Lowertown

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowertown, from 612 m² to 473,777 m² (47.38 ha, 117.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lowertown 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.

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22447

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  a domestic garage store of circa 81.75 sq.m

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196288

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Murphy's Bridge Esker 001775

Recorded monuments

• WM040-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hill with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Circular area (diam. 49m E-W) defined by a high earth and stone bank with wide deep outer fosse, and external bank and traces of a second shallow fosse. Possible original entrance gap that has been modified at E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 01 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Lowertown Bridge, bridge, 1830–1836 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge spanning dried-up section of the Grand Canal (Kilbeggan Branch), built c.1833, with curved flanking walls to either end (northeast and southwest). Constructed of ashlar limestone with ashlar limestone voussoirs to arch and a projecting ashlar limestone string course at road level. Towpath to the east bank. Located to the south of Tyrrellspass close to the border with Co. Offaly (south).

• Aqueduct, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched aqueduct, built c.1833, carrying the Grand Canal (Kilbeggan Branch), now dry, over the Silver River. Constructed of dressed limestone with ashlar limestone detailing including projecting string course at canal water level. Rubble limestone construction to parapet walls. Straddles the border with Co. Offaly.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lowertown.

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.

No address of the register names Lowertown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Lowertown

Area

1,225,199 m² (122.52 ha, 302.75 acres)

Civil parish

Rahugh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Rahugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahugh electoral division: 310 people in 114 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybroder, Bracklin Little (Co. Offaly), Cappalahy, Derrygolan, Grange and Kiltober, Rahugh

Placenames

Lowertown 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.