Southhill

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Southhill, from 1,018 m² to 296,210 m² (29.62 ha, 73.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Southhill 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.

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission for the provision of 2no x 80m2 detached prefabricated classrooms and all associated site services and works. The proposed classrooms are to be in place for a temporary time period only and are to be located within the carpark area of St Mary's Hospital. The property and its curtilage is a protected structure, Ref No. 014-016, NIAH 15401401 refers

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21159

• 29 Jan 2021N/a

  The development consists of the installation of temporary accommodation comprising of 2 no. x 80m2 prefabricated classrooms, boundary treatment and all associated site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2142

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 Southhill.

Recorded monuments

• WM014-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock on the demesne lands of South Hill House located 520m to E. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval enclosure planted with trees within an outer oval enclosure, annotated as ‘fort’. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 24m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse and external fosse. The interior slopes from NW-SE. Tree stumps are visible around the perimeter of the monument. Depicted as a landscaped tree-ring on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Could be the remains of a ringfort reused as a tree-ring or could be the remains of a landscape feature associated with South Hill house. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018

• WM014-007 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Situated on N face of a low gravel ridge which runs N-S, with extensive views. The road which marks the boundary with Mitchelstown townland lies 20m to NE. A flat-topped, steep sided mound of earth and stone (top diam. 9m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) enclosed by a shallow fosse and external bank. The bank and fosse have been levelled at N and W. There is a low causeway across the fosse at S. Classification of this monument is uncertain and it has been suggested that the mound could represent the remains of a small Anglo-Norman motte castle (ASI Report 22/02/1980). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018

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).

No address of the register names Southhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Southhill

Area

705,433 m² (70.54 ha, 174.32 acres)

Civil parish

Castletowndelvin, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Rosmead, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balrath North, Balrath South, Castletowndelvin, Clonmaskill, Mitchelstown

Placenames

Southhill 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.