monument was in the process of being levelled as part of land reclamation works. A sub-circular shaped area (diam. 27.8m ENE-WSW; 26.9m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank (max. H 1m; Wth 5.7m) with entrance gap at ENE (Wth 2m). The interior had a general slope from E-W with a slight rise towards the centre. This site is now visible as a slight crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in gently undulating grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. Earthwork (WM012-007----) 100m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-rectilinear shaped enclosure in the SE corner of a field, annotated ‘fort’ with a gravel pit in the SW quadrant. On this map the enclosing bank was depicted as upstanding from SW-W-N-NNE, elsewhere it was intersected by a field boundary from NE-E-S-SW. This site has been almost completely levelled. Originally it consisted of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank from SW-W-N-NE, and a shallow external fosse. The bank has been modified to form a field fence, and elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-012 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval shaped enclosure annotated ‘fort’. Ringfort (WM012-011----) 400m to NW. Earthwork (WM012-013---) 250m to SSW. Situated on a prominent hillock in undulating grassland. No surface remains visible of this levelled monument. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• WM012-013 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS six-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped tree-plantation immediately S of the avenue leading to Gartlandstown House located 170m to the NW. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS six-inch map. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the monument is depicted as a roughly semi-circular shaped earthwork intersected from E to S by a field boundary running NE-SW across SE quadrant of earthwork. Situated on top of a prominent gently rising hill in undulating grass-land on the demesne lands of Gartlandstown House with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM012-012---) 250m to NNE. In 1972 the site was described as an enclosure (approx. diam. 36.5m) almost completely levelled. All that survives are the poorly preserved arc of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m), curving from NE-E-S-SSW, which represents the field boundary depicted on the current ed. OS six-inch map. No visible remains of enclosing element of monument from SSW-W-N-NNE that is depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible of any enclosing element on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. It is possible that this earthwork may have been a designed landscape feature of post-1700 date associated with the landscaping of the demesne of Gartlandstown House. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on SW facing slope of hillock in undulating grassland with good views of Lough Derravaragh to NW. Gartlandstown House lies 390m to N. Ringfort (WM012-010----) 400m to SW, earthwork (WM012-013----) 340m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small roughly circular-shaped enclosure planted with trees, annotated as a ‘fort’. Described in 1972 as a monument that has been almost completely levelled. All that survived are the poorly preserved remains of a raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 29m E-W) which marks the site of the levelled 'fort'. No surface remains visible of monument on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock in grassland, overlooking poorly drained land to the S that is now planted with forestry, and wide views from N-E-S. Ringfort (WM012-016----) lies 200m to E. This natural hillock was scarped to form a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 23m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scarp with no trace of a bank and faint traces of a fosse visible from S-W. The interior slopes steeply from N-S. There are vague suggestions of a ramped-entrance (Wth 3m) at S. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM012-214 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Outline of a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 33m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Emmet Byrnes Date of upload: 28 January 2019

Architectural heritage

• Gartlandstown Stud, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with modern single-storey extensions to east and west sides. Hipped natural slate roof having two rendered chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots. Rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with strip architraves, cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings. Central round-headed doorcase with cut stone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Set back from road in extensive grounds with rubble limestone boundary wall to front (south) and collection of contemporary rubble stone outbuildings to rear (north). Gateways to the southeast and southwest of the house, comprising pairs of roughly dressed limestone gate piers (on square plan) with pyramidal cut stone copping over and iron double-gates.

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).

No address of the register names Gartlandstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Gartlandstown · Baile an Gheartlúnaigh

Area

4,107,917 m² (410.79 ha, 1,015.09 acres)

Civil parish

Faughalstown, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Derrynagarragh, Froghanstown, Ranahinch, Streamstown, Taghmon, Tuitestown

Placenames

Gartlandstown 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.