Mosstown Demesne

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mosstown Demesne, from 2,476 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 285,014 m² (28.5 ha, 70.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Mosstown Demesne 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Mosstown Demesne 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 the townland of Mosstown Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• WM024-110 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Ringfort annotated 'Judge's Fort' on 1837 OS Fair Plan Map. Situated on flat elevated pasture with good views in all directions. On the demesne lands of Mosstown House located 120m to S. Circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) enclosed by a well preserved high steep-sided wide earthen bank (int. H 2m; ext. H 3-3.5m) and poorly preserved external fosse with entrance gap at E. A post-1700 roofless building stands in centre of ringfort. Outline of ringfort clearly visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP BDK033) taken 14/07/1970. Fragments of medieval cut stone from Mosstown Castle (WM024-147---) including a punch-dressed chamfered jambstone have been reused in the construction of the post-1700 building. This building with a wide flat-headed doorway in the centre of E gable was probably a farm building. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2019

• WM024-147 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in undulating pasture on the demesne land of Mosstown Ho. located 250m to the N. The townland of Mosstown Demesne formed part of Ballinkeeny [Ballenkeny] in the medieval period. Ballikenny Castle was depicted as a tower house type castle standing close to the townland boundary with Ballyclogher on the Down Survey map of Killare parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of this parish map stated that in 'Clare, Dooneild, Rathskeagh, Killinbrack, Bishopsland Ballikenny on each of them stands a Castle' (ibid.). On this map the castle stood on lands belonging to Thomas Coffy who is listed as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.). The ruins of a castle or tower are shown on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). The castle is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure with its long axis aligned NE-SW. Shown as a circular structure on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. A circular-shaped tower is visible at this location today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Punch dressed stonework from this medieval castle has been reused in the building of a structure standing in the centre of a ringfort (WM024-110----) located 400m to the N. Architectural fragments of this castle includes a punch dressed chamfered stone possibly part of the arch of the doorway into the castle along with a punch-dressed quoin. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

• Mosstown House, outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of mainly two-storey outbuildings previously associated with Mosstown House (now demolished), built c.1800. Three-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront with integral carriage arches to centre of northern range. Complex now partially derelict with building to southwest of complex in use a private house. Hipped and pitched natural slate roofs with remains of cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. A number of buildings now roofless and out of use. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with extensive ashlar limestone trim including dressings to openings. Pedimented breakfront section constructed of ashlar limestone. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone surrounds and sills, some chamfered, with remains of cast-iron lattice, timber sliding sash and timber casement windows. uPVC windows to section in use as a private house. Square-headed doorcase to private house, with cut stone surround and timber panelled door. Located to the rear (southwest) of the site of Mosstown House. Main entrance gates to the east comprising surviving sections of cast-iron railings, gates now gone. Remains of walled garden, with rubble limestone walls, to the southeast. Located to the southeast of Ballymore.

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

Name

Mosstown Demesne

Area

569,111 m² (56.91 ha, 140.63 acres)

Civil parish

Killare, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Killare, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown, Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown, Ballyclogher, Rowe Or Toordillon, Taghnafearagh

Placenames

Mosstown Demesne 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.