Montrath

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Montrath, from 17 m² to 651,109 m² (65.11 ha, 160.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Montrath 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolating area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460380

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, shared entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206036

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  Construction of slatted shed, milking parlour, widen existing entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196307

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: Rahugh Ridge (Kiltober Esker) 000918

Recorded monuments

• WM039-012 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On flat well drained land with good views of the surrounding countryside. Depicted as a small mound on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible of mound that has been destroyed by quarrying. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 02 August 2013

• WM039-013 Moated site
  Description

  On flat well drained pasture land with good views in all directions. Hachured as a square-shaped enclosure on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Square-shaped area (dims. 27m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank and external fosse with possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at S. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 02 August 2013

• WM039-146 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A post (L 0.3m min.; diam. 0.07m) set at an angle of 75°. The post has been cut to a wedge point. Date of upload: 12 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, building misc, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey structure, built c.1880, having a two-bay gable-fronted section and a projecting single-bay single-storey porch having a mono-pitched natural slate roof over to the centre of the entrance facade (south). Now in use as a community centre. Pitched natural slate roof with bracketed eaves, a central red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to projecting porch having a timber sheeted door with a three-paned overlight over. Cut stone date plaque over projecting porch (not read). Set back from road in own grounds with a rendered boundary wall and a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan), supporting a wrought-iron gate, to the road-frontage. Located adjacent to the east of Rahugh Roman Catholic church (15403823) and to the south of Tyrrellspass.

• Saint Hugh's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic chapel on T-shaped-plan, built c.1810 and rebuilt c.1844 (plaque), comprising a two-bay nave with single-bay transepts to the north and south and later single-storey flat-roofed sacristy to the east. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and with carved stone cross and Celtic cross finials to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised cut stone quoins to the corners. Pointed-arch window openings having rendered reveals, cut stone sills and with timber and uPVC Y-tracery windows, all with stained glass. Square-headed door openings to the west gable end of nave and to the west face of transept to the north having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber doors. Plain square-headed doorcase to the west face of transept to the south with replacement timber sheeted door. Cast-iron bell supported on a concrete plinth located on a rise to the northwest of church. Chapel/church set back from road in own grounds and bounded on road frontage by a roughcast rendered boundary wall with cut stone coping over. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers on square-plan supporting wrought-iron double gates.

• Mayville, house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with attic level, built c.1825. Pitched artificial slate roof with a pair of rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, cut stone sills and replacement uPVC casement windows. Central round-headed door opening with cut limestone surround having keystone detail and a replacement timber panelled door with a plain fanlight over. Flight of cut limestone steps give access to doorway. Site bounded to road frontage (south) by a rubble limestone boundary wall. Main entrance gates to the south of the house comprising a pair of rubble limestone gate piers on square-plan with cut stone coping over supporting a pair of cast-iron double gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rubble limestone boundary wall (on curved plan) and terminated by further rubble limestone gate piers on square-plan with cut stone coping over. Set back from road in mature grounds to the south of Tyrrellspass.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800 with attached single-storey byre/outbuilding to east, built c.1830, and a (later) projecting flat-roofed single-bay single-storey porch to the centre of the entrance façade (south). Direct-entry plan, originally lobby-entry. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, two rendered chimneystacks to the centre and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with raised and fielded quoins to the corners of the main body of building and to projecting porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, rendered reveals and cut-stone sills. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch with glazed timber door. Set back from road at right angle to road alignment. Bounded on road-frontage by a roughcast rendered boundary wall. Main entrance gate to the southwest of house, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on circular-plan) having a replacement gate. Located to the south of Tyrrellspass adjacent to 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).

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

Name

Montrath

Area

3,988,085 m² (398.81 ha, 985.48 acres)

Civil parish

Rahugh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Rahugh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanrush, Clonagh (Co. Offaly), Cloneen (Co. Offaly), Cruit (Co. Offaly), Derrycoffey (Co. Offaly), Garryduff, Monasset, Mullagharush (Co. Offaly), Pallasboy, Rathgarrett, Rossbeg

Placenames

Montrath 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.