Keoltown

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keoltown, from 157 m² to 623,846 m² (62.38 ha, 154.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Keoltown 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.

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a granny flat extension at the front, rear and side to include an entrance, bedroom, w.c. and wardrobe and at the rear a kitchen and at the side a bedroom with en-suite and wardrobe and to retain existing living area on the ground floor and to retain on first floor two bedrooms, 3 velux windows, landing and w.c. and to decommission existing septic tank and to install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21527

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  extend and renovate existing ground floor level (from 85.8sqm to 109.8sqm), to include removing chimneys, roof tiles and all windows with alterations to the internal layout, also new first floor extension (109.8sqm) over single storey dwelling to include new living spaces, bathroom, office and 4 no. bedrooms. Also upgrade the existing septic tank to septic tank, filter system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196041

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of a domestic shed and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176307

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ennell SAC 000685
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ennell SPA 004044
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ennell 000685

Recorded monuments

• WM025-029 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low, flat topped ridge, to N of Lough Ennell in generally level, low-lying pasture. A townland boundary lies c. 70m to E. Annotated 'Fort' and depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a D-shaped earthwork, outlined by a bank, with the straight side along a field fence at W. Levelled monument described in 1981 as a large, roughly circular-shaped depression which could represent a quarried ringwork. There are small quarry like pits cut into the side of the ridge at N and SW. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 05 September 2019

• WM025-076001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a knoll in low lying pasture, near the N shore of Lough Ennell. A possible barrow described as a ring-work in 1976 was depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork on Larkin's 1808 map of Co. Westmeath. Shown as a circular-shaped earthwork on Lyons Estate Map of 1823 (NLI MS 2753). In 1976 a cist burial (WM025-076002-) was exposed when backfilling a small disused gravel pit at the base of a glacial hillock. The cist was situated just below the break of the hillock on SE facing slope. Eamonn Kelly of the National Museum of Ireland carried out an investigation of the site and recorded the following details; 'The capstone (dims. 0.91m x 0.76m x 0.08m) was fully removed and the cist was seen to contain a small pottery vessel and a pile of cremated bones. Excavation relocated the grave (max. L 0.47m x Max. L 0.41m x D 0.5m) which had not been further damaged in the back-filling operation. It was trapezoidal in shape and was made up of 4 slabs set into a sub-rectangular pit (dims. 0.95m x 0.8m x D 0.5m). Mr Maguire informed me that a ring-work consisting of an earthen bank approximately 50cm high and 8m in diameter once crowned the knoll. A large tree known locally as 'The Hangman's Tree' grew in the centre of it. The cist being reported on was situated outside this earthwork' (Kelly 1982-3, 87-8). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 11 September 2019

• WM025-076002 Cist
  Description

  Situated on top of a knoll in low lying pasture, near the N shore of Lough Ennell. A cist burial uncovered immediately beside a possible barrow (WM025-076001-) which was excavated the National Museum of Ireland in 1976. In this year a cist burial was exposed when backfilling a small disused gravel pit at the base of a glacial hillock. The cist was situated just below the break of the hillock on SE facing slope. Eamonn Kelly of the National Museum of Ireland carried out an investigation of the site and recorded the following details; 'The capstone (dims. 0.91m x 0.76m x 0.08m) was fully removed and the cist was seen to contain a small pottery vessel and a pile of cremated bones. Excavation relocated the grave (max. L 0.47m x Max. L 0.41m x D 0.5m) which had not been further damaged in the back-filling operation. It was trapezoidal in shape and was made up of 4 slabs set into a sub-rectangular pit (dims. 0.95m x 0.8m x D 0.5m). The cist contained a small pottery vessel and a deposit of cremated bones, later analysed to be skull fragments, mandible and maxilla, phalanges and metacarpal bones from one individual. Four unworked flint flakes were found in the bulldozed soil near the cist. The cist being reported on was situated outside this earthwork' (Kelly 1982-3, 86-9). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 11 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Keoltown House, country house, 1800–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1800 and extended in 1885, on L-shaped plan having a projecting double bay to west end of main elevation (south), a single-storey canted bay window to the east elevation and a two-storey return to the rear (north). Probably incorporating the fabric of an earlier house on the same site and plan, built c.1800. Hipped artificial slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over chamfered limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway with roll moulded stone surround having articulated keystone over, dated 1885. Timber panelled double doors with sidelights and a wide fanlight over. Flight of cut stone steps to the front. Substantial complex of two-storey outbuildings/stable block to the northwest, arranged around a central courtyard, now mostly converted to private accommodation. Range to east side of complex has dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds to the square-headed openings, c.1800. Main entrance to outbuilding complex from the west through segmental-headed carriage arch with dressed limestone voussoirs. Located to the southwest of Mullingar in extensive mature grounds. Main entrance to the west.

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

Name

Keoltown · Baile Mhic Eoil

Area

2,046,145 m² (204.61 ha, 505.61 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Hopestown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina, Cartron, Curristown Or Bellmount, Dysart, Habsborough, Hanstown, Ladestown

Placenames

Keoltown 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.