Priesttown
Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 93797
- Area
- 96,912 m² (9.69 ha, 23.95 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Priesttown
Planning applications on this parcel
24 Aug 2026N/a
development which will consist of refurbishment works to 24.2 kilometres (km) of OHL; comprising provision of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers; replacement of 73 no. pole-sets/poles; replacement of 9 no. pole-set cross arms only; refurbishment work to 19 no. wooden pole-sets; and the treatment and painting of 2 no. steel towers. These structures (No’s. 182-299) and the associated OHL lie between where the OHL crosses the border into County Westmeath in the townland of Grange More, to where the OHL ties-in to the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown, crossing the County Westmeath townlands of Grange More, Craddanstown, Joristown Lower, Priesttown, Clonreagh, Corbetstown, Higginstown, Hodgestown, Millerstown, Corbally, Edmondstown, Clonlost, Clonickilvant, Ballycor, Aghadaugh, Killynan (Cooke), Mountrobert, Macetown, Rathconnell, Clonsheever, Culleen Beg, Robinstown (Levinge), Ballyglass and Irishtown. The Proposed Development also includes 1 no. temporary Construction Compound in the townland of Aghadaugh. The refurbishment works in County Westmeath will consist of: the replacement (‘restringing’) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires; the installation of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers and 73 no. wooden pole-sets/poles with similar dimensions and heights as the existing (replacement towers will be no more than 0.5m taller than existing and replacement pole-sets/poles will be no more than 3m taller than existing); installation of replacement parts on towers and pole-sets; foundation refurbishment / strengthening and recapping / clearing of shear blocks; treatment and painting of towers to be retained; all associated site development works, including temporary works areas; clearance of shear block bases; vegetation maintenance works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance and levelling at the 1 no. temporary construction compound; temporary works to existing tracks and new temporary access routes to each structure, one of which is within the curtilage of Millerstown House (protected structure RPS No. 020-050), in the townland of Millerstown; and all associated works required to facilitate the Proposed Development A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660445
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 91 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 137,509 m² (13.75 ha, 33.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priesttown, from 381 m² to 425,032 m² (42.5 ha, 105.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Priesttown 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
24 Aug 2026N/a
development which will consist of refurbishment works to 24.2 kilometres (km) of OHL; comprising provision of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers; replacement of 73 no. pole-sets/poles; replacement of 9 no. pole-set cross arms only; refurbishment work to 19 no. wooden pole-sets; and the treatment and painting of 2 no. steel towers. These structures (No’s. 182-299) and the associated OHL lie between where the OHL crosses the border into County Westmeath in the townland of Grange More, to where the OHL ties-in to the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown, crossing the County Westmeath townlands of Grange More, Craddanstown, Joristown Lower, Priesttown, Clonreagh, Corbetstown, Higginstown, Hodgestown, Millerstown, Corbally, Edmondstown, Clonlost, Clonickilvant, Ballycor, Aghadaugh, Killynan (Cooke), Mountrobert, Macetown, Rathconnell, Clonsheever, Culleen Beg, Robinstown (Levinge), Ballyglass and Irishtown. The Proposed Development also includes 1 no. temporary Construction Compound in the townland of Aghadaugh. The refurbishment works in County Westmeath will consist of: the replacement (‘restringing’) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires; the installation of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers and 73 no. wooden pole-sets/poles with similar dimensions and heights as the existing (replacement towers will be no more than 0.5m taller than existing and replacement pole-sets/poles will be no more than 3m taller than existing); installation of replacement parts on towers and pole-sets; foundation refurbishment / strengthening and recapping / clearing of shear blocks; treatment and painting of towers to be retained; all associated site development works, including temporary works areas; clearance of shear block bases; vegetation maintenance works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance and levelling at the 1 no. temporary construction compound; temporary works to existing tracks and new temporary access routes to each structure, one of which is within the curtilage of Millerstown House (protected structure RPS No. 020-050), in the townland of Millerstown; and all associated works required to facilitate the Proposed Development A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660445
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Priesttown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Priesttown.
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 Priesttown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Priesttown
- Area
- 910,302 m² (91.03 ha, 224.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killucan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farbill
- Electoral division
- Raharney, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaskeagh, Clonreagh, Corbetstown, Craddanstown, Joristown Lower
- Placenames
- Priesttown 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.