Sarsfieldstown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sarsfieldstown, from 420 m² to 121,768 m² (12.18 ha, 30.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Sarsfieldstown 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.

• 21 Apr 2026Conditional

  (i) to construct a slatted shed with slatted area, ancillary concrete area and pen area (ii) Retention permission for a machinery storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660194

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling (100.2sqm) and to construct one number replacement dwelling house (230sqm) and to upgrade existing agricultural entrance to accommodate as shared agricultural entrance & domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22275

• 6 Apr 2022N/a

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling (100.2sqm) and to construct one number replacement dwelling house (230sqm) and to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to accommodate as shared agricultural entrance & domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22177

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no dwelling, shared entrance onto public road, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21444

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no dwelling, shared entrance onto public road, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21445

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 Sarsfieldstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a hill, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to S. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly subrectangular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970-2 as a subrectangular-shaped area (dims. 35m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a bank (overall Wth 5.3m; Wth at top 0.3m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 1.5m) that is best preserved from ESE-S-W-N-NE and is absent NE-E-ESE where a field boundary running NNW-SSE skirts the site. There are disturbance gaps at NNE, W and NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has an E-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges extending NE and then curving E. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 July 2019

• WM020-122 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in low-lying, poorly drained pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map and annotated ‘Tobermíonad’. Monument described in 1970-2 as a small well enclosed by a large rock and a ruined masonry wall. It is one of two natural springs in the limestone that feed into a stream running S. It is known locally as St Meenan’s Well. The following folklore about this holy well was recorded from Rathwire National School; 'In ancient Glon there was a well in C Connor's field called St. Meenan's well where there was a pattern held on the first Sunday of August' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 355). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 July 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 Sarsfieldstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Sarsfieldstown

Area

300,244 m² (30.02 ha, 74.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Killucan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balrowan (pakenham), Mill Land, Porterstown (cooke), Rathwire Upper

Placenames

Sarsfieldstown 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.