Templepatrick

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templepatrick, from 1,996 m² to 1,058,595 m² (105.86 ha, 261.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Templepatrick 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.

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house and detached garage with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207195

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey type dwelling. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and percolation area together with permission to construct a new combined site entrance while closing existing residential access and for all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177091

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 Templepatrick.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-061 Church
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained partially reclaimed pasture. Medieval church dedicated to St. Patrick known locally as Templepatrick. Medieval church ruins stand in the centre of a disused graveyard (WM017-061001-) with a series of low field banks and cultivation ridges in the surrounding fields. Annotated ‘Church’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and located within the centre of a sub-rectangular shaped tree-lined enclosure. Annotated ‘Templepatrick Old Church’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Church now obscured by vegetation inside a sub-rectangular-shaped scrub-covered disused graveyard on Digital Globe aerial photography. The church is not marked on 1657 Down Survey map (NLI, MS 723-4. A cluster of four cabins are depicted at this location on the Down Survey map of Templepatrick parish. The terrier of the parish map stated that there stood ‘on the lands of Templepatrick a mill & some cabins’ (NLI, MS 723-4). According to Rev. Brady (1958, 9), ‘St. Patrick founded a church at Moyvore. In the pre-Reformation diocese of Meath there were fourteen churches dedicated to St. Patrick including that at Moyvore'. Templepatrick may have been the church of Moyvore. Present remains consists of a rectangular church (dims. 13.8m ESE-WNW; 8.1m NNE-SSW) defined by low wall footings with upstanding fragment of the E end of the S wall (Wth 1m) close to SE angle and fragments of the NW and SW corners. There is a buttress built against the N face of the NW corner. There are traces of a window opening toward the E end of the S wall and a small, roughly rectangular niche at the E end of the S wall, suggesting an aumbry or piscina. There are no decorated stones visible. The church is situated within a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (WM017-061001-) containing several 18th and 19th-century headstones. Numerous low banks surround the graveyard on all sides. Some of these banks appear to be the remains of 18th or 19th-century enclosures, however some appear to be more ancient and may present the remains of a field system or dwellings associated with small clustered settlement depicted as this location on the 1657-9 Down Survey map. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2018

• WM017-061001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in partially reclaimed pasture. Templepatrick Church (WM017-061----) located in centre of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard. Annotated as ‘Grave Yard’ on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Visible as a disused sub-rectangular shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Described in 1980 as a sub-rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 48m N-S x 50 E-W) containing several 18th and 19th-century headstones, which are concentrated on the S side of the church. Numerous low banks surround the graveyard on all sides. Some of these banks appear to be the remains of 18th or 19th century enclosures, however some appear to be more ancient and may represent the remains of a clustered settlement depicted on the 1657-9 Down Survey parish map of Templepatrick (NLI, MS 723-4). Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2018

• WM017-061002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  The quadrantal form of the graveyard (WM017-061001-) boundary wall possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 23). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 October 2015

• WM017-090 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  No surface remains visible of medieval mill marked in this townland on the 1659 Down Survey map of Westmeath (NLI, MS 723-4). This mill is depicted on the 1659 Down Survey map of Rathconrath Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). On the 1659 Down Survey map of Templepatrick parish the mill is depicted as a watermill with waterwheel on the gable of the building. The terrier of the Down Survey of Templepatrick parish states that there is on 'the Lands of Templepatrick a Mill and some Cabbins' (NLI, MS 723-4). The Corn Mill depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map is located roughly in the same location as the site of the medieval mill depicted on the Down Survey maps. In 1979 the ASI recorded that the corn mill 'appears to have had tin wheels. One remains. No internal machinery visible' (SMR File 22/06/1979). The present mill at Templepatrick was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as following; 'Detached three-bay two-storey water mill, built c.1820. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof, now collapsed. Coursed rubble limestone walls with brick dressings to openings. Square-headed window and door openings. Central segmental-headed waterwheel arch with brick voussoirs to east elevation. Remains of cast-iron machinery to interior. Ruins of small corn kiln on square plan to adjacent to south. Set back from road in own grounds adjacent to small country road west' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 July 2015

• WM017-112 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 61-2) as following: 'This appears to be the monument identified by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick as a ring-barrow in 1997 [SMR file], but as the survey-team had only very limited time on the site this season, there remains the possibility that there is also a ring-barrow in the area S of Templepatrick church (WM017-061----) and graveyard (WM017-061001-). Roughly circular dished platform (Diam. 7.3m N-S x 8m E-W) surrounded by a ditch up to 1.5m in width, and rising up to 0.4m above ditch where latter is well preserved at NW; ditch is up to 0.20m below ground level at NW side. Upper surface of platform slopes down gently from W to E. Distinctly hollowed centre of platform, 4.3m across N-S, gives the impression of a bank around the edge of the platform, 1.5m in width; as such, if not for the small size of the monument, it would have the appearance of a ringfort. Where cattle have poached the sod at SW side, monument can be seen to be composed almost entirely of earth. Monument lies in undulating pastureland c. 150m to S of disused walled graveyard containing medieval church of Templepatrick (WM017-061----); ruined and overgrown, this unicameral medieval church was found to measure 13.8m x 8.1m during ASI fieldwork in 1980. St. Patrick’s footprint stone was documented outside graveyard in nineteenth century (FitzPatrick 2004, 238). Based on extensive comparative evidence, Leo Swan infers the former presence of an early medieval curvilinear monastic vallum or rampart from the quadrantal shape of the graveyard (Swan 1988, 23). The landscape here shows signs of glaciation, with a reedy depression indicating a probable kettlehole close by to N of the barrow; a second hollow to SW, though now dry ground, might have been another such feature. There is higher ground immediately NW of the monument. A short distance SE of the monument is a bog, now partly planted with trees'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

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

Name

Templepatrick · Teampall Phádraig

Area

1,103,584 m² (110.36 ha, 272.7 acres)

Civil parish

Templepatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Templepatrick, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacartan, Clonnalynagh, Dalystown, Keenoge, Moyvore, Tonlemony

Placenames

Templepatrick 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.