Lunestown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lunestown, from 54 m² to 266,791 m² (26.68 ha, 65.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Lunestown 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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  A 10-year planning permission and a 40-year operational life for a solar energy development with a total site area of 157 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical transformer stations; (iii) underground electrical and communications cabling within the proposed development site, private lands and within the carriageway of the L1501, L1505, L5610, L5611 and L5614 public roads; (iv) containerised battery energy storage facility; (v) the upgrade of 4 no. existing site entrances and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vi) on-site access tracks; (vii) 4 no. temporary construction compounds; (viii) security fencing and gates; (ix) pole-mounted security cameras; and (x) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560268

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  RETENTION of 3-no. previously built extensions to existing bungalow type dwelling totaling 73.2sq.m in area and also to retain previously built 54.3sq.m storage shed and all associated ancillary site services

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560074

• 3 Nov 2022Conditional

  development will consist of the construction of a two-story detached dwelling with attached garage, upgrading of existing vehicular entrance off public road, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22535

• 27 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196087

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• WM020-047 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a crest to E of the summit of Sion Hill and immediately N of a townland boundary, in pasture, with extensive views to N, E and S. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a roughly circular shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 35m). Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork the shape of which appears to have been altered by quarrying activities. Levelled monument described in 1970 as a broad and shallow oval-shaped depression similar in size to an average rath visible at location where monument is depicted on OS 6-inch map. The earthwork that is depicted on OS mapping appears to have been quarried and there is no longer any visible evidence of a bank or interior. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Lunestown

Area

715,534 m² (71.55 ha, 176.81 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyowen, Chanonstown, Corbetstown, Killagh, Sionhill

Placenames

Lunestown 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.