Newpass Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 109117
- Area
- 535,262 m² (53.53 ha, 132.27 acres)
- Buildings
- 7 buildings touch it, 1,711 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
- Newpass Demesne
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
- Newpass House, country house, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey over basement Palladian-style country house, built c.1775, with two-storey extensions to the rear (northwest). Shallow hipped natural slate roof having overhanging sprocketed eaves and two central rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed and squared limestone rubble with projecting ashlar string course at ground floor level, over basement, to entrance front (southeast). Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floor openings and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor. Venetian window to central bay on first floor with tripartite window above to second. Central round-headed tripartite doorcase with channelled cut limestone surrounds having timber panelled door. Fanlight with switch-track tracery having keystone over. Door approached by flight of cut-stone steps flanked by ashlar parapet walls with limestone copping. Basement enclosed by low coursed rubble limestone plinth wall having pedestal blocks, surmounted by urns, at intervals along its length. Set in mature grounds with ha-ha to front and extensive outbuildings (15400502) to rear.
- Newpass House, farmyard complex, stables, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of attached single-storey and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1830, arranged around a central courtyard to rear (northwest) of Newpass House (15400501). Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles. Constructed of coursed rubble-limestone with brick dressings to a number of the openings. Square-headed dormer window openings and circular window openings to first floor of west range with segmental-headed carriage arch to ground floor giving assess to courtyard (not viewed). Doric (distyle in antis) porch having eaves cornice over to north corner of western range.
- Newpass House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Screen gateway, built c.1820, associated with Newpass House (15400501). Comprises central pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square plan), with chamfered plinths to base and moulded ashlar limestone coping/capping over, supporting pair of wrought-iron gates. Central gateway flanked to north and south by flat sections of coursed limestone walling with wrought-iron railings over and then by further sections of limestone screen walling, on quadrant plan, having wrought-iron railings over, terminated by ashlar limestone piers to either end. Located to east of Newpass House at start of long entrance avenue. Remains of gate lodge (15400504) to immediate north.
- Newpass House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Newpass House (15400501), built c.1820, having projecting porch supported on four cast-iron columns creating veranda to front (south). Pitched natural slate roof with a single brick chimneystack to rear (north) having decorative brick cornice and string course. Rendered walls. Round-headed window openings with cut stone sills, curved cut limestone heads and remains of timber sliding sash windows having radial/spoked glazing bars to upper sections. Central round-headed doorcase with cut limestone block-and-start surround having spoke fanlight over. Set back from road to north of associated screen gates (15400503) at start of long entrance avenue to Newpass House to the west.
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
- 53.5 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 535,262 m² (53.53 ha, 132.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Newpass Demesne, from 535,262 m² (53.53 ha, 132.27 acres) to 535,262 m² (53.53 ha, 132.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Newpass 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Newpass 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.
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 Newpass Demesne.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newpass Demesne.
Architectural heritage
- Newpass House, country house, 1760–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey over basement Palladian-style country house, built c.1775, with two-storey extensions to the rear (northwest). Shallow hipped natural slate roof having overhanging sprocketed eaves and two central rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed and squared limestone rubble with projecting ashlar string course at ground floor level, over basement, to entrance front (southeast). Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floor openings and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor. Venetian window to central bay on first floor with tripartite window above to second. Central round-headed tripartite doorcase with channelled cut limestone surrounds having timber panelled door. Fanlight with switch-track tracery having keystone over. Door approached by flight of cut-stone steps flanked by ashlar parapet walls with limestone copping. Basement enclosed by low coursed rubble limestone plinth wall having pedestal blocks, surmounted by urns, at intervals along its length. Set in mature grounds with ha-ha to front and extensive outbuildings (15400502) to rear.
- Newpass House, farmyard complex, stables, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of attached single-storey and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1830, arranged around a central courtyard to rear (northwest) of Newpass House (15400501). Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with clay ridge tiles. Constructed of coursed rubble-limestone with brick dressings to a number of the openings. Square-headed dormer window openings and circular window openings to first floor of west range with segmental-headed carriage arch to ground floor giving assess to courtyard (not viewed). Doric (distyle in antis) porch having eaves cornice over to north corner of western range.
- Newpass House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Screen gateway, built c.1820, associated with Newpass House (15400501). Comprises central pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square plan), with chamfered plinths to base and moulded ashlar limestone coping/capping over, supporting pair of wrought-iron gates. Central gateway flanked to north and south by flat sections of coursed limestone walling with wrought-iron railings over and then by further sections of limestone screen walling, on quadrant plan, having wrought-iron railings over, terminated by ashlar limestone piers to either end. Located to east of Newpass House at start of long entrance avenue. Remains of gate lodge (15400504) to immediate north.
- Newpass House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Newpass House (15400501), built c.1820, having projecting porch supported on four cast-iron columns creating veranda to front (south). Pitched natural slate roof with a single brick chimneystack to rear (north) having decorative brick cornice and string course. Rendered walls. Round-headed window openings with cut stone sills, curved cut limestone heads and remains of timber sliding sash windows having radial/spoked glazing bars to upper sections. Central round-headed doorcase with cut limestone block-and-start surround having spoke fanlight over. Set back from road to north of associated screen gates (15400503) at start of long entrance avenue to Newpass House to the west.
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 Newpass Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Newpass Demesne
- Area
- 535,263 m² (53.53 ha, 132.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Rathowen, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonaboy, Derrydooan Lower, Derrydooan Middle, Derrydooan Upper
- Placenames
- Newpass 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.