Parcellstown
Townland in the civil parish of Rathconrath, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 50.1 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 250,803 m² (25.08 ha, 61.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parcellstown, from 57,693 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres) to 443,912 m² (44.39 ha, 109.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Parcellstown 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
23 Jun 2026N/a
1. Construction of the proposed (145m x 90m) Training grass playing Pitch with 8 number light posts 24-meter-high (achieving 500 lux) to the Southwest of the site. 2. Construction of 3m wide walkways (Approx. 370m length) to be constructed around the Proposed training pitch. 3. Construction of a 35 number light posts 6 meters high along all walkways including the proposed on site. 4. Construction of two dugouts on the southwest side of the proposed training pitch. 5. Construction of a proposed viewing stand located northeast on the proposed training pitch. 6. Construction of a proposed car park consisting of 75 No car parking spaces to be finished with tarmac finish and all associated ancillary site works at the above address. 7. Extension of the existing walkway to the north of the site to provide vehicular access, widened from 5m to 6.2m
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660332
25 Feb 2026Conditional
the Construction of a slatted shed and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards) all for agricultural purposes only in extension of existing farmyard area
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660076
11 Apr 2025Conditional
1. Construction of 8 number light posts 24-meter-high (achieving 500 lux) on the existing playing pitch. 2. Construction of the proposed (146.5m x 58.3m) Training playing Pitch with 8 number light posts 20-meter-high (achieving 300 lux) to the South west of the site. 3. Construction of the proposed (60m x 40m) Astro Turf Pitch with 4 number light posts 12- meter-high (achieving 300 lux) to the east of the site. 4. Construction of the proposed 25m x 9.6m Viewing Stand including a storeroom to the northwest of the site. 5. Construction of (5m high x 20m in length) Hurling wall located on the South-East side on site. 6. Construction of 3m wide walkways (360m length) to be constructed around the Proposed training and astro turf pitches 7. Proposed carpark consisting 69 No carparking spaces to be finished with tarmac finish and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560174
28 Mar 2025N/a
1. Construction of 8 number light posts 24-meter-high (achieving 500 lux) on the existing pitch. 2. Construction of the proposed (146.5m x 58.3m) Training Pitch with 8 number light posts 20-meter-high (achieving 500 lux). 3. Construction of the proposed (60m x 40m) AstroTurf Pitch with 4 number light posts 12-meter-high (achieving 500 lux). 4. Construction of the proposed 25m x 9.6m Viewing Stand including a storeroom. 5. Proposed (5m high x 20m in length) Hurling wall located on the South-East side on site
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560141
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 Parcellstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Parcellstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parcellstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Parcellstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Parcellstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Parcellstown
- Area
- 501,352 m² (50.14 ha, 123.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathconrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Rathconrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathconrath electoral division: 400 people in 136 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlug, Cleggarnagh, Farthingstown, Milltown
- Placenames
- Parcellstown 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.