Mylestown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mylestown, from 752 m² to 241,560 m² (24.16 ha, 59.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mylestown 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.

• 16 Jun 2021N/a

  The development will consist of planning permission to extend two of the existing poultry units and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21338

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission to a detached single storey home office (34m2) to rear of existing dwelling.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21341

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 Mylestown.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a hillock, in pasture, with good views from SE-S-SSW. Monument described in 1970-2 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 30m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank (base Wth 4.5m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.8m) is visible all around except at the SE due to quarrying activity. There is a slight fosse visible from WNW-N. The interior has a gentle SW-facing slope and the SE quadrant has been quarried away. Monument is barely visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

• WM020-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a hill, in pasture, with good views from S-SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970-2 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 25.5m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from WSW-NNW and is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere. The U-shaped fosse is only visible from W-N-E. No entrance feature visible. The interior has a gentle SW-facing slope and there are broad cultivation ridges running NE-SW across it. Levelled ringfort is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle, and fluted ogee-dome cap with finial over. Located adjacent to small bridge and close to a road junction to the northwest of Raharney. Concrete slabs and drain to front (east).

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

Name

Mylestown

Area

586,259 m² (58.63 ha, 144.87 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Raharney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Clonreagh, Corbetstown, Creggstown, Higginstown, Joristown Lower, Killucan, Simonstown

Placenames

Mylestown 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.