Gigginstown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gigginstown, from 804 m² to 826,444 m² (82.64 ha, 204.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gigginstown 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.

• 14 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling with detached domestic garage & install a wastewater treatment system and peculation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460479

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  installation of solar panels onto the existing agricultural building roof structure (consisting of 196 no. modules, total of roof segment 13 m in width and total 47.32 m in length)and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22427

• 18 Jan 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a two storey 68sqm extension to the existing office and dressing room to the west elevation, modifications to the east elevation to include an external glazed screen to the family kitchen, general conservation works and ancillary works internally, ancillary site works in connection with the works. The property and its curtilage is a protected structure.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2114

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  existing stables as constructed on site and permission to continue and complete a slatted cattle shed with external dungstead and all associated site works.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 196218

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a dormer type extension to existing dwelling containing dual garage, boiler and service room to ground floor and storage area to 1st floor, permission is also sought to construct a sunroom to eastern gable and to construct a detached fuel store and to upgrade existing entrance to public road, retention permission is sought to retain existing 1st floor element consisting of storage loft and storage area and two dormer windows and all associated site works at Clackstown, Collinstown, Co. Westmeath.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176213

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 Gigginstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM013-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a wide ridge with good views of the surrounding grassland. The road which marks the townland boundary with Clondalever lies 30m to NW. Ringfort (WM013-024---) 360m to SE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank with an entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW. The perimeter has been dug into in the NW quadrant. Some low mounds of stone are visible at the centre of the interior, which slopes gently from the centre towards WSW. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 April 2018

• WM013-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small hillock in grassland, surrounded by higher land on all sides. Ringfort (WM013-022---) 360m to NW. The site has been substantially levelled. All that is visible now is the arc of a poorly preserved earth and stone bank with shallow external fosse, curving from NE-E-S-SW. Elsewhere the enclosing element of the monument has been levelled. No monument is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and only the curving arc of the enclosing feature is depicted on revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 April 2018

Architectural heritage

• Gigginstown House, house, 1853–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1854, with projecting single-bay pedimented breakfront and a projecting single-storey ashlar limestone Doric porch to centre of entrance front (south). Shallow hipped natural slate roof with heavy ashlar limestone eaves cornice and two centrally located moulded ashlar limestone chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots over. Rendered walls with strip pilasters to corners of main building and to breakfront. Projecting ashlar limestone plinth to base. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorcase, behind projecting Doric porch, with timber panelled door. Doorcase flanked by timber sash windows/sidelights with margin glazing and reached by flight of cut limestone steps. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the northwest of Delvin. Complex of single and two-storey rubble limestone outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs to rear (north). Main entrance gates (15401303) and attendant gate lodge (15401302) to the south.

• Gigginstown House, gate lodge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate-lodge on complex plan, built c.1854, with projecting single-bay pedimented porch with Doric columns to centre of main façade (east). Now in use as a private dwelling. Single-bay pedimented projections to east and west ends of side elevations (north and south). Pitched slate roofs with bracketed eaves and a single ashlar limestone chimneystack to centre of entrance front (east). Rendered walls over projecting plinth with ashlar limestone detailing, including verges to pediments and Doric columns to main and north and south facades. Round-headed window openings to entrance façade and to projecting porch (east) with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows elsewhere (north and south). Square-headed doorcase to projecting porch (east) with architraved surround and replacement timber panelled door. Located adjacent to main gates to Gigginstown House (15401303).

• Gigginstown House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1853–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Gigginstown House, erected c.1854, comprising two central tapered/pylon-style ashlar limestone gate piers, on square-plan with carved and pedimented ashlar limestone capstones over, with associated cast-iron double-gates. Central gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by three ashlar limestone piers on square-plan with round heads, linked by sections of ashlar limestone plinth walling with cast-iron railings over. Entrance gates terminated by sections of screen walling with tapered gate piers on square-plan with pyramidal limestone coping over. Located to the south of Gigginstown House adjacent to attendant gate lodge (15401302).

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

Name

Gigginstown

Area

2,286,873 m² (228.69 ha, 565.1 acres)

Civil parish

Killulagh, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balreagh, Clondalever, Fennor, Glackstown, Jeffrystown, Rickardstown

Placenames

Gigginstown 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.