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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay (northwest) and two-bay two-storey (southeast) houses, built c.1820 and c.1850, now in single ownership. Structure to southeast later in use as a shop. Projecting gable-fronted porches to the front elevation (northeast). Pitched corrugated metal roof to three-bay house with rendered chimneystack to northwest end; pitched natural slate roof to two-bay house with raised verge to northwest end and rendered chimneystacks to either end. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with ruled-and-line rendered finish to southwest gable end. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Iron security bars to ground floor openings. Fixed two-pane window to ground floor window to southwest end of two-story house (former shopfront). Square-headed door openings to projecting porches having timber sheeted doors with overlights and timber bargeboards over. Complex of rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear (northwest) and two-storey rendered outbuildings to the south. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to north. Stone gate piers to south give access to rear yard. Located at a rural cross road junction at the east end of Loughanavally.

• House, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with a single-bay single-storey extension to the north. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to either end, cast-iron rainwater goods and crested clay ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered base. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sash windows, diminished to first floor. Central square-headed doorway with timber sheeted door. Two-storey outbuilding to southeast with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Random rubble boundary wall to east. Located in Loughanavally, opposite Fox’s public house (15402516).

• Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1890, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle, and fluted ogee-dome cap with finial over. Set on cement rendered platform with drain to the north. Bounded by rubble limestone wall, open to the street frontage (north). Located to the south side of the road through Loughanavally.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  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). Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and four rendered chimneystacks having moulded stone coping and terracotta chimneypots over. Remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered finish to projecting porch having a projecting string course at roof level. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, diminishing in size. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to porch. Square-headed doorway with timber panelled door to front face of porch (north). Porch flanked by low plinth walls having wrought-iron looped railings over to the east and the 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.

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 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.