Rowlandstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowlandstown, from 267 m² to 747,968 m² (74.8 ha, 184.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rowlandstown 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 Rowlandstown 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 Rowlandstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-014 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in grassland. The road which forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask lies 30m to N. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 Map of Westmeath. No trace of an antiquity visible at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

• WM017-015 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on the N face of a natural hillock. Earthworks (WM017-019----/WM017-020----) 160m and 200m to SSE and SE respectively. Local information suggests that a ‘cave’ was found at the bend in the road when it was being constructed. This road is also forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask. No trace of a souterrain is now visible at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Mearscourt House, country house, 1750–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over basement Palladian country house, built c.1760, possibly incorporating the remains of earlier buildings, including a Medieval tower house. Now in use as a guesthouse. Hipped natural slate roof partially hidden behind raised parapet with ashlar limestone coping over. Pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to centre. Roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (diminishing in size towards top) with cut stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sash windows to first and second floor openings and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor openings. Moulded ashlar limestone architraves having entablatures over to ground floor openings, raised dressed limestone surrounds with keystones to first floor openings and plain dressed limestone surrounds to second floor openings. Central ashlar limestone pedimented Doric doorcase with glazed timber double-doors and sidelights to south façade (entrance) with Venetian window over to first floor and Diocletian above the second floor. Flight of cut limestone steps, flanked by low plinth walls (with ashlar limestone coping) to east and west, give access to main entrance. Set back from road in extensive parkland demesne grounds with complex of outbuildings/stable block (154017012) to west and a walled garden to the rear (15401713).

• Mearscourt House, stables, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable block on U-shaped plan, built c.1840, comprising two-storey ranges to east and west with a three-bay two-storey advanced pedimented three-bay two-storey section to centre of north range with cupola over. Located to west side of Meares Court. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with cut stone chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar limestone trim. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and plain ashlar surrounds having paired multipane timber casement windows. Square-headed doorcases with dressed limestone lintels over supported on ashlar brackets having mixture of timber panelled and timber sheeted doors. Three segmental-headed carriage arches to pedimented section to north, comprising central entrance flanked by coach houses to east and west. Cut limestone gate piers on square plan and wrought-iron double-gates to south giving access to courtyard.with to the west of Meares Court.

• Mearscourt House, walled garden, 1760–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled Gardens, built between c.1760 and c.1850, to the rear (north) of Meares Court (15401711). Constructed of coursed rubble stone walling to the exterior with brick-lining to a number of the interior faces.

• Mearscourt House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1680–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Meares Court, erected c.1760, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan (with basemoulds) with ashlar limestone capstones (in the form of full entablatures) over having ball finials. Cast-iron double gates. Pedestrian entrance to the west of main gates, comprising square-headed ashlar limestone doorcase with moulded architraves having cornice over supported on carved limestone brackets, c.1700. Gateway and doorcase set in section of rubble limestone estate wall to the south of Meares Court and adjacent to attendant gate lodge (west).

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Rowlandstown.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

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

Name

Rowlandstown

Area

1,181,032 m² (118.1 ha, 291.84 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skeagh electoral division: 259 people in 97 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnabohy, Balrath, Bigfurze, Curraghboy, Jordanstown, Lisnacask, Paddinstown Upper, Rathcastle, Sheean

Placenames

Rowlandstown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.