Rahinmore

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahinmore, from 166 m² to 124,225 m² (12.42 ha, 30.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Rahinmore 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.

• 15 Aug 2025Refused

  development which will consist of the following: • Continue the use of a quarry over an area of 4.939 ha to a maximum depth and reduced floor level of 80.000m. Excavation of sand and gravel will take place over an area of 4.71 Ha; • It is proposed to continue extraction activities in the authorized existing quarry as already granted by An Bord Pleanála (Ref no. 25.SU.0002), void above the water table, and to laterally extend the existing quarry void to the north/northwest; • The proposed duration of excavation is 10 years, to reflect anticipated extraction of remaining reserves and depending on market conditions and a further 3 years for restoration; • Inclusion of all site screening and landscaping works including end of operation restoration to agricultural use; • The development will consist of removal of approximately 400,000m3 of sand and gravel from the site via the public road. The excavated material will comprise sand and gravel which will be extracted by mechanical means. The extracted sand and gravel material will be transported to an onsite central plant area for washing, grading and processing as per NSAI certification; • The infill and restoration of the existing end of life quarry excavated areas with approximately 250,000m3 of clean inert soil and stone (375,000 tonnes assuming a density of 1.5) to restore the lands to agricultural uses as required under the conditions of the Substitute Consent granted in 2013 and not undertaken by the previous operator. The infill would be completed under an Article 27 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No 126 of 2011) or under a local authority waste facility permit under the Waste Management Act 1996-2008; •Installation of a new site entrance, access track and lockable gates; •Installation of a wheel wash, and temporary portaloo toilets (self-contained) and hard standing quarantine area with a cubic meter skip; • Reuse of existing weighbridge onsite, use of entrance, internal access, existing buildings and facilities; and • All other associated site works and ancillary activities, including site management, security fencing, internal surface water management, and road management including approaching passing bays

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560409

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  construct a slatted shed with concrete area and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176059

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: Split Hills and Long Hill Esker SAC 001831
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Split Hills And Long Hill Esker 001831

Recorded monuments

• WM038-009 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial subcircular-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 68m ENE-WSW; 58m NNW-SSE) adjoining the S side of a ‘Corn & Tuck Mill’ complex. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped enclosure which is open to the mill complex at N. Levelled monument is visible today as a large suboval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 December 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).

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

Name

Rahinmore · An Ráithín Mór

Area

687,466 m² (68.75 ha, 169.88 acres)

Civil parish

Newtown, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Ballynagore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghyrassy, Ardmorney, Cumminstown, Knockmore, Loughanlewnaght

Placenames

Rahinmore 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.