Streamstown

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Streamstown, from 121 m² to 612,386 m² (61.24 ha, 151.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Streamstown 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.

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling with detached domestic garage & install a wastewater treatment system and peculation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460450

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  construction of one number detached single storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to upgrade existing entrance to public road, to install a mini treatment system and polishing filter , to connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360443

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  construction of a farm dwelling and domestic garage. Permission is also sought for the following: to install a treatment system and percolation area, for permission to upgrade existing farm entrance together with the construction of a new domestic site entrance, to erect new site boundaries and for all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360382

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  (1) Construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate loose bedded calf accommodation and feed passage areas (2) Construction of open cattle handling yard to incorporate slatted areas, underground slurry storage tanks, holding pens, drafting areas and cattle circulation areas, (3) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures together with the retention of an agricultural slatted shed extension incorporating slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, bedded areas, feed and link passages and underground slurry storage tanks

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360259

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  development which will consist of constructing a new farm gate access to local road L5730 and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2343

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  construction of one number detached single storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to construct new entrance to public road, to install a septic tank and percolation area, to connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360070

• 30 May 2022N/a

  demolition of 71sqm rear extension and construction of 412sqm two storey extension to the side and rear elevations to create 6 bedroom dwelling. Including new septic tank and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22290

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  of the 3 no. existing agricultural sheds, (2) up grading of original entrance and (3) all ancillary site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 176144

• 29 Mar 2017Refused

  construct one no. detached dwelling, one no. detached garage, new entrance to public road, install a septic tank and percolation area, connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176092

• 3 Mar 2017Refused

  construct one number detached dormer type dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, new entrance to public road, install a septic tank and percolation area, connect to existing public watermain and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176071

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Derravaragh SPA 004043
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684

Recorded monuments

• WM007-089 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland on E shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. Cropmark of semi-circular shaped area (diam. c. 32m) defined by a ditch with open area to SW visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Depicted a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp on OSi 25 inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2023

• WM012-206 Chapel
  Description

  Chapel dedicated to St. Eyen, situated on SW facing slope of Knockeyon the summit of which lies 245m to the NNE and overlooks Lough Derravaragh 65m to the SW. Described in 1682 by Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh as following; 'This hill hath on that side which hangeth over the water, and about midway from it to the top, an ancient chapel dedicated to a saint, called Eyen or Keyon. This chapel is cut out of the natural rock, for all one side of it appears to be the natural stone instead of a wall. It is now, and long hath been, without a roof: it hath in it a curious purling brook of crystal water (WM012-206001-), which issuing out of the rock side of the chapel, traverseth it, and falling thro' the opposite side wall, hasteneth down to the waters below. To this chapel from the land side leads a pathway on the side of the hill; the nearer you approach to it, the narrower doth the way grow; at last, and at a good distance from it, the way appeareth hewn out of the rock side, rendered easy and safe by the trees, which, as aforesaid, rise from the water, and range over one another, and hem up the way so close, that there is no danger either to slip or fall. To this chapel, on first Sunday in harvest, the natives pay their devotions in pilgrimages, which for certain stages they undertake barefoot; but when they come to a certain noted place in the way, they hold on the remainder of their devotion on their bare knees, all along to the chapel, on stone and gravel, intermixed and overgrown with heath and grass. Their devotions performed, they return merry and shod, no longer concerned for those sins that were the cause of this so severe a penance; but as if, having now paid off the old score, they longed to go on in the new again, they return in all haste to a green spot of ground on the east side of the hill towards the land, and here men and women fall a dancing and carousing the rest of the day; for ale sellers in great numbers on these days have their booths here as in a fair, and to be sure the merry bag-pipers fail not to pay their attendance' (Vallancey 1786, 12-14). In the late 19th century Reverend Cogan (1867, 440) recorded that 'Midway up the hill there is the shell of an old chapel, cut out of the rock, which was dedicated to St. Eyen or Keyon, one of the saints of the early period of our church. A holy well (WM012-206001-) is here, one much frequented. The people made pilgrimages to this place on the first Sunday of August, and performed a variety of penitential exercises. Stations were held here, and the neighbouring priests attended to hear confessions, and to prepare the pilgrims for the sacrament of the Eucharist'. Annotated as 'Chapel' on the OS maps this structure is situated within a dense woodland. Only the footings of this building remain (pers. comm. Aidan Walsh). Depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small rectangular building aligned on a NW-SE axis standing at the intersection point of four woodland pathways. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 December 2016

