Grangegeeth

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangegeeth, from 42 m² to 209,450 m² (20.95 ha, 51.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Grangegeeth 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.

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolating area, share and alter existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22301

• 3 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186270

• 17 Jul 2018N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186222

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 Grangegeeth.

Recorded monuments

• WM011-098 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on top of a low ridge running NE-SW with good views of surrounding grassland. Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 540m to W, Mullenoran Bridge 1km to NNW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran is 100m to W. A sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) enclosed by two massive earthen banks and an intervening fosse with external fosse. A long rectangular building/house or barn (WM011-098001-) defined by an earthen bank, with an internal division and a door at NE occupies most of the interior. The interior slopes slightly from SE-NW, and has been quarried into at SW quadrant. There is a causeway across the fosse at N. Field fences enclose this monument on the N, E & W sides. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017

• WM011-098001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on top of a low ridge running NE-SW with good views of surrounding grassland. Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 540m to W, Mullenoran bridge 1km to NNW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran is 100m to W. A long rectangular building or house (dims. 19.5m NE-SW; 5.15m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.45m), with an internal division and a door (Wth 2m) at NE occupies most of the interior of a moated site (WM011-098----). See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017

• WM011-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views from WSW-N. Moated site (WM011-098----) 320m to NE, possible ringfort (WM011-101----) 30m to NW. A raised oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. The bank has been levelled from WNW-N-NE, and from NE-E-S the monument has been reduced to exterior ground level by quarrying. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior of the monument, which rises slightly towards the centre. The road which marks the boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran townland intersects the site at W. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017

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

Name

Grangegeeth

Area

596,387 m² (59.64 ha, 147.37 acres)

Civil parish

Portloman, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Portloman, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balrath, Mountmurray, Piercefield, Piercefield Or Templeoran

Placenames

Grangegeeth 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.