Graffanstown

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graffanstown, from 173 m² to 393,160 m² (39.32 ha, 97.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Graffanstown 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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  A 10-year planning permission and a 40-year operational life for a solar energy development with a total site area of 157 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical transformer stations; (iii) underground electrical and communications cabling within the proposed development site, private lands and within the carriageway of the L1501, L1505, L5610, L5611 and L5614 public roads; (iv) containerised battery energy storage facility; (v) the upgrade of 4 no. existing site entrances and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vi) on-site access tracks; (vii) 4 no. temporary construction compounds; (viii) security fencing and gates; (ix) pole-mounted security cameras; and (x) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560268

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  Construction of a 55.5 sqm. single storey extension to the northern end of dwellinghouse

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206216

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  open a new farm entrance.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186191

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• WM013-101 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of a ridge in undulating grassland. Present remains consist of a circular shaped flat-topped earthen mound (top diam. 10.8m N-S x 13.2m E-W; H 1m) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.9m) with external low bank (Wth 2m; H 0.15m). The fosse and bank have been levelled from NE-SE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 July 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Graffanstown.

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

Name

Graffanstown

Area

907,680 m² (90.77 ha, 224.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killagh, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaghery, Ballynacor, Dardistown, Hiskinstown, Killagh, Stonestown

Placenames

Graffanstown 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.