Magheranerla
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Brawny, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 3.5 ha
- 9 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 382 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Established Residential
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheranerla, from 8 m² to 3,780 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
ATLAP 2014-2020, Westmeath · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Sept 2026N/a
to construct new housing development consisting of 1 Terrace , 3 No Bed , two storeys (3 houses) and 4 Blocks of Semi Detached two storeys 3No Beds (8 houses), together with all boundary treatments- alterations /new access road and to connect to all road services and all ancillary site development works and connection to all public services
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660478
13 Jul 2026N/a
RETENTION of change of use of existing dwelling house to 3no. self-contained residential units and all associated works
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660372
2 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of new housing development consisting of 1 Terrace , 3 No Bed , two storeys (3 houses) & 4 Blocks of Semi Detached two storeys 3No Beds (8 houses) , together with all boundary treatments, road services and all ancillary site development works and connection to all public services
Permission, 11 homes · Westmeath County Council, 2560390
21 Jul 2025N/a
to construct new housing development consisting of 1 Terrace , 3 No Bed , two storeys (3 houses) & 4 Blocks of Semi Detached two storeys 3 No Beds (8 houses) , together with all boundary treatments, road services and all ancillary site development works and connection to all public services
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560365
26 Jan 2023Conditional
construction of an extension onto my existing medical practice consisting of a pharmacy ancillary to the existing medical practice and all ancillary site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360015
28 Oct 2022Refused
retention permission for (a) site entrance and associated site works as constructed (b) planning permission to upgrade existing entrance and construct new piers, gates and associated site works
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 22528
25 Aug 2021Conditional
Construct an extension to the rear and eastern elevation of an existing dwelling. The application will also include the conversion of existing garage into living space, extending the existing back extension, all other minor alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works and drainage.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21469
26 Jul 2021N/a
Construction of an extension to the rear and eastern elevation of an existing dwelling. The application will also include all associated site works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21425
13 Jul 2021N/a
Construction of a total of six 3-storey dwellings, which will include the use of the attic floor level, and composed of four detached and two semi-detached units and to include new access road with all associated site development works and services, connected to existing adjoining public services
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21388
15 Jun 2021N/a
Construction of six two-storey dwellings, composed of four detached and two semi-detached units and all associated site development works and services to be connected to adjoining public services with the proposed development located at Crystal Village, Magheranerla, Athlone
Permission, 6 homes · Westmeath County Council, 21335
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magheranerla.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magheranerla.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheranerla.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1610 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Magheranerla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Magheranerla
- Area
- 34,780 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Brawny
- Electoral division
- Athlone East Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athlone East Urban electoral division: 4,811 people in 1,982 households; 46% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartrontroy, Loughandonning
- Placenames
- Magheranerla 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.