# Rochestown, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickbla, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 617,570 m² (61.76 ha, 152.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,915 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickbla, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/lickbla.md - Barony: Fore - Electoral division: Glore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glore electoral division: 186 people in 67 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51203 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231175 - Centre: latitude 53.70707, longitude -7.350084 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rochestown, from 491 m² to 194,929 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2761850: 194,929 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2761850.md - Parcel 131321: 144,900 m² (14.49 ha, 35.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/131321.md - Parcel 134285: 100,807 m² (10.08 ha, 24.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134285.md - Parcel 109437: 48,522 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109437.md - Parcel 133220: 43,425 m² (4.34 ha, 10.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133220.md - Parcel 108149: 22,932 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/108149.md - Parcel 109409: 19,471 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109409.md - Parcel 133564: 15,214 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133564.md - Parcel 134040: 12,915 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134040.md - Parcel 133447: 2,357 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133447.md - Parcel 5667228: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667228.md - Parcel 133412: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133412.md - Parcel 133785: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133785.md - Parcel 108830: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/108830.md - Parcel 109701: 1,917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/109701.md - Parcel 108172: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/108172.md - Parcel 133642: 491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/133642.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rochestown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 11 Nov 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560553: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a storey & a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage & store & install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560553/0 - 30 Jun 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560327: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retention permission to (a) to retain the existing domestic garage consisting of 40Sqm (b) for permission to retain the front porch consisting of 4.9Sqm (c) to retain the rear utility consisting of 3.4Sqm all as per constructed on site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560327/0 - 1 Apr 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560147: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a storey & a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage & store & install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560147/0 - 14 Mar 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560108: N/a. Permission. construction of a storey & a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage & store & install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560108/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rochestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rochestown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rochestown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Rochestown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rochestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rochestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rochestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rochestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynagall: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballynagall-230172.md - Ballynameagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballynameagh.md - Mullagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mullagh.md - Turbotstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/turbotstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rochestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/rochestown