Harrystown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harrystown, from 2,933 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 299,934 m² (29.99 ha, 74.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Harrystown 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 Harrystown 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Harrystown.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-083 Mass-rock
  Description

  In elevated pasture, built into N face of low hill overlooking mill race and old road known locally as Bianconi's road (pers. comm. Dara Reid) immediately to the N. Harrystown flour mill (WM023-084----) located 30m to W, small bridge crossing mill race 8m to NW. This mass rock consists of a flat recumbent slab (L 1.31m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.2m) acting as an altar which was supported on loosely piled stones which has been built into the N face of the hill which rises high above the altar of the mass rock. The mass rock is located beside an old road now used as a laneway which is locally referred to as Bianconi's road. According to the woman living in the nearby mill house this stone was known locally as the mass rock (pers. comm. Dara Reid). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 August 2014

• WM023-084 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  Two storey mill house depicted as 'Flour Mill' with mill pond to E on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map appears to be located on site of medieval mill depicted at this location on the 1659 Down Survey map of Ballymore parish and on the map of Rathconrath barony (NLI MS 723-4). No evidence to suggest that two storey house incorporates remains of mill building that is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey maps. Annotated as 'a mill' and depicted as a vertical-wheeled watermill on the 1659 Down Survey map of Ballymore parish. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 August 2014

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

Name

Harrystown

Area

677,357 m² (67.74 ha, 167.38 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Baskin High, Baskin Low, Dungolman, Milltown, Mullenmeehan, Snimnagorta

Placenames

Harrystown 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.