Sheepstown

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheepstown, from 505 m² to 385,377 m² (38.54 ha, 95.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Sheepstown 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a single storey residence, proprietary waste water treatment system, domestic garage, entrance and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460500

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  to consist of Permission for a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22242

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 Sheepstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM008-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise on reclaimed grassland with restricted views. Stream forming townland boundary with Archerstown 50m to N. Ringfort (WM008-068---) 330m to WSW. Ringfort (WM008-069---) 320m to SW. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 22m NNE-SSW; 21m WNW-ESE) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and an intervening narrow flat-bottomed fosse. The inner bank has several disturbance gaps, while the outer bank is visible only from ENE-E-S. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 5.3m; H 0.35m) across the fosse at SE. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior of the monument. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. Ringfort appears to be standing in NE quadrant of larger enclosure defined by an irregular shaped fosse or ditch feature visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. This latter feature may be a drainage ditch related to post-1700 land reclamation works. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017

• WM008-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Stream marking townland boundary with Archerstown 240m to N. Ringfort (WM008-067---) 330m to ENE. Ringfort (WM008-069---) 70m to SE. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and intervening wide shallow fosse. The inner bank (Wth 3m; H 0.35m) is best preserved from NW-N-NE. The fosse is best preserved at N & S, while the outer bank is only visible at S. An entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) and causeway (Wth 5m) across the fosse at SW. The interior rises towards the centre, with two vague low broad parallel banks running WNW-ESE in the S quadrant which could possibly represent the remains of a hut site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017

• WM008-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent natural rise in undulating grassland with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-068----) 70m to NW. A slightly raised circular shaped area (diam. 29m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and intervening fosse. The outer bank is only visible at N & W. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at SE. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. There is a possible hut site visible as a slight depression to the S of the centre of the interior. The ground immediately outside the monument has been disturbed by quarrying. The 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map depicts a post-1700 lime-kiln built into SSE perimeter of the ringfort. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017

• WM008-070 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on top of a steep ridge surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with excellent views in all directions. Earthwork (WM008-071----) 230m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular shaped earthwork intersected at N by a field boundary running E-W. Present remains consist of a raised sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 24m N-S x 27m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank. The bank is best preserved at N, and almost completely levelled elsewhere. The interior rises appreciably towards the centre. A curving earthen bank and external fosse cuts off the NE corner of the interior of the monument creating a sub-rectangular area (dims. 5.3m N-S; 5.8m E-W) which could be the remains of a possible house site. There is an entrance gap mid-way along this bank. The external SW side of the monument has been quarried into. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017

• WM008-071 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Possible moated site (WM008-070----) 230m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a trapezoidal shaped field with an adjoining house. This sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 37m NNE-SSW; 27m ESE-WNW) is enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and fosse. This fosse is only visible a NE. Immediately to the N-E-SE there are an extensive series of low banks and fosses forming a settlement earthwork complex covering an area of 2.3 hectares. These earthworks are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. To the S of the rectangular enclosure there is what appears to be the remains of a sunken road running roughly W-E and then turning SE. In the SE corner of the field containing the rectangular enclosure there are cultivation ridges running NE-SW which are confined within a small rectangular shaped field. The earthworks in this field all appear to be related to settlement of uncertain date. They could be contemporaneous with the house depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The dating of this building is uncertain and the antiquity of the earthworks is also unclear. A pond feature is depicted to the N of this building on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and some of these earthworks may be also be related to drainage associated with this pond feature. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1770, having attached single-storey outbuilding to the north end and outbuilding adjoining to the south end of the west-facing elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, with thatch surviving underneath, having single chimneystack to the south end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with render over. Pronounced buttress/base batter to south gable end, facing road. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Byre/outbuilding attached to north end having rubble limestone walls, pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble limestone walls with square-headed window openings having cast-iron windows. House set back from road at a right angle with rubble limestone and rendered walls to road-frontage. Main entrance to west side of house having rubble limestone piers (on square-plan) and modern wrought-iron gates. House located adjacent to the east of Scurlockstown Cross Road.

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).

• Sheepstown, Delvin5 sales

Name

Sheepstown

Area

1,553,829 m² (155.38 ha, 383.96 acres)

Civil parish

Clonarney, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Clonarney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Archerstown, Ballinvally, Mabestown, Mulliganstown, Scurlockstown, Stonestown

Placenames

Sheepstown 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.