Gilbertstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilbertstown, from 1,403 m² to 179,759 m² (17.98 ha, 44.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gilbertstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gilbertstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gilbertstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-106 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The medieval mills of Gilbertstown which belonged to Thomas Nugent may have been located in the area where the Corn & Tuck Mill are depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. In 1647 a fine of £15 was levied on a group of mills in Co. Westmeath to pay Captain Ignatius Nugent of the Irish Confederate Army. The sum of 9s 4d. was levied on 'Thomas Nugent, or same, two mills at Gilbertstown' (Cal. S.P. Ire., 624). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

• Gilbertstown Mills, mill (water), 1780–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former corn and woolen mill complex, built c.1800 and extended c.1840, comprising a five-bay three-storey mill building, c.1840, to the east and a number of two-storey ancillary structures, c.1800, on L-shaped plan to the west (across mill race), including a three-bay two-storey building which was probably the original mill building. Now derelict and out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting eave courses and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron roof lights to three-storey structure. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with flush quoins to corners having evidence of early lime render over. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills having remains of three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to three-storey building. Flush cut stone surrounds to earlier two-storey building having remains of diamond pane cast-iron windows. Square-headed doorcases with remains of timber sheeted doors. Square-headed doorcase having timber sheeted double doors and cut stone block and start surround with projecting keystone over to two-storey building. Remains of timber and cast-iron machinery, including remains of two waterwheels. Located to the north of Castlepollard and to the northwest of former mill owner's house (15400309).

• Bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched road bridge over River Glore, built c.1870. Constructed using coursed rock-faced limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs and rusticated coping over parapet. Located to the north of Castlepollard and adjacent to Gilbertstown Mills (west).

• Gilbertstown House, miller's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey miller's house, built c.1830, associated with Gilbertstown Mills (15400308) to the northwest. Now in use as a private dwelling. Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings having replacement windows. Central round-headed doorcase having flush block-and-start surround. Replacement door with sidelights and replacement spoke fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds with outbuildings to the rear (southeast) and cast-iron railings to the front (northwest).

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

Name

Gilbertstown

Area

762,961 m² (76.3 ha, 188.53 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Fore West, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Lickbla, Martinstown, Millcastle, Rathcreevagh, Rathgarve, Robinstown, Robinstown Upper

Placenames

Gilbertstown 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.