Irishtown

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown, from 33 m² to 698,135 m² (69.81 ha, 172.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Irishtown 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.

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  (a) Modify entrance gates. (b) Extend dwelling including replacing roof. (c) Decommission existing septic tank and replace with new septic tank upgrade in new location compliant with EPA CoP 2021, to EN 12566-1, and (d) New office room in garden, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460388

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct 1 no dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system and raised percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21678

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with cattle crush and concrete areas with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176157

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 Irishtown.

Recorded monuments

• WM010-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground with good views of the surrounding countryside. A small circular shaped area (approx. diam. 18m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow external fosse. A field boundary intersects the monument from SW-W-NW, and the perimeter has been steepened here. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-037 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a ridge in grassland which slopes away to the N & S. not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A large D-shaped area (diam. 47.5m E-W) enclosed by a straight field fence running E-W at N (max. Wth 3m), and a straight NNW-SSE field fence (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) consisting of an earth-covered stone wall, and from N-E-S a curving field fence of similar construction. The interior is domed. There is a local tradition of an opening to a ‘cave’ in the interior. Doubtful antiquity. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM017-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of rising ground, surrounded by poor grassland. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m E-W) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with very slight remains of an external fosse. The bank has evidence of internal stone facing visible from NE-SW. The interior is uneven and contains dumps of stone. A relict field bank has levelled the perimeter of the monument at NE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

• WM017-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope, near the top of a prominent hillock, in good pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular shaped tree-planted area defined by a bank with external fosse. On this map the monument forms the N boundary of a small rectangular-shaped field Annotated as a 'fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval shaped monument standing in a large narrow field dating from the 19th century. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Faint cropmark of levelled site is barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Site described in 1983 as a much degraded levelled monument consisting of a roughly circular, saucer-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by the remains of a very low earthen bank which is best preserved from NE-E, reduced to a scarp from SE-SW and as a low bank from SW-N. Traces of a shallow fosse were visible from NE-SE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2018

• WM017-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock, in relatively low lying, rough pasture with extensive views in all directions, except where limited to NE by a distant ridge. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) defined by a bank with external fosse, encircled on the exterior by a line of trees. Irishtown River lies c. 140m to NE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a sub-oval shaped area defined by a scarp and having a field boundary which lies c. 15m to E. Surrounding field has been drained and planted with forestry in recent years (Digital Globe; Bing; Google Earth 24/03/2017). Monument described in 1975 as a roughly oval-shaped enclosure defined by the remains of a bank which is reduced to a steep scarp and having the slight remains of an external fosse. The bank is occupied by thorn bushes and briars. An outer earthen bank is evident in places which may form part of a field boundary. There is no obvious entrance. The interior rises appreciably from the perimeter towards the centre and is disturbed by digging of relatively modern date. A second report from 1980 described the monument as a roughly circular-shaped area (38.5m NNE-SSW; 38m WNW-ESE) defined by a bank, intervening fosse and an outer bank, which has been much defaced during land reclamation works. The poorly preserved inner bank only survives from NNE-E and from S-W and has the remains of internal and external stone facing from NNE-E. The intervening fosse survives from SSE-E and has been partially defaced by the recent land works, having some boulders dumped within at W. There are no enclosing elements from E-SSE. There is no obvious entrance. The interior rises unevenly towards the centre, having been extensively disturbed, whereby there is a large depression off-centre to S & SE with other smaller depressions across most of the N, E & S quadrants. Some stones are visible on the surface in the S & E sectors, yet no structures are discernible. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2018

• WM017-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural terrace, on the SW side of a prominent hill, in reasonably good pasture, with good views from SW-NW. Standing on the landscaped demesne of Irishtown House which stands 360m to NNW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped ringfort enclosed by a bank surrounded by a ring of trees. Ringfort that was modified as a tree-ring in the post-1700 landscaping of the demesne belonging to Irishtown House. Remains consist of an oval shaped area (approx. dims. 48m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by the poorly preserved remains of an earth and stone bank which have been reduced to a low scarp that appears to have been modified as a tree-ring. The tree-lined scarp is low and barely visible from NW-SE, yet is slightly higher SE-W and is best preserved for a short portion at W. The profile of the scarp is sharp at E and S and there is stone facing on the external face from W-S and SE which probably represents post-1700 landscaping when the monument was reused as a tree-ring. There is no obvious entrance feature visible. There are faint traces of a shallow, narrow external fosse visible from SSE-W. The interior slopes slightly to S and contains some trees. The remains of a broad, low grass-covered earthen bank located off-centre to NE indicates the possible site of a rectangular hut (WM017-024001-). Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2018

• WM017-024001 Hut site
  Description

  The remains of a rectangular hut site defined by a broad, low grass-covered bank are visible in NE quadrant of a ringfort (WM017-024----). . Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2018

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

Name

Irishtown

Area

3,105,079 m² (310.51 ha, 767.28 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintue, Kilmacnevan, Lakingstown, Lisnacask, Modranstown, Paddinstown Lower, Rathduff, Rathmore

Placenames

Irishtown 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.