Gneevestown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gneevestown, from 217 m² to 60,013 m² (6 ha, 14.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gneevestown 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.

• 10 Jun 2022Conditional

  extension onto existing residence consisting of private swimming pool, sauna, steam room, gym, changing facilities, plant room and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22314

• 15 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no two storey dwelling, garage, septic tank and percolation area and a new entrance onto road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177026

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 Gneevestown.

Recorded monuments

• WM025-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N side of a gentle rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive view to NNW and views restricted by higher ground elsewhere. Monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 22m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with possible entrance gap (Wth at top 4.9m; basal Wth 1.8m) at E. No visible trace of an external fosse. The bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m; Wth at top 0.5m; basal Wth 3.3m) is approximately twice as high on the exterior as it is on the interior. There are slight disturbance gaps in the bank at NNE, SW and W. The interior has a gentle N-facing slope. A large, shallow roughly oval-shaped depression occupies the NE quadrant. Inside the bank on the SW there is another roughly oval-shaped depression. A field description from 1976 describes the SE side of the monument as having been straightened in more recent times. Monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as a D-shaped earthwork. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 05 September 2019

• WM025-156 Stone head
  Description

  Set high up in the wall just below the eaves of a single storey outbuilding is a voussoir with an oval-shaped stone head carved in relief. The carved head has almond-shaped bulbous eyes, a long elongated nose and a narrow slit mouth the ends of which are turned down. This voussoir with its carved head does not appear to be in its original location and has been incorporated into the E wall of an outhouse aligned on a N-S axis that forms the W range of outbuildings of a farmyard. Bullaun stone (WM025-033----) and font (WM025-034----) located 145m to the ENE, which originally came from the medieval church at Churchtown (WM025-011----). The farmhouse and its outbuildings containing the carved head were described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with projecting three-bay flat-roofed porch to the centre of the entrance façade (north), with crenellated parapet over, and a single and two-storey return to the rear (south). Formerly in use as a public house (west). Complex of single-storey rendered outbuildings to the northwest of house, running at a right angle to the house alignment. Further complex of outbuildings to the south. Early carved stone head inserted north end of outbuilding adjacent to road to the northeast. Set back from road to the west end of Loughanavally' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Stone heads out of context like this carving are very difficult to date based on visual inspection alone as they can date from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 August 2012

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Gneevestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Gneevestown

Area

301,804 m² (30.18 ha, 74.58 acres)

Civil parish

Conry, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymorin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Lalistown, Taghboyne, Togherstown

Placenames

Gneevestown 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.