Kippinstown
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Brawny, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Baile na gCipín
- Area
- 24.2 ha
- 60 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,240 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kippinstown, from 58 m² to 54,440 m² (5.44 ha, 13.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kippinstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Apr 2026N/a
construction of a four bay slatted cattle shed
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2613
27 Mar 2026N/a
for construction of a four bay slatted shed.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2610
27 Feb 2026N/a
construction of a four bay slatted cattle shed
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 266
23 Dec 2024Conditional
construction of single storey extensions to the front and rear of an existing dwelling with internal and external alterations; for the construction of an ancillary detached outdoor barbecue structure to the rear of the existing dwelling; for internal and external alterations to an existing garage; for the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and percolation area and the provision of a replacement tertiary treatment system and attenuation layer; and all associated site development works. This application includes a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460508
30 Aug 2023N/a
proposed development to comprise of a change to the existing dwelling elevation and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360273
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kippinstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kippinstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1638 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kippinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Kippinstown · Baile na gCipín
- Area
- 241,529 m² (24.15 ha, 59.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Brawny
- Electoral division
- Moydrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moydrum electoral division: 3,155 people in 1,066 households; 78% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeran, Cappankelly, Clonagh, Garrynafela
- Placenames
- Kippinstown 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.