Paddinstown Lower

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paddinstown Lower, from 17 m² to 221,181 m² (22.12 ha, 54.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Paddinstown Lower 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.

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  Construct a walled silage pit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21651

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 Paddinstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WM010-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM010-025----) 360m to NE. A slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam 30m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening wide deep fosse. The inner bank is substantial, while the poorly preserved outer bank is only faintly visible from S-W-NW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) and causeway (Wth 5.8m; H 0.6m) through the inner bank and fosse at SSE. The interior slopes slightly from S-N. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on rushy grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. An uneven sub-circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 26m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp revetted with dry stone walling. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior of the monument. An oval shaped depression in the NW quadrant may be the remains of a house site (WM010-025001-). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-025001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on rushy grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. A shallow oval shaped depression (dims and 7.3m N-S; 8.4m E-W) in the NW quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-025---) may be the remains of a hut site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating grassland, with some wet, rushy land in the vicinity. Ringfort (WM010-025----) 160m to N. Ringfort (WM010-024----) 340m to W. A sub-circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 28m N-S) enclosed by an earth & stone bank and a slight external fosse. The bank has several disturbance gaps, and has some areas of dry stone external facing. The fosse also appears to have been steepened in places. The interior of the site rises slightly towards the centre. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with an external fosse. The inner bank is fragmentary, best preserved from NNE-NE & S. The outer bank is visible though fragmentary from E-S-W, and elsewhere has been replaced by a field fence. There is a wide flat intervening space between the banks where they are visible. An L-shaped depression in the interior may represent a souterrain (WM010-027001-). Two lengths of a grass covered bank to the W of centre of the interior may represent a rectangular house site (WM010-027002-), while a second house site (WM010-027003-) is visible in the NE quadrant. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-027001 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. An L shaped depression visible in the interior of a ringfort (WM010-027---) probably represents a collapsed souterrain. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-027002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. Two lengths of an earthen bank visible in the W quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-027---) probably represents the remains of a house site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-027003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. A house site is visible in the NE quadrant of the interior of a ringfort (WM010-027---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise in gently undulating slightly rushy grassland. Ringfort (WM010-029----) 200m to SSE. The Irishtown River which forms the boundary with Lakingstown is 120m to NE. A sub-circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 19m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone and a slight external fosse with entrance gap at ESE (Wth 3.2m). The bank is best preserved from SW-W-WNW and at NNW, but almost completely levelled elsewhere. The fosse is visible from SW-W-N. The interior slopes from N-S and contains vague traces of cultivation ridges. The faint outline of a circular house site (WM010-028001-) is visible in N quadrant. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-028001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise in gently undulating slightly rushy grassland. Ringfort (WM010-029----) 200m to SSE. The Irishtown River which forms the boundary with Lakingstown is 120m to NE. The faint outline of a circular house site (diam. 6.6m) is visible in N quadrant of ringfort (WM010-028---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland, ringfort (WM010-028----) 200m to NNW. Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 36m) enclosed by a bank with gap at NE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2023

• WM017-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W face of a small natural ridge in slightly undulating grassland, with extensive views in all directions. The field fence which forms the townland boundary with Paddinstown Upper lies 50m to S. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map (approx. diam 36m E-W), the N quadrant of the site has been reduced to a scarp in the past (post-1837). An earthen bank and slight external fosse are visible curving from NE-S-W. The interior is level and featureless. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW outside the site to the NW. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Paddinstown Lower.

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

Name

Paddinstown Lower · Baile Pháidín Íochtarach

Area

1,660,197 m² (166.02 ha, 410.24 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Piercetown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Castlegaddery, Irishtown, Lakingstown, Lisnacask, Paddinstown Upper, Piercetown, Rathcaled, Relick (longworth)

Placenames

Paddinstown Lower 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.