Riverstown

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 170 m² to 471,106 m² (47.11 ha, 116.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Killucan Rathwire, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  RETENTION Permission for the following development; as constructed Garage/Store/Stables. Changes made to previously granted garage under planning reference no. 01/888

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660399

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  RETENTION as constructed Garage/Store/Stables. Changes made to previously granted Garage under planning reference no. 01/888

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660384

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for (i) attic conversion to habitable space with 7 number roof windows to side and rear elevations (ii) domestic garage (iii) revised site boundaries and revised location of septic tank and percolation area to that granted under planning ref 065351. Permission to (i) replace and upgrade the existing percolation area (ii) demolish shed/ walled structure to the rear of the site and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560514

• 29 Sept 2025N/a

  Retention Permission for attic conversion to habitable bedrooms with 7 number roof windows to side and rear elevations, retention permission of garage to rear and retention permission for revised site boundaries to previoisly approved and Planning Permission for development to consist of upgrade of existing waste water treatment plant and percolation area and permission for demolition of shed/walled structure to rear garden

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560479

• 25 Aug 2025N/a

  Retention Planning Permission for attic conversion to habitable bedrooms with 7 number roof windows to side and rear elevations, retention of garage to rear and Planning Permission for upgrade of existing waste water treatment plant and percolation area and demolition of shed/walled structure to rear garden

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560424

• 14 Mar 2025N/a

  Retention Planning permission for attic conversion to habitable bedrooms with 7 number roof windows to side and rear elevations, all to existing bungalow and all ancillary works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560107

• 24 Jan 2025N/a

  Retention Planning permission for attic conversion to habitable bedrooms to existing bungalow and all ancillary works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560021

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  construction of (a) a dwelling with converted attic area, (b) a detached domestic garage & store & (c) install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560016

• 29 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a new part single storey/ part storey and a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460269

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of the single storey extension to an existing single storey detached dwelling, the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new proprietary wastewater treatment system, Ecoflo CoCo filter and gravel distribution bed and all ancillary site works. The existing dwelling is a protected structure as listed on the NIAH ref: 15402717

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460125

• 2 Aug 2023Refused

  The development will consist of construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, accessed from a public road (L1007) via widening of existing agricultural gate to a new vehicular entrance, and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360250

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360171

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2297

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21632

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of retention planning permission for existing storage shed and retention of conversion of existing storage shed into home office

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 21230

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  Alterations to the house plans and site layout already granted under planning permission Ref No. 19/6125, and all ancillary site services. The proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage and entrance onto the public road will remain as originally granted.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206161

• 27 Mar 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new storey and a half type dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206082

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  private dwelling house, proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196125

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  proposed single storey dwelling, garage, site entrance and septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196092

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196073

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  demolish existing single storey side extension and construct a large single storey side and rear extension, upgrade septic tank to a streamline BAF PE6 waste water treatment system and a 90sqm pressurised soil percolation filter and to alter and recess main vehicular access.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176051

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM027-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on gentle SE-facing slope, in undulating pasture, with restricted views. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a bank best preserved from W-N-NNE and from ESE-SE with several small disturbance gaps. There is no visible trace of an external fosse. A very wide gap (Wth at top 8.4m; Wth at base 4.7m) at SSE may represent the entrance. The interior has a SSE-facing slope and there are traces of cultivation ridges running NNW-SSE. A field report from 1971 noted a low earthen bank extending from the centre of the monument to the enclosing bank at WNW. There is a large quarried depression just outside the bank from ESE-SE. A field boundary running NW-SE intersects the monument at SW. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 06 November 2019

• WM027-018 Cist
  Description

  Cahill and Sikora (2011, 54752) record that ‘in late April 1969 a short cist containing an inhumation and a bowl was found during ploughing on a farm near Killucan, Co. Westmeath. The discovery was made when the plough struck the capstone at a depth of 0.2m and broke it into three pieces. When a piece of the stone was removed, the cist and its contents were revealed. In attempting to remove the vessel, the skeleton was disturbed and the vessel shattered. The site was reported to the NMI by Mrs Ruth Vandeleur of Wardenstown, Co. Meath, and a rescue investigation was undertaken by John Waddell. This report is based on Waddell's account of the site. The human remains were examined by Laureen Buckley. The cist was in the townland of Riverstown, south-east Co. Westmeath, just 5km west of the Meath border. The site was a gently rounded gravel hillock approximately 90m above sea level. In 1963 a short cist containing a bowl and a cremation was excavated in the neighbouring townland of Mill Land (Rynne 1964,114), and another early Bronze Age cist is known from Balrowan townland, approximately 1km north-west of that at Riverstown. Further north, at Huntingdon, a cist containing a crouched skeleton was discovered (Waddell 1990,150). While investigating the cist burial, the landowner informed Waddell that a farmer in the neighbouring farm, also in Riverstown townland, had ploughed up some human remains the previous year. No further information was available. The short cist was rectangular in plan, with its long axis aligned east/west. It measured 1.2m long by 0.6m wide by 0.61m deep internally. The northern and southern walls were each formed of a single edge-set slab, while that at the east was formed of two slabs placed parallel to each other. The innermost slab was somewhat irregular in form; its straight edge was placed uppermost and it effectively sealed the upper half of the eastern end of the cist. The consequent gap at the base of the eastern end was filled with small rounded boulders. The western end of the cist was formed of a single rounded boulder onto which a single course of rounded stones had been placed. The cist was sealed by a rectangular capstone, which, when complete, measured 1.6m long by 1.2m wide by 0.27m thick. The floor of the cist was paved with small flat slabs, averaging 0.2m long by 0.15m wide by 0.06m thick. The cist contained a crouched inhumation of an older adult male (1969:672) tripartite bowl. The body lay on its right side with the head in the eastern end, facing north. The bones of the skeleton, a male aged over 50 at death, had only been slightly disturber discovery, and the skull and long bones lay more or less in their presumed original position. The smaller bones, notably of the hands and feet, and apparently some of the vertebrae disintegrated. The left hand of the skeleton was flexed at right angles to the upper arm and lay across the abdomen, and the end of the ulna and the radius almost touched the sherds vessel. The bowl had originally stood mouth upwards between the chest of the body an northern side wall. A sample of collagen produced a date of 3645±30 BP,348 which calibrates to 2134-1926 BC at 95.4% probability. Brindley (2007, 245) places this vessel in stage 2 of the development of bowl tradition pottery, which is dated to 2080-1980 BC'. Date of upload: 13 August 2012

