Toorydonnellan

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toorydonnellan, from 0 m² to 108,141 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Toorydonnellan 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 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22435

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  Retention permission for childcare facility and planning permission for decommissioning of exisitng treatment system and replace same with new treatment system and connect with exisitng percolation system and all ancillary site works constructed

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 207133

• 14 Jun 2019Refused

  Construction of a four-bedroom dwelling with garage, effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197123

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  The construction of single storey extensions to side and rear of existing single storey detached dwelling; internal and external alterations to existing dwelling; decommission of existing septic tank and replacement with new packaged wastewater treatment unit with soil polishing filter; and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177075

• 13 Mar 2017N/a

  The construction of single storey extensions to side and rear of existing single storey detached dwelling;internal modifications to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177045

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 Toorydonnellan.

Recorded monuments

• WM036-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise, in pasture, with restricted views to N and S. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork adjoining the public road to S. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank with no trace of an external fosse. The interior has a SW-facing slope. There are a number of small depressions in the W half of the interior and two slightly larger depressions in the E half. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Saint Kieran's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built 1875, having a seven-bay nave with flanking side aisles to the north and south having clerestory over and a canted apse to the south. Projecting single-storey sacristy to the east end of chancel (south). Pitched slate roof, hipped over apse to the south end, having a projecting red brick eaves course. Raised cut stone verge with kneeler stones to eaves over the entrance gable (north) having a cut stone Celtic cross final to the roof apex. Constructed of coursed (almost snecked) rock-faced limestone with flushed dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Dressed limestone construction to side aisles. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered limestone sills, red brick surrounds and leaded stained glass windows to nave, clerestory and chancel openings. Pointed-arched opening with moulded red brick surrounds to the centre of the entrance façade (north), above doorcase, having recessed paired round-headed window openings with a circular window opening over. Pointed arched opening to the centre of the entrance façade (north) at ground floor level with red brick surrounds and having a recessed pair of shallow pointed segmental-headed doorcases with red brick surrounds. Doors separated by a red brick pier having a carved limestone plinth over with a statue of St. Kieran. Date stone over doorcases reads ‘ST KIERANS CHURCH AD 1875, P.KEARNEY P.P.’. Shallow projecting ashlar limestone porch to the north end of side aisle to the west having a moulded Tudor-arched doorcase (with Maltese/St Andrew’s cross detailing over) and with timber sheeted double doors. Interesting interior with timber kingpost roof and having clerestory level resting on Gothic arcades with polished stone columns having moulded capitals over. Church is set back from road in own grounds on an elevated site with a freestanding bronze bell, set on rendered plinth with cast-iron fittings, to the south. Rendered boundary wall to the road frontage having wrought-iron railings over central section. Wrought-iron gates and rendered gate piers on square-plan to front. Flight of steps flanked by wrought-iron railings gives access to raised site of church from entrance gates. Located to the southwest of Moate and to the south of Castledaly National School (15403610).

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).

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

Name

Toorydonnellan

Area

445,590 m² (44.56 ha, 110.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Castledaly, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bolinarra, Bolyconor, Castletown, Clonmore, Kilcleagh

Placenames

Toorydonnellan 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.