Huntingdon

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Huntingdon. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-078 Cist
  Description

  Situated on SSW-facing slope, in pasture and overlooking a low-lying marshy area. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. A small mound had been noted to the immediate S of Huntingdon House (NMI). Sometime prior to 1967, gravel quarrying in the vicinity of this mound revealed a cist containing a crouched skeleton (Waddell 1970, 134). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 05 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Huntingdon House, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1770, with full-height bow projecting to the rear (south). Hipped natural slate roof having two cut stone chimneystacks to the centre and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone construction with roughcast lime render over to rear (south) and side (east and west) elevations. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, dressed limestone surrounds/dressings and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, diminishing in size towards roof. Round-headed timber sash window to ground floor on otherwise blank west side elevation. Round-headed doorcase to centre with cut limestone block-and-start surround with open bed pediment over having fanlight with intersecting tracery. Timber panelled door. Doorcase flanked by sidelights with dressed limestone surrounds. Flight of cut stone steps to front (north). Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with gravel forecourt to the north. Extensive collection of outbuildings to the rear (15402031) and gate lodge and gates (15402012) to the northeast. Main gates to the northwest of the house.

• Huntingdon House, gate lodge, 1770–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Huntingdon House (15402011), built c.1800, now derelict and out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with a single red brick chimneystack to the centre. Projecting cut stone eaves course with dentils. Built of coursed squared limestone rubble with dressed limestone to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and timber casement windows having cast-iron security bars. Located adjacent to former northwest entrance gates to Huntingdon House, comprising pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstone and wrought-iron gates. Located to the northwest of Huntington House and to the northwest of Killucan.

• Huntingdon House, outbuilding, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings to the rear (south) of Huntingdon House (15402011), built c.1770, comprising a five-bay two-storey five-bay two-storey building to the east and a five-bay single-storey structure to the west. Pitched natural slate roofs with raised verges to ends. Constructed of rubble limestone with smooth rendered finish to the two-storey structure. Square-headed openings to the two-storey building with timber battened doors and windows. Segmental-headed carriage arches with brick dressings to single-storey building. Single-storey shed with corrugated-iron roof to the southeast corner and an open shed with corrugated-iron roof to the south. Site enclosed by tall rubble limestone boundary wall. Main entrance to the west side of the house through segmental-headed arch set in section of dressed limestone walling having timber double doors.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Huntingdon.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Huntingdon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Huntingdon · Huntingdon

Area

549,400 m² (54.94 ha, 135.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Huntingdon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Huntingdon electoral division: 449 people in 150 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncullen, Clonickilvant, Edmondstown, Lisnabin

Placenames

Huntingdon on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.