Newcastle

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle, from 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 772,702 m² (77.27 ha, 190.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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.

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  Extension and refurbishment of existing single storey over raised basement dwelling which is a Protected Structure (RPS Ref. No. 003-009). Works to consist of: demolition of existing single storey rear extension at basement level and erection of two storey replacement extension, convert existing door opening at basement level on the front elevation to window opening with new painted timber sliding sash window to match existing, replacement of existing non-original front door and fan light at ground floor level, block up existing door opening at basement level on right (Northeast) elevation and make good render finish, form new window opening at basement level on left (Southwest) elevation with new painted timber sliding sash window to match existing, alterations to existing building layout and elevations, alterations to existing front external ‘area’ at basement level to form enlarged lightwells, enlarge existing opening in stone garden wall at the rear to provide vehicular access and form new entrance and driveway off existing rear farm access lane, provide hard and soft landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560458

• 20 Oct 2017Refused

  Ten year planning permission for a Wind Farm Development with a 30 year operational life (from date of commissioning of the entire wind farm) and all associated works. The proposed Development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. Wind Turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 No. on-site electrical substation (c) 1 No. temporary construction compound (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage (f) excavation of 1 No. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional Roads to facilitate turbine delivery (h) junction improvement works to facilitate turbine delivery, including providing hardsurfacing at the N4 in the vicinity of its junction with the L1927 Local road in the townland of Joanstown and the widening of the L1927 and L5828 junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works (including tree felling). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176292

• 9 Jun 2017N/a

  The proposed wind farm development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 no on-site electrical substation, (c) 1 no. temporary construction compound, (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation, (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage, (f) excavation of 1 no. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional roads to facilitate turbine delivery, including surfacing at the junction of the N4 and L1927 roads in the townland of Joanstown and widening of the L1927 and L5828 Junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works(including tree felling) An Environmental Impact Statement Report (EIAR)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natural Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176177

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

• WM003-001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on top of a low natural ridge running roughly E-W on the demesne lands of Newcastle House 130m to NNW. There is an old quarry depression just N of the tower house. A series of linear cropmarks can be seen in the fields to the S and E of the tower house which appear to be associated with the landscaped demesne of Newcastle House. Tower House type castle depicted standing on low hillock on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Lickbla parish lists Edward Nugent, described as an 'Irish Papist' and the owner of the lands and castle of Newcastle (ibid.). A roughly square-shaped four-storey lobby-entrance tower house (ext. dims. 9.1m x 8.3m E-W; wall T 0.74m-1.8m; approx. H 10m) composed of limestone rubble, with pronounced base-batter (H 2.5m) and dressed quoins. The main entrance consists of a flat headed opening (H 1.8m) now missing original stone surround located off centre to E in NE wall. The main entrance leads into a lobby area protected by overhead murder hole. A pointed doorway in this lobby leads into the main ground floor chamber which is lit by four narrow slit windows. The window in the SW wall is now blocked up. Corbels and beam holes indicate that there was wooden floor above at first floor level. A mural stair, now partly broken through the SE wall gives access to the first & second floors. At first floor level a rectangular flat headed doorway gives access to the main chamber midway along the SE wall. The first floor chamber has two slit opes in the NE wall, one over the lobby area gives access to the murder hole which is in the floor of the window embrasure. There are single slit opes in the NW & SW walls, that in the SW wall is blocked. Angle embrasures at the N & W corners lead to narrow slits which emerge at the extremities of the NW wall. This floor is covered by a stone barrel vaulted ceiling part of which has collapsed. The second floor chamber has narrow windows in the NE, NW & SW walls. There is a second narrow window near the stair in the SW wall. In the E corner there is a broken out doorway giving access to a tiny room above the stair. A broken opening midway along the SE wall leads to a steep stairs giving access to the 3rd floor. A spiral stairs continued in the S corner gives access to the roof & probably an attic floor. The third floor has narrow slit windows in the NE, NW & SW walls & an angle slit now blocked in the W corner. A tiny room in the E corner at third floor level has a corbelled roof & must have been entered via narrow steep steps or a ladder from the entrance off the stair at 2nd floor level. Narrow slits in the E end of the N wall & broken openings in the SE wall gave light to this tiny room. A slit ope located high in the E end of the NE wall indicates another small room above these at 4th floor or attic level. There is no access to this now. There are no remains of fireplaces in the tower house. On the external face of the castle at the W end of the NW wall at second floor level there is a stone head with a flat face now very weathered. There are slight traces of attached structures on the NW side as shown on the 1911 OS 25-inch map which shows a wall running off the W angle of the castle. Depicted as free-standing tower house with no evidence for a bawn wall on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Set into the E end of ridge on which the castle is sited is a circular masonry structure which may have been an ice house. Nearby Newcastle House described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached three-bay single-storey house over a raised basement house, built c.1830. Hipped natural slate roof with a single central ashlar limestone chimneystack, aligned parallel to roof ridge, having terracotta chimney pots over' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 November 2016

• WM003-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a very slight rise in average pasture land on the landscaped demesne of Newcastle House 200m to N, the tree-lined driveway leading up to the house is located immediately W of the site. Tower House (WM003-001----) 90m to NW. Small roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m N-S) defined by a the slight remains of a low earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp and traces of a shallow external fosse with possible entrance gap at SSE. The interior is fairly even and featureless with a very slight slope from W to E. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Its close proximity to Newcastle House may suggest that this circular feature was a possible tree-ring associated with the landscaping of the demesne. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2016

Architectural heritage

• Newcastle, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house over a raised basement house, built c.1830. Hipped natural slate roof with a single central ashlar limestone chimneystack, aligned parallel to roof ridge, having terracotta chimney pots over. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered basement, separated by projecting chamfered string course. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central cut limestone round-headed doorcase having engaged Doric columns over blocks to base and a moulded ashlar limestone architrave (surrounding fanlight) over. Replacement door with replacement fanlight over. Doorcase reached by flight of splayed limestone steps flanked by decorative wrought-iron railings. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with remains of tower house to south. Extensive collection of single and two-storey rubble limestone outbuildings, arranged around two courtyards, to the north and main entrance to the south.

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

1,465,969 m² (146.6 ha, 362.25 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Glore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carlanstown, Clonrobert, Clonsura, Doon, Lickny, Mullagh

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.