Littlewood

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Littlewood, from 23 m² to 116,455 m² (11.65 ha, 28.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Littlewood 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.

• 3 Sept 2025N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house with new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with a percolation area and to bore a new well together with all associated site development works on site

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2535

• 8 Feb 2023Refused

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2316

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 Littlewood.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-009 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a prominent hill with good views in all directions. A large oval-shaped area (diam. 52m) defined by a low earth and stone bank with shallow U-shaped fosse and low external earthen bank of post-1700 appearance which may represent later enclosing element of the monument contemporaneous with adjoining field boundaries. Field fences radiate out from the perimeter of the site at NE, S and NW. Entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at NE. There are remains of drystone masonry facing to the S side of the gap. The interior rises unevenly towards the centre where there is the outline of a house site (WM003-009001-). The site is now covered in trees and other vegetation as clearly shown on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 December 2016

• WM003-009001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a prominent hill with good views in all directions. A large oval-shaped area ringfort (WM003-009----) with grass-covered outline of a house site visible in the centre of the interior. The site is now covered in trees and other vegetation as clearly shown on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Littlewood

Area

746,311 m² (74.63 ha, 184.42 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanus, Bigwood, Foyran, Raheen Beg, Tonyowen Upper

Placenames

Littlewood 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.