Paddinstown Upper

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paddinstown Upper, from 733 m² to 171,043 m² (17.1 ha, 42.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Paddinstown Upper 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with slatted area, feed passage and ancillary concrete area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560571

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  construction of a 28.40sqm sitting room/dining room extension to the west side of our dwelling house along with associated site works. Previous planning reference PL 04/5182 refers to this site

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2320

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  change of house plans, from those that were previously granted for file ref: 21/511 to construct a dwelling house & detached garage with treatment system & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360019

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21511

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176021

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WM010-030 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland. The townland boundary with Paddinstown Upper runs along the boundary of the site at W & S. Annotated as ‘Site of Castle’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible of levelled castle at location marked on 1911 ed.OS map. The location of the 'Site of Castle' marked on the revised 1911 map differs from the location marked on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map (approx. ITM Co-ords 627723/757314). On the latter map the castle site is indicated with a dotted circle located W of a circular curving field boundary. This would place the castle site approx. 50m E of its current location on the 1911 6-inch OS map. However, to the W of the roadway and the site of the castle there is a low rectangular earthwork (approx. dims. 10m x 7m) with some possible earthworks to the N of it which may mark the site of the castle. This earthwork is located at ITM Co-ords 627601/757302. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 June 2017

• WM010-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland with wide views of the surrounding countryside. Ringfort (WM010-027----) 190m to NNE, and site of levelled castle (WM010-030----) 180m to SSE. Depicted as a semi-circular shaped enclosure intersected at E by a roadway running N-S. This roadway forms the townland boundary with Paddinstown Lower. A small sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone and very slight external fosse. The bank forms part of a field boundary from SW-N and has been steepened and faced with stone externally. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NNW-SSE across the interior. There is a vague circular depression (Wth 2.6m) at the centre of the monument which may be the remains of a potato pit. The enclosing element of the site appears to have been levelled from SE-S-SW as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. 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

• WM017-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in low lying wet grassland, with good views all around. The road which forms the townland boundary with Jordanstown lies 70m to W, and the field fence which forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask lies 75m to E. A large sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NNE-SSW) enclosed by two earth and stone banks and an intervening wide deep fosse. The inner bank is quite substantial from SW-N-NE with remains of an inner stone facing at SW, W and N. The outer bank is low and poorly preserved. There is a stone lined entrance gap (Wth 2.4) and a causeway (Wth 3.4m; H 0.75m) with stone revetted sides at NE. The interior rises irregularly towards the centre. 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 Upper.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Paddinstown Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Paddinstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Paddinstown Upper · Baile Pháidín Uachtarach

Area

703,200 m² (70.32 ha, 173.76 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Piercetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Piercetown electoral division: 129 people in 47 households; 93% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Jordanstown, Lisnacask, Paddinstown Lower, Piercetown, Rowlandstown

Placenames

Paddinstown Upper on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.