• WM027-020 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 69-70) as following: ‘Large, heavily eroded ring-barrow (Diam. 33.2 N-S x 32.8m E-W) in very low relief, comprising a low roughly circular domed mound (Diam. 20m N-S x 18.7m -EW) surrounded by a shallow, poorly defined ditch and what appear to be the remains of an external bank which is now broad, almost flattened and very difficult to discern. Although neither ASI fieldworker who saw the site in the 1970s refer to a bank—the 17/5/71 account, headed ‘Platform barrow?’, describes the site as ‘A small circular or sub-circular low, smooth sided platform surrounded by a wide shallow fosse’ [SMR file]—an outer bank is nonetheless clearly depicted on the 1838 OS 6” map. Where ditch is deepest and best preserved at SE, it is sunk 0.74m below mound and 0.11m below bank. When the site was visited by the ASI on 17/5/71, it had ‘been ploughed recently and it supports corn now’ [SMR file], indicating that the monument was more pronounced until quite recently. Barrow is situated in undulating pasture that has been under the plough in the recent past, and which slopes down very gently, but noticeably, from WNW-ESE; it lies a short distance N of the Royal Canal, just S of which again passes the main railway from Dublin to Sligo. Immediately to W is a crescent-shaped hollow with high back wall to N and low bank forming mouth on lower S side, which is marked on 1838 OS 6” map; this type of feature, taken to be artificial—in one case a quarry—by ASI fieldworkers on 17/5/71 and 22/7/76 [SMR file], is common in the Westmeath landscape and found near other barrows (WM013-016----; WM020-015----), and appears to be a ‘dead-ice hollow’ where a fragment of ice left by a retreating glacier was embedded in the gravel and silt at the front of glacier, and then melted away (pers. comm. Seamus O’Brien). Monument forms part of a loose grouping of four ring-barrows, lying c. 200m to NW of a second similar, but slightly smaller, one in this townland (WM027-021----), and c. 280m to E of a third in Porterstown (WM027-019----); the fourth ring-barrow, also in Porterstown (WM027-036----) lies across the canal c. 600m to SW. On a gently rounded glacial hillock in Riverstown, on slightly more elevated ground (OD 90-100m) c. 950m to N, ploughing in 1969 uncovered a short rectangular cist containing a crouched skeleton with Early Bronze Age Bowl Food Vessel; radiocarbon assay of the bones yielded a date of 3645±30 BP, falling well within the date range of c. 2200-c. 1800 BC for these vessels (Ó Ríordáin 1972, 234-5; Waddell 1990, 154; Brindley 2007, 67, 74, Table 6). Although the other nearby ring-barrows are visible, overall visibility is poor in this low-lying location’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016

• WM027-021 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 70-1) as following: ‘Heavily eroded ring-barrow (Diam. 26.1m N-S x 29.5m E-W) in very low relief, comprising a low roughly circular domed mound (Diam. 13.9m N-S x 13.5m E-W) surrounded by a shallow, poorly defined ditch, and an external bank that is broad, almost flattened and difficult to discern. Where best preserved, ditch is sunk 0.4m below mound and 0.22m below bank. There is an old beech growing in ditch at SSE; part of the stump of a second with saw marks lies at interface of mound and ditch at NW, the ground has been disturbed here, presumably when the tree collapsed or was felled. Barrow caps or is shaped from a low eminence (kame?) 90m W of a kettle-hole lake, in undulating pasture immediately N of the Royal Canal, just S of which again passes the main railway from Dublin to Sligo. Monument forms part of a loose grouping of four ring-barrows, lying c. 200m to SE of a second similar but slightly larger one in this townland (WM027-021----) and c. 500m from a third example in Porterstown (WM027-019----); a fourth ring-barrow, also in Porterstown (WM027-036----), lies across the canal c. 700m to WSW. On a gently rounded glacial hillock in Riverstown, on slightly higher ground (OD 90-100m) c. 950m to N, ploughing in 1969 uncovered a short rectangular cist containing a crouched skeleton with Early Bronze Age Bowl Food Vessel; radiocarbon assay of the bones yielded a date of 3645±30 BP, falling clearly within the date range of c. 2200-c. 1800 BC for these vessels (Ó Ríordáin 1972, 234-5; Waddell 1990, 154; Brindley 2007, 67, 74, Table 6). Although the other nearby ring-barrows are visible, overall visibility is poor in this low-lying location’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016

• WM027-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described as a small circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a tree-lined steep scarp with faint traces of a wide external fosse. The scarp may have been steepened when the trees were planted. The perimeter is disturbed in several places by livestock and tree roots. The original entrance is not recognisable, although there is a large gap at SE. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 06 November 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).

• Riverstown, Killucan10 sales

Name

Riverstown

Area

1,832,838 m² (183.28 ha, 452.9 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Killucan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinla, Correllstown, Grehanstown, Mill Land, Porterstown (cooke)

Placenames

Riverstown 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.