Priesttown
Townland in the civil parish of Killucan, barony of Farbill, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 94294
- Area
- 425,032 m² (42.5 ha, 105.03 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 1,364 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
- Priesttown
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM020-055 Building
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope, in undulating pasture. St Patrick's or Scardan holy well (WM020-056----) lies c. 150m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building aligned on an E-W axis. Annotated 'Ruin' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. According to local folklore this area known as Scarden is closely connected with St. Patrick and 'is mentioned by O'Donovan in his "Letters" as the place called Scártán - a little brake where St. Patrick stopped on his way to Clonard' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 018). According to the Schools' manuscripts 'The well comes from a hill on its South side and track and trenches and mounds indicate remains of a building of some sort and probably a graveyard' (ibid.). Site of building mentioned above in the Schools' Collection of 1938 and described in 1981 as only the foundation courses of a rectangular shaped house or building can be traced amongst very dense growth. The ruin is probably that of an old cottage. It is in close proximity to the holy well although there are no known associations between the two. Levelled site described in 1983 as the area occupied by the building has been levelled and only a small pile of loose stones and small boulders which lie against the field fence to SW and E, may represent debris from this field clearance. In the field, to south of this ‘ruin' a low scarp with traces of a very low earthen bank on its edge can be traced forming a wide arc. This one may be the remains of the northern part of a circular or oval enclosure. No definite traces of the east, south or SW points of such an enclosure can be traced. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 July 2019
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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.