Newcastle

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle, from 11 m² to 196,230 m² (19.62 ha, 48.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Newcastle 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a new two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560512

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  the upgrade and extension of existing dwelling and to upgrade existing entrance to public road , to replace existing septic tank and soak hole with new septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460131

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half extension to the side of our existing house to include on ground floor an entrance hall, hot press, stairs, w.c., kitchen, dining and living room with patio area and on the first floor a landing with opening, bathroom and two bedrooms one with en-suite and velux and a walk in wardrobe and to decommission existing septic tank and to install a new septic tank with percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186336

• 26 Jan 2018Refused

  construction of a bungalow. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and percolation area, to erect new site boundaries and to construct a new site entrance onto the public road together with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186015

• 28 Jul 2017N/a

  Permission to construct a bungalow and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and percolation area, to erect new site boundaries and to construct a new site entrance onto the public road together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176209

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 Newcastle.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-053 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  The remains of a large multi-period castle that is difficult to examine as it has been incorporated into the S angle of a 19th century farmyard range of outbuildings adjoining the S side of Newcastle House. Salter (2004, 153) described this castle as a '13th century hall-house 15.m long by 10.2m wide over a battered base which contained just one room over a pair of vaults supported upon a longitudinal cross-wall which was probably a later insertion. The whole of the northern corner and adjoining walls and that end of the vaults are missing. Just part of the SW wall and a projecting wing or turret remain of a later extension to the NW'. The castle was described in 1983 as a rectangular tower (ext. dims. 10.5m NE-SW; c. 8m NW-SE) standing two storeys high (c. H 7-8m) with two stone vaulted chambers aligned NW-SE at ground floor level. The NE chamber has been altered to form an entrance gateway into the courtyard of Newcastle House. A keystone over the arch of the gateway on the SE face bears the inscription ‘RCC Esq. 1855’. In the SE wall of the tower there are the remains of a poorly preserved mural stairs which gave access to the first floor level. The SW wall of the castle runs for a total length of 23m extending beyond the rectangular tower. The inner NE face of this wall possesses a blocked up door and window opes all of which appear to be later 19th century rebuilding and associated with the farmyard outbuildings. In the 19th century the medieval SW wall was reused as the external wall of the SW range of the farmyard outbuildings of Newcastle House. At the NW end of the medieval section of the SW wall are the remains of a small square-shaped garderobe tower that projects outwards beyond the face of the SW wall. A garderobe outlet is visible in this tower at ground floor level. To the W of the garderobe tower are the remains of an 18th or 19th century horse mill. The projecting garderobe tower is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as located midway along a rectangular building aligned NW-SE with rectangular tower at SE end. This larger building may have formed the footprint of the medieval castle of which only the rectangular tower, section of SW wall and garderobe tower survives. The castle was placed on the Register of Historic Monuments in 1984. This castle is depicted as a tower house type fortification on the 1657 Down Survey map of Newtown and Clonfad parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the 1657 parish map of Clonfad records that ‘upon the lands of Newcastle stands a Castle’ (ibid.). The castle and lands of Newcastle in 1640 belonged to Thomas Tirrell (Tyrrell) an Irish papist (ibid.) whose lands were forfeited after the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641-53. The forfeited lands of Newcastle were granted in 1666 to Alderman Thomas Hooke who was mayor of Dublin in 1654. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 2 December 2016

• WM033-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent rise of ground with good views. Ringfort (WM033-059----) located 185m to the E. Circular-shaped area (diam. 43.5m N-S; 43.5m E-W) defined by a substantial earthen bank covered in trees and bushes and wide flat-bottomed fosse with low external bank that appears to have been altered from SSE-S-W-WNW when a trench was dug around the outside of the bank. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at E, modern gap in outer bank at WNW. A public road running roughly N-S intersects the ringfort on the E side causing damage to the external bank of the monument. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Newcastle House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built or rebuilt c.1851, having an advanced three-storey bay to the centre of the entrance façade (east). Remains of earlier house, c.1740, and a tower house (WM033-053---), built c.1640, to the rear (west). All structures now derelict. Roof now collapsed, originally hidden behind raised battlemented parapets with English-style crenellations. Pitched natural slate roof to earlier house to rear. Coursed rubble limestone construction with cement render over. Raised stone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings to main body of building with moulded architraved surrounds, cut stone sills and the remains of timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings with curved corners to the projecting breakfront having moulded architraved surrounds, cut stone sills and the remains of paired timber sliding sash windows with margined glazing bars. Earlier three-storey house to the rear (west) having pitched natural slate roof with a large central rendered chimneystack, lime rendered walls and square-headed window openings with single and paired two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Remains of tower house and possible remains of bawn wall and early bawn buildings to the southwest. Extensive complex of single and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) and to the southwest. Set well back from road in extensive grounds with main entrance gates and an altered former gate lodge (15403314) to the east. Vernacular gate piers (on circular plan) and wrought-iron bar gates located to the southeast of the complex. Located to the northeast of Tyrrellspass.

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

Name

Newcastle

Area

2,053,380 m² (205.34 ha, 507.4 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfad, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Ballykilmore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilmore, Garrane, Gneevebane, Meedian, Piercetown, Rathgarrett, Templeoran North, Tyrrellspass

Placenames

Newcastle 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.