Simonstown
Townland in the civil parish of Mayne, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 108291
- Area
- 4,567 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 123 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Simonstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 114.9 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 2,986 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Simonstown, from 15 m² to 394,333 m² (39.43 ha, 97.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Dec 2024N/a
RETENTION for change of use of existing Holidays homes building (granted under planning Reference No. 99/368) to revert to original agricultural uses
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2460472
8 Nov 2024N/a
change of use of existing Holidays homes building (granted under planning Reference No. 99/368) to revert to original agricultural uses
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460433
22 May 2020N/a
A 10 year permission to upgrade, reorientation and expansion of previously permitted electricity substation granted as part of Coole Wind Farm (Pl. Ref 17/6292; ABP Ref PL25M/300686) in the townland of Camagh (Fore by). The laying of underground cabling predominantly along the public road corridor to facilitate the connection to the national grid of the permitted wind farm along a route measuring approximately 26.4 kilometres, through the townlands listed below, between the proposed substation in the townland of Camagh (Fore by) and the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown (Moyashel and Magheradernon by). Works to complete the cable connection to the existing Mullingar 110kV electricity substation including the construction of a dedicated bay within the existing substation compound in the townland of Irishtown(Moyashel and Magheradernon by). All associated site works and ancillary development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206121
3 Apr 2019Refused
private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary services
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196094
27 Feb 2019Conditional
construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicles, underground slatted slurry tank, flow channel and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196045
12 Dec 2018Refused
private dwelling house, proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186372
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Simonstown.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Simonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Simonstown
- Area
- 1,149,449 m² (114.94 ha, 284.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Coole, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinealoe, Carn, Coolure Demesne, Lispopple, Mayne, Williamstown
- 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. 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.