Simonstown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Simonstown, from 1,721 m² to 128,880 m² (12.89 ha, 31.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Simonstown 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  to decommission existing septic tank and soak hole and foul sewer pipework serving existing dwelling and to replace with new foul sewer pipework connected to a new pumped tertiary wastewater treatment system with coco filter and infiltration bed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660278

• 29 Aug 2024N/a

  Retention Permission for a Shed to the Rear of Existing Dwelling House

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2460305

• 1 Oct 2021Refused

  To construct a new agricultural entrance to public road and all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21535

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  for permission to construct a new agricultural entrance to public road, to install a cattle pen containing collection pen, holding and sorting pens, loading chute and crush, to alter existing residential entrance to my family home and all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2168

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a slatted shed which includes loose cattle area/cattle handling facilities and ancillary site works (concrete yard and farm road) in extension of existing farmyard with improvements to visibility sightlines to existing farmyard road entrance

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206258

• 2 Jan 2018Conditional

  demolition of an existing dwelling and replacement with 1 no. storey & a half dwelling, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, modifications to the existing site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186001

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 Simonstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM026-068 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture with rock outcrop. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. There are some small rock outcroppings scattered across this field although they do not seem to form any coherent plan. Possible monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-088 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated on top of a small ridge running N-S, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Monument described in 1978 as a small roughly circular-shaped sod-covered mound (diam. 8m) of earth and small stones. The top of the mound is uneven and there is a slight depression in the centre. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• WM026-089 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in pasture, in the SE angle formed by the junction of four field boundaries. Described in the terrier of the 1657 Down Survey map of Enniscoffy parish map as ‘upon Symonstowne stands a castle’ (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the castle stood on lands belonging to Walter Tyrell who is listed as an 'Irish papist' and owner of the adjoining townland of Stonestowne (ibid.). Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building annotated ‘Simonstown Castle (in Ruins)’ within a large rectangular-shaped bawn (WM026-089001-). Simonstown Castle described in 1978 as a two storey high rectangular-shaped building with its long axis aligned E-W, with the N and E wall being the highest (approx. max. H 12m). The masonry is of roughly hewn limestone blocks with dressed quoins. There is a possible turret on the NW corner which is not clearly visible due to being obscured by a dense cover of ivy. The N wall (L 15m) has a base batter approximately half way up its surviving height. An exposed garderobe chute is visible in the NE corner. A small rectangular window opening is visible at its E end. The E wall (T 2.3m) has three small, rough loops at different positions which appear to light a mural staircase which survives to first floor level. There is also an opening with a pointed arch high up in the E wall. The S wall contains the main doorway at the E end and a plain rectangular window opening with an internal splay. The W wall (L 8m; T 1.4m) has a modern gap with an arched window overhead. In the NE corner of the ground floor level is a chimney. There is a wicker-centred barrel vault over the ground floor which is well preserved except at the E end. The wicker centring remains on the ground floor walls and in the door opening. The first floor above has a growth of small trees and there is a significant amount of ivy on the walls. This castle probably dates to the 15th or 16th century. There are the ruins of two 19th century buildings; one just outside the castle at S, within the bawn and the second is just outside the bawn at NE is said to be a herdsman’s house of the former estate (local information). Castle described by Salter (2004, 155) as following; 'A battered base has been added to the SW wall of a building originally measuring 14m by 7.6m. A stair in the NW end wall leads from the vaulted basement to just one upper storey, possibly subdivided into two rooms and having a latrine in the west corner'. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• WM026-089001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated in pasture. Bawn of Simonstown Castle (WM026-089----) depicted on Boyd’s Estate Map of 1818 (WCL/M/BBE/7) as being half the size of the rectilinear-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 100m N-S x 58m E-W) shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Tower house (WM026-089----) adjoins half way along the inner E side. Monument described in 1976 and 1978 as a rectangular-shaped enclosure defined by a substantial bank of earth and stone to NE, SE and SW, having no real indication of an external fosse. There is a double bank with a shallow dip along the NW side. The earthwork is best preserved along the NE side where it has a sharp profile and an outward splay at the NE corner, which appears slightly raised. There is a narrow earthen flat platform or terrace-like feature approx. half way up the outer face of the NE bank. This side has an entrance gap at N, outside of which are the ruins of a 19th century house, with yellow brick dressings, said to be a herdsman’s house of the former estate (local information). The interior has an E-facing slope and is slightly uneven with a few stones scattered around the surface. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• WM026-092 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated in pasture. No depiction is visible on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, where the monument is at the join of two OS map sheets and named ‘Cloghstuckagh’. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map, but is located in woodland which is named Cloghstuckagh. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Simonstown.

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 moderately low, 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 Simonstown.

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 Simonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Simonstown

Area

1,448,021 m² (144.8 ha, 357.81 acres)

Civil parish

Enniscoffey, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Gaybrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gaybrook electoral division: 436 people in 133 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beggstown, Gaybrook Demesne, Gibbonstown, Tyrrellstown, Whitewell

Placenames

Simonstown 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.