Grangestown

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangestown, from 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 454,241 m² (45.42 ha, 112.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Grangestown 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 Grangestown 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

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

Recorded monuments

• WM008-109 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  In 1682 Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh wrote that at the E end of Lough Lene there 'issueth out another considerable stream which in one quarter of a mile turneth a mill at Cummestown (WM008-026----), thence at Grainstown [Grangestown] it turneth another' (Vallancey 1786, 10). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Grangestown

Area

734,573 m² (73.46 ha, 181.52 acres)

Civil parish

Castletowndelvin, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Clonarney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cooleighter, Gormanstown, Mabestown, Scurlockstown

Placenames

Grangestown 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.