• WM012-206001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Possible holy well located inside chapel (WM012-206---) dedicated to St. Eyen, situated on SW facing slope of Knockeyon the summit of which lies 245m to the NNE and overlooks Lough Derravaragh 65m to the SW. Described in 1682 by Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh as following; 'This hill hath on that side which hangeth over the water, and about midway from it to the top, an ancient chapel dedicated to a saint, called Eyen or Keyon. This chapel is cut out of the natural rock, for all one side of it appears to be the natural stone instead of a wall. It is now, and long hath been, without a roof: it hath in it a curious purling brook of crystal water, which issuing out of the rock side of the chapel, traverseth it, and falling thro' the opposite side wall, hasteneth down to the waters below' (Vallancey 1786, 12-14). Pilgrimage to this chapel and well was described in 1682 as following; 'To this chapel, on first Sunday in harvest, the natives pay their devotions in pilgrimages, which for certain stages they undertake barefoot; but when they come to a certain noted place in the way, they hold on the remainder of their devotion on their bare knees, all along to the chapel, on stone and gravel, intermixed and overgrown with heath and grass. Their devotions performed, they return merry and shod, no longer concerned for those sins that were the cause of this so severe a penance; but as if, having now paid off the old score, they longed to go on in the new again, they return in all haste to a green spot of ground on the east side of the hill towards the land, and here men and women fall a dancing and carousing the rest of the day; for ale sellers in great numbers on these days have their booths here as in a fair, and to be sure the merry bag-pipers fail not to pay their attendance' (Vallancey 1786, 12-14). In the late 19th century Reverend Cogan (1867, 440) recorded that 'A holy well is here, one much frequented. The people made pilgrimages to this place on the first Sunday of August, and performed a variety of penitential exercises. Stations were held here, and the neighbouring priests attended to hear confessions, and to prepare the pilgrims for the sacrament of the Eucharist'. This well was known locally as 'Cabhra Well' and the following folklore about the well was recorded in the late1930s from Carley School in Crooked Wood which stated that on Knockeyon there was 'A "wishing" well on the alter stone of St Eyon's Chapel. This well was visited on 1st Sunday in August. This custom has ceased. Pins, hairpins, garters, coppers are left at the well' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 324). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 February 2017

• WM012-209 Quarry
  Description

  Quarry face located just 75m S of the summit of Knockeyon Hill (OD 710 ft / 215m) on S facing slope overlooking Lough Derravaragh from SSE-S-W-NW. The shoreline of Lough Derravaragh is 250m to the SW. Church (WM012-026----) dedicated to St. Eyon located 130m to SW. Exposed limestone and chert cliff face (L 75m NE-SW) running roughly NE-SW depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. This exposed semi-circular shaped cliff-faces (L 10m; D 0.3m) appear to be the site of a chert quarry possibly dating from the Mesolithic period (O'Sullivan et. al. 2007, 36-7; Little 2009, 130). The exposed rock face has been described as quarried feature which 'chase bands of festooned chert through the surrounding limestone and in some places disappear under the modern sloping ground surface. Immediately below these cut or quarried features there is a wide and extensive scree slope of chert stretching down into the oak and hazel woods of the hill' (ibid., 37). This 'festoon' chert is different from the usual black glassy or very fine-grained chert and can be identified from its characteristic feature of thin dark lines in loops and rings through the dark brown chert. In 2006 a site visit by Aimee Little and Dr. Matthew Parkes of the Natural History Museum of Ireland discovered several pieces of chert amongst the scree at the base of the outcrop which showed signs of secondary working suggesting that they were late Mesolithic in date; pick like forms were also identified amongst the scree (ibid.). Dr Parkes identified several areas on the face of the chert outcrop which appear to have been quarried, as there was no natural explanation for the type of bed recession visible (ibid., 37-8). It has been suggested that the festooned chert Mesolithic tools excavated at Clonava Island (WM006-065----) located 8.6km to the NW may have been quarried from Knockeyon Hill (ibid., 38-9; Little 2014, 2). The late Mesolithic wetland site at Corralanna (WM002-035----) is 12.5km to the NNW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 February 2017

Architectural heritage

• Streamstown House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having a two-storey wing attached to the north end of the front façade (east) and a two-storey return to the rear (west) at the south end. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and having rendered chimneystacks to either end of the main block. Rubble stone bellcote retaining early bell and a raised cut stone verge to the north end of the two-storey wing to the north. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Rubble stone construction to rear return having pointed-arched openings with replacement fittings. Central round-headed doorway to the main block having a timber panelled door with a fanlight over having intersecting tracery. Pointed segmental-headed carriage arch having cut stone voussoirs to the rear elevation of the wing to the north. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Castlepollard and located close to the eastern shores of Lough Derravaragh. Main entrance gates to the east, comprising a pair of roughly squared rubble limestone gate piers (on square-plan with capstones over) supporting a pair of wrought-iron gates. Complex of rubble stone outbuildings to the rear (west) having pitched natural slate roofs, square-headed window and door openings and segmental-headed carriage arches with cut stone voussoirs.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Streamstown.

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

Name

Streamstown

Area

1,935,970 m² (193.6 ha, 478.39 acres)

Civil parish

Faughalstown, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Faughalstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Faughalstown electoral division: 296 people in 98 households; 95% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrynagarragh, Gartlandstown, Milltown, Ranahinch, Ringstown

Placenames

Streamstown 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.