Heathland

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heathland, from 1,915 m² to 539,590 m² (53.96 ha, 133.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Heathland 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III - The development will consist of: The installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and two new 2,000kg LPG tanks located to the rear of the site. This site contains three protected structures Cast-iron wall mounted post box (15401118 / RPS No. 011-037), Wilson's Hospital : gate lodge (15401119 / RPS No. 011-038) and Wilson's Hospital: hospital/infirmary (15401120 / RPS No. 011-039) as well as three recorded monuments (WM011-036, WM011-064 and WM011-065) all of which are ring forts. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive EU 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning permission may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660433

• 25 Jul 2026N/a

  the installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and two new 2,000kg LPG tanks located to the rear of the site at, Wilsons Hospital School, Heathland, Co. Westmeath, N91 AX97. This site contains four protected structures Wilson's Hospital : worker's house (15401117), Cast-iron wall mounted post box (15401118 / RPS No. 011-037), Wilson's Hospital : gate lodge (15401119 / RPS No. 011-038) and Wilson's Hospital: hospital/infirmary (15401120 / RPS No. 011-039) as well as three recorded monuments (WM011-036, WM011-064 and WM011-065) all of which are ring forts. The development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2024) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2021 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660396

• 27 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construction of an artificial grass hockey pitch, with floodlighting to FIH Hockey Turf and Field Standards on the site of an existing natural turf playing pitch. This proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No. 011-039)

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186263

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 Heathland.

Recorded monuments

• WM011-034 Linear earthwork
  Description

  No paper file in ASI Archives, Caimin O'Brien, 04/11/2016.

Architectural heritage

• Wilson's Hospital, worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay two-storey house(s) on irregular plan, built c.1820. Divided into two distinct blocks, which are separated by single-bay single-storey sections containing main entrances. Possibly originally two separate worker's houses, Modern extensions to rear (south). Pitched natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, a single ashlar chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboards. Constructed of rubble stonework with brick heads to ground floor openings. Windows generally square-headed with multi-paned timber casement windows. Timber canted oriel window to first floor opening to centre block. Square-headed doorcase with timber panelled door and diamond-paned fanlight over, flanked by timber multi-pane windows. Detached from the main house to west is a semi-detached two-bay two-storey gabled block flanked by single-storey bays containing entrance doors. Built of rubble limestone with similar detailing to the main house. Set back from small country road in own grounds adjacent to Wilson's Hospital.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1890, with 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Set in rendered gate pier at entrance to Wilson's Hospital. Makers name appears at base in raised lettering ' T. Allen & Co. London '.

• Wilson's Hospital, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey gate lodge serving Wilson's Hospital School, built c.1820. Currently in use as a dwelling by school teaching staff. Pitched natural slate roof with raised limestone verges to either end and a single rendered chimneystack to the centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth with limestone quoins to corners. Pointed-arched window openings with cut stone surrounds and sills and replacement windows. Central square-headed doorcase with plain stepped stone surround with keystone over and replacement timber door. Carved limestone coat of arms above doorcase. Modern extension to northwest side. Located at the main entrance to Wilson's Hospital School, adjacent to the main school gates.

• Wilson's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1759–1761 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement hospital school, built between 1759 and 1761, with central pedimented three-bay breakfront (with clock face) supporting octagonal bellcote cupola over. Main structure flanked by six-bay two-storey wings to east and west sides linked to main structure by low quadrant walls curving back from the main building. The main building is a quadrangular structure and consists of four ranges of buildings set around a central courtyard with an arcaded lower ground or basement floor having rubble stone piers between plain round-headed arches. Currently in use as a second level school. Two-storey mid-Georgian chapel to the rear (south) set in projecting three-bay bow. Hipped natural slate roofs with ashlar limestone eaves cornice to entrance front. Cut stone chimneystacks throughout. Front elevation constructed in channelled ashlar limestone with ashlar detailing. Roughcast rendered elsewhere. Entrance front has central round-headed window flanked by square-headed windows and Venetian windows to first floor, square-headed openings to ground floor openings. Timber sash windows throughout, with moulded ashlar surrounds (some Gibbsian) and cut stone sills. Intersecting timber tracery to round-headed window openings. Chapel to rear lit by three round-headed windows with mid-Victorian 'Lombardic' mullions. Central round-headed doorcase with timber panelled door and Gibbsian surround reached by flight of cut limestone steps flanked by cast-iron railings. Series of one and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to southeast, including an early laundry and kitchens. Entrance gates comprising two rule-and-line rendered gate piers on square plan with cut stone coping and pineapple finials over, cast-iron double gates and attendant gate lodge (15401119) to northwest. Marble plaque, commemorating a battle at Wilson's Hospital during the 1798 Rebellion, attached to gate pier with inscriptions in Irish and English. Set back from the road in extensive mature grounds. Located in a prominent position in the landscape to the southwest of Multyfarnham.

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

Name

Heathland

Area

1,046,719 m² (104.67 ha, 258.65 acres)

Civil parish

Lackan, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Ballinalack, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindurrow, Ballynafid, Culleendarragh, Fulmort, Kilpatrick, Leny, Rathganny

Placenames

Heathland 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.