Kilbrennan

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbrennan, from 233 m² to 329,357 m² (32.94 ha, 81.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbrennan 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.

• 10 Jan 2025Conditional

  RETENTION permission and permission for development at this site of c. 0.65 hectares. The proposed development will consist of gas network infrastructure including a permanent above ground pigging compound. This will include (i) above and below ground pipework, (ii) 19.1m x 14m x 2.4m high security fencing; (iii) internal concrete road pavement and gravelled areas, (iv) vehicular access to Kilbrennan Road (L1127), and (v) all associated site development works including; construction works, surface water drainage, and landscaping features. In addition, retention permission is sought for temporary widening of existing field entrance for use as a construction entrance, and associated temporary working area for a period of up to 2 years. The development relates to the granted application to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) under Section 39A of the Gas Act 1976, as amended, for an underground gas transmission pipeline (known as the ‘Kiltotan Pipeline’). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Appropriate Assessment Screening Report has been prepared with respect to the project and will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560006

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460451

• 9 Aug 2023Conditional

  upgrade and extend existing dwelling and to upgrade existing shed, to relocate and upgrade : (a) existing private well, (b) existing entrance to public road, (c) existing septic tank and percolation area with a tertiary treatment system with coco filter and infiltration bed, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360257

• 19 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a Hay shed with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2260038

• 7 Mar 2019Conditional

  a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196061

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 Kilbrennan.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A sub-triangular shaped enclosure is depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a tree plantation and not as antiquity, on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). On the OS Fair Plan the monument is depicted as a sub-triangular-shaped earthwork delimited by a scarp and annotated on the map as 'fort'. Situated on top of a prominent hillock with good views to NW and N of undulaing pasture. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map the monument is depicted as a sub-triangular shaped earthwork with straight side at S and W with bank at NE running diagonally from NW-SE. The cropmark of this bank on the NE side is visible on bing maps aerial photography taken in 2011. See attached document containing bing maps aerial photograph which shows shadow of levelled NE bank of ringfort. Compiled by : Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 July 2013

• WM033-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight W facing slope of land with bogland to the SW. Roughly circular area (diam. 63m N-S; 62m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with slight remains of an external fosse, no clear entrance feature visible. A gap (Wth 2m) at NNE may be the remains of an original feature was recorded in 1971 but this feature was not visible in 1976. The enclosing element of the monument has been levelled due to the removal of the townland boundary from NW-N and a field boundary ditch at NE. Both of these boundary hedges are visible on the current ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument is visible as a cropmark on 2005 OSI aerial photographs. Traces of cultivation ridges can be seen running E-W across the N quadrant of the ringfort interior. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• WM033-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise of ground, on N face of a long low E-W ridge. Monument difficult to examine due to dense cover of trees and bushes. Roughly circular-shaped area defined by a low earthen bank with external fosse. No visible entrance feature. Depicted as a tree plantation and not as antiquity, on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• WM033-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight NE facing slope in undulating countryside. Roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 31m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank best preserved from W-N-NE, with slight remains of an external fosse best preserved from NE-E, no entrance feature visible. The enclosing element of the ringfort has been defaced at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW which intersects the monument from S-SW. Depicted as an antiquity and annotated as ‘Fort’, on the 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• WM033-064 Enclosure
  Description

  Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps or on the OS Fair Plan. Depicted as a small rectangular field or paddock c. 20m to the SE of a 19th century building on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The small field may be associated with this building that was constructed between 181-1837. This small field is not depicted 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). On this map the building located 20m to the NW is annotated as 'Proposed Site for Building' (ibid.). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• WM033-073 Burial ground
  Description

  In 2002 human bone was found during ploughing in a raised area of a field known locally as the 'chapel field'. This was found near the site of a whitethorn 'mass bush' ( pers com. J. Carey, Rochfortbridge). Date of upload: 10 July 2013

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

Name

Kilbrennan

Area

2,563,741 m² (256.37 ha, 633.51 acres)

Civil parish

Castlelost, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Clonfad, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Calverstown, Carrick, Castlelost West, Kilbride, Meedian, Moorerow Or Tonlegee, Piercetown, Walterstown

Placenames

Kilbrennan 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.