Skeheen (Evans)

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeheen (Evans), from 277 m² to 161,931 m² (16.19 ha, 40.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Skeheen (Evans) 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.

• 30 May 2023N/a

  development which will consist of the construction of a part single storey, part two storey dwelling house, the installation of a sewerage treatment system with a percolation area and all other associated works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2380

• 13 Jan 2020Conditional

  Retention of a residential entrance onto the public road. Retention of a timber-framed dwelling house, a septic tank and percolation area. Planning permission to change the external finish of the existing structure from timber effect cladding to a render finish with stone-cladded plinth. Planning permission is sought to extend the existing timber-framed dwelling house with the addition of a stable block to the north-east side. Planning permission is sought for a change of use of the existing derelict house on site to provide for a tack room and storage shed to serve the proposed stable block. Planning permission is also sought for all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207003

• 22 Aug 2019N/a

  Retention of works to existing residential entrance to public road together with retention of a timber framed dwelling house, a septic tank and a percolation area. Planning permission is sought to extend the existing timber frame dwelling house with the addition of a stable block to the north east side. Planning permission is sought for a change of use of the existing derelict house on site to provide for a tack room and storage shed to serve the proposed stable block. Planning permission is also sought for all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197175

• 17 Jun 2019N/a

  Retention of an existing dwelling house with septic tank & vehicular access. Permission for construction of a new stable block to attach to existing dwelling house. Permission to refurbish existing derelict house on site to provide for tack room, storage shed & supporting facilities along with covered walkway joining the two buildings and all associated site development work.

  Retention, 2 homes · Westmeath County Council, 197124

• 19 Dec 2018Refused

  The development consists of retention of works to existing residential entrance to public road together with a timber framed dwelling house and a septic tank and percolation area. Retention permission is also sought for all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187240

• 5 Jul 2018Refused

  The development consists of retention of residential entrance to public road together with a timber framed dwelling house and a septic tank and percolation area retention permission is also sought for all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187121

• 22 May 2018N/a

  The development consists of retention of residential entrance to public road together with a timber framed dwelling house and a septic tank and percolation area, retention permission is also sought for all associated site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 187093

• 20 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177208

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 Skeheen (Evans).

Recorded monuments

• WM031-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 44m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a slight external fosse and possible entrance gap at E. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and a house site (WM031-063001-) is visible in the centre. A number of boulders protrude from the surface in the S quadrant, yet form no definite plan. Some old field banks adjoin the earthwork at N. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 21 November 2019

• WM031-063001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. In the centre of ringfort (WM031-063----) is the outline of a rectangular-shaped house. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 25 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skeheen (Evans).

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 Skeheen (Evans).

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 Skeheen (Evans) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Skeheen (Evans)

Area

535,533 m² (53.55 ha, 132.33 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Streamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Streamstown electoral division: 517 people in 139 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamullen, Bunanagh, Cloghanaskaw, Kilpatrick, Monaduff, Sraduff, Streamstown

Placenames

Skeheen (Evans) 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.