Slieveboy

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slieveboy, from 321 m² to 162,463 m² (16.25 ha, 40.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Slieveboy 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  development which will consist of the demolition of existing rear extension and front porch, the construction of a two-storey extension to the rear and a single-storey extension to the west side of existing dwelling, including a detached single storey garage, increase in ridge height to existing dwelling, existing septic tank and percolation area to be maintained and upgraded, and all associated site works. The application includes RETENTION permission for the temporary widening of the existing agricultural entrance with hardcore laid to facilitate periodic access to the site and placement of a temporary mobile home onsite until completion of works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660436

• 10 Mar 2026N/a

  development which will consist of the demolition of existing rear extension and front porch, the construction of a two-storey extension to the rear and a single-storey extension to the west side of existing dwelling, including a detached single storey garage, increase in ridge height to existing dwelling, existing septic tank and percolation area to be maintained and upgraded, and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660100

• 7 Feb 2026N/a

  development will consist of the construction of a two storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling, to include a detached garage, maintenance of existing septic tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660036

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of permission to construct a single-storey dwelling (161.1sq m) and domestic garage (40 sq m). Permission is also sought for the demolition of the existing outbuilding on site, the installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, together with upgrading the existing entrance to a domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460123

• 20 Sept 2023N/a

  (1) Extension and renovation of existing building on site to a private dwelling house, (2) install a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, (3) upgrade and re-use existing entrance onto public road (4) and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360313

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  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, 196277

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  erection of a storey and a half style dwelling house of circa 256.55 sqm, open a new site entrance, domestic garage/store, a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196006

• 23 Oct 2018Conditional

  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, 186318

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 Slieveboy.

Recorded monuments

• WM007-011 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 71) as following: ‘Roughly circular, fairly well-preserved ring-barrow (Diam. 23.5m NNE-SSW), comprising a flat-topped, steep-sided platform (Diam. 11m NNE-SSW) surrounded by a broad, deep, flat-based ditch, and, where best preserved, by a broad, flat-topped outer bank. For a stretch of 10m at NNW, bank appears to have been mostly removed and the ditch filled in. On NE side, where it appears also to have been damaged, bank bulges outwards and is most massive, possibly incorporating spoil from removal of adjoining stretch of bank at NNW. Although bank and ditch are densely overgrown on W side, visible parts of ditch are fairly uniform in width (2.8m (NE), 2.7m (SE), 2.7m (SW)); the slightly broader range of corresponding measurements for the bank (4.5m (NE), 4.2m (SE), 4.0m (SW)) are attributable to differential erosion of its exterior. Bank rises up to 0.5m above external ground level and up to 1.15m above ditch on E side, and up to 0.2m above central platform on NE side. Barrow is located on level summit of hill in uncultivated land at SW corner of very large ploughed field; the prospect is good, with barrow-cemetery at Lakill and Moortown (WM007-013----; WM007-018----) visible to E, and but for vegetation, the view to W, where the land falls away most sharply, would be superb’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland c. 1977. Date of upload: 10 February 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Slieveboy.

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.

• Slieveboy, Castlepollard6 sales

Name

Slieveboy

Area

1,999,072 m² (199.91 ha, 493.98 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgarve, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Kinturk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinturk electoral division: 1,508 people in 585 households; 65% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caslanakirka, Glen, Lakill And Moortown, Loughanalla, Loughanavagh Or Newpark, Loughpark, Srunahella, Teevrevagh, Townparks

Placenames

Slieveboy 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.