Moranstown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbixy, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 133962
- Area
- 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 77 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Moranstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- Willifield House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, erected c.1850, comprising cut stone gate posts on octagonal plan with pyramidal-shaped coping and a pair of decorative cast-iron and wrought-iron double gates, having arrow head finials to vertical bars and central petal detail. Road-fronted with heavily altered/rebuilt former gate lodge, originally serving Willifield House, to the south and by a coursed (dry) rubble limestone wall to the north.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 19.1 ha
- 47 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 1,840 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Established Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moranstown, from 14 m² to 65,665 m² (6.57 ha, 16.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Expanded Settlement Centre (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Consolidation Site (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballynacarrigy, Westmeath · 0 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
9 Apr 2025Conditional
Construction of 2.no. single-storey, 2-bed, semi-detached dwellings, and 2no. adjoining site entrances to same, together with all ancillary site and service works.
Permission, 2 homes · Westmeath County Council, 2560166
17 Nov 2023Refused
development which will consist of demolishing an existing, unusable, 19th century dwelling and replacing it by constructing a new two storey dwelling in its’ place
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360392
17 Dec 2018Refused
change of use from commercial to residential to provide 1 no. studio apartment
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186376
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 Moranstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moranstown.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Bridget's National School, school, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey national school and court house, dated 1814, with projecting two-bay gable-fronted wings to either end (northeast and southwest) flanking central entrance. Projecting chimney breasts to gable-fronted wings. Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Two square-headed door openings to centre with replacement timber doors and glazed surrounds. Set back from road in own grounds with pebbledashed boundary wall and rendered gate piers (on square plan) with modern metal gates to road-frontage.
- Willifield House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, erected c.1850, comprising cut stone gate posts on octagonal plan with pyramidal-shaped coping and a pair of decorative cast-iron and wrought-iron double gates, having arrow head finials to vertical bars and central petal detail. Road-fronted with heavily altered/rebuilt former gate lodge, originally serving Willifield House, to the south and by a coursed (dry) rubble limestone wall to the north.
- Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c.1890, comprising fluted shaft on molded base with lion's head above, surmounted by fluted capping with acorn finial. Inscription 'Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock' to shaft. Horizontal pull lever to side. Located in the centre of the village of Ballynacarrigy.
- House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810. One of a terrace of four. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to party walls and uPVC rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with cut stone block-and-start surround, modern timber panelled door and plain glass fanlight over. Road-fronted to west end of Ballynacarrigy.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moranstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Moranstown
- Area
- 191,381 m² (19.14 ha, 47.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbixy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Kilbixy, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacarrigy, Ballynacarrigy Old, Cumminstown, Rath
- Placenames
- Moranstown 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.