Lakingstown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacnevan, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Baile na Leacan
Parcel 132049
- Area
- 57,441 m² (5.74 ha, 14.19 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lakingstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 108.1 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 16,069 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lakingstown, from 902 m² to 94,760 m² (9.48 ha, 23.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lakingstown 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lakingstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
- WM010-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earth and stone bank with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.1m) at S. An outer bank at E appears to be a later feature. A possible circular hut site (WM010-032001-) is visible in the W quadrant of the interior. 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
- WM010-032001 Hut site
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. A possible circular hut site (approx. diam. 8.6m N-S; 8.2m E-W; H 0.3m) is visible in the W quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-032---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c.1810. Constructed of dressed limestone having ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and copping over parapets. Cut stone piers to ends of parapet walling. Located to the southwest of Ballynacarrigy.
- 36th Lock, lock, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Canal lock, built c.1810, consisting of pair of (restored) timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards, tail gates and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock channel. Located adjacent to canal bridge (15401011) with associated lock keeper's house adjacent to the south (now extended and altered). Located to the southwest of Ballynacarrigy.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lakingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Lakingstown · Baile na Leacan
- Area
- 1,081,005 m² (108.1 ha, 267.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacnevan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Emper, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintue, Castlegaddery, Irishtown, Paddinstown Lower
- Placenames
- Lakingstown 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.