Lowerwood

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowerwood, from 398 m² to 78,089 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lowerwood 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct 01 No. dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated Site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660215

• 10 Feb 2022Conditional

  construct a four bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit with percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works, landscaping and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2249

• 28 May 2021Refused

  Construction of a four-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit with percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works, landscaping and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21297

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permission is being sought to construct a four bedroom dwelling with garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187211

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 Lowerwood.

Recorded monuments

• WM036-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise (221ft/67m OD), in pasture. A public road lies c. 10m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Shown on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped enclosure. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Outline of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 36m) with cultivation ridges running NNW-SSE across the surface is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Lowerwood.

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

Name

Lowerwood

Area

945,660 m² (94.57 ha, 233.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Castledaly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castledaly electoral division: 774 people in 261 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boggagh (Fury), Boggagh (Malone), Boggagh Eighter, Clonlonan, Hall, Moneen

Placenames

Lowerwood 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.