Rowe Or Toordillon

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowe Or Toordillon, from 108 m² to 89,534 m² (8.95 ha, 22.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Rowe Or Toordillon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rowe Or Toordillon 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rowe Or Toordillon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rowe Or Toordillon.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, erected c.1940, comprising seven bay nave, a single-bay chancel to the north, and a three-stage belfry/campanile attached to the west side of the entrance front (south) having a Tuscan belfry stage with copper dome over. Pitched natural slate roof with raised limestone verges to either gable end having cut stone cross finials over. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Entrance front (south) and campanile constructed of channelled ashlar limestone with extensive ashlar trim, including double-height round-headed arch to the centre and raised block quoins to the corners of the front façade, which act as pilasters supporting open bed pediment to gable over). Round-headed window to the round-headed arch to south façade and round-headed openings to either side of nave, all with stained glass windows. Square-headed entrance to the centre of the entrance gable (south) with cut stone surround having timber double doors. Dedication plaque over with flanking scroll details. Main doorcase flanked to the east and the west by a round-headed recess having square-headed window openings. Round-headed statue niche to south face of tower, having statue of St. Brigit, with round-headed openings to belfry over having louvered vents. Simple interior with exposed kingpost roof. Set back from road in own grounds with cast-iron gates and railings to the south. Rubble stone grotto with statue of Virgin Mary to north of church. Located in an elevation site to the southeast of Ballymore.

• Post box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box attached to timber post, erected c.1950, with raised 'P&T' cipher in Gaelic/Celtic Revival script to base. Letter. Box has curved top and information panel to centre below letter slot. Located adjacent to rural cross roads to the west of Boher Roman Catholic church.

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).

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

Name

Rowe Or Toordillon

Area

244,301 m² (24.43 ha, 60.37 acres)

Civil parish

Killare, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Killare, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinive, Ballinkeeny Or Mosstown, Ballinlavan, Ballyclogher, Bessville, Bracknahevla, Clyglass, Killeenbrack, Mosstown Demesne

Placenames

Rowe Or Toordillon 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.