# Lowerwood, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcleagh, barony of Clonlonan, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 945,660 m² (94.57 ha, 233.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 50,249 m² (5.02 ha, 12.42 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcleagh, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/kilcleagh.md - Barony: Clonlonan - Electoral division: Castledaly, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/50860 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230943 - Centre: latitude 53.371342, longitude -7.77415 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowerwood, from 398 m² to 78,089 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 100820: 78,089 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100820.md - Parcel 100605: 77,567 m² (7.76 ha, 19.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100605.md - Parcel 100366: 75,930 m² (7.59 ha, 18.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100366.md - Parcel 126062: 62,392 m² (6.24 ha, 15.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126062.md - Parcel 126177: 59,364 m² (5.94 ha, 14.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126177.md - Parcel 102747: 59,353 m² (5.94 ha, 14.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102747.md - Parcel 102145: 58,204 m² (5.82 ha, 14.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102145.md - Parcel 126666: 58,114 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126666.md - Parcel 126198: 56,716 m² (5.67 ha, 14.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126198.md - Parcel 100114: 52,749 m² (5.27 ha, 13.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100114.md - Parcel 126178: 51,440 m² (5.14 ha, 12.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126178.md - Parcel 102562: 50,249 m² (5.02 ha, 12.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102562.md - Parcel 125981: 50,171 m² (5.02 ha, 12.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125981.md - Parcel 102559: 43,699 m² (4.37 ha, 10.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102559.md - Parcel 5051972: 24,929 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5051972.md - Parcel 128107: 20,904 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128107.md - Parcel 2596914: 4,830 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596914.md - Parcel 5919672: 3,628 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5919672.md - Parcel 126084: 3,269 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126084.md - Parcel 2716167: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2716167.md - Parcel 100610: 1,642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/100610.md - Parcel 5919888: 487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5919888.md - Parcel 103217: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/103217.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 29 Apr 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct 01 No. dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated Site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660215/0 - 10 Feb 2022, Westmeath County Council 2249: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2249/0 - 28 May 2021, Westmeath County Council 21297: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21297/0 - 8 Nov 2018, Westmeath County Council 187211: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/187211/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lowerwood. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM036-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM036-029----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM036-051----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowerwood. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lowerwood.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lowerwood.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lowerwood.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lowerwood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Boggagh (Fury): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/boggagh-fury.md - Boggagh (Malone): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/boggagh-malone.md - Boggagh Eighter: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/boggagh-eighter.md - Clonlonan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonlonan.md - Hall: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/hall.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/moneen.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lowerwood - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/lowerwood