Jeffrystown

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jeffrystown, from 125 m² to 210,252 m² (21.03 ha, 51.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Jeffrystown 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.

• 6 Jul 2023Conditional

  RETENTION of an 18.76 sqm extension built to the rear of my house, plus retention of an attic conversion of 75.9 sqm and some elevational changes to the house from those granted under planning application reference 07/2208

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 23103

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  Planning permission for a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance onto the public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206348

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 Jeffrystown.

Recorded monuments

• WM013-040 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock surrounded by undulating grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as small oval shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’. Not indicated on revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 April 2018

• WM013-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a hillock overlooked by higher ground to SE and S, with good views from NW-NE. The stream which forms the townland boundary with Balreagh lies 110m to W. A raised oval shaped area (approx. diam. 46m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) enclosed by a low fragmentary bank of earth and stone (H 1m) with a possible entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) at NE. The interior rises towards the centre. A post 1840 field bank running WNW-ESE intersects the perimeter of the monument from SE-SW. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 April 2018

• WM013-042 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in grassland with commanding views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped earthwork with trees in the interior annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on 1850 estate map as a ‘rath planted’ & enclosed within a field fence (NLI 21 F. 80 (29)). This monument was levelled in the 1960s. Now visible as a circular rise (approx. diam. 28m NW-SE) of ground defined by a scarp. Outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 April 2018

• WM013-113 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 53) as following: ‘Very large, previously unrecorded ring-barrow (Diam. 44.5m N-S x 47.2m E-W), comprising a broad and very low domed mound (Diam. 32m N-S x 33.7m E-W) surrounded by a circular ditch; there appear to be the slightest traces of a bank outside the ditch, best seen on aerial photographs, but these are very unclear and the bank has been excluded from the overall diameter given above. Ditch is broadly U-shaped to flat-based with basal width of 2.7m, and, on N side, is sunk 0.22m below central mound and 0.78m below external ground level (or the denuded remains of the presumed bank); rubble has been dumped in its SE quadrant in recent times. Central mound is currently sunk 0.47m below external ground level where measured at N side, and must have been proportionately deeper when outer bank was intact. Monument is sited in low-lying basin with higher ground surrounding it, greatly reducing visibility. A second circular earthwork, possibly also a barrow, is visible on aerial photographs in an adjacent field c. 60m to WNW, but this has not yet been examined by the survey-team on the ground. Another barrow lies in Edmondstown (WM013-048----) less than 350m to SE of the present monument, and between the two is a small natural lake or pool, possibly a kettle-hole of glacial origin; between this lake and the present site, which lie 130m apart, is a small stream, its curving channel altered in places for drainage purposes. About 700m to NW in Balreagh is a ruined medieval church in a burial ground (WM013-038----), the‘regular oval enclosure’ surrounding the latter being sufficiently diagnostic for Leo Swan (1988, 26) to identify this as an early medieval ecclesiastical foundation; immediately NW of this church site is a motte (WM013-037----) and close by is a souterrain (WM013-039----)’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 8 February 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Jeffrystown

Area

1,287,487 m² (128.75 ha, 318.14 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balreagh, Edmondstown, Fennor, Gigginstown

Placenames

Jeffrystown 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.