Tullaghan

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullaghan, from 44 m² to 485,045 m² (48.5 ha, 119.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Tullaghan 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  development will consist of extensions to the sides and rear of an existing single storey detached dwelling, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and percolation area, and the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660072

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  Erection of a new silage slab and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206183

• 29 May 2019N/a

  erection of new silage slab and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 196135

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Owel SAC 000688
• Special Protection Area: Lough Owel SPA 004047
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Owel 000688

Recorded monuments

• WM019-004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In 1611 Captain Roger Atkinson was granted 'in Tullaghan otherwise Tullaghewine, 1 ruinous castle, certain messuages, and 1 carew' which was part of the 'estate of Levalian Nugent, attainted' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 214). A castle is depicted standing in the townland of Tullaghan [Tolchan] on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Mullingar parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of this parish map lists Andrew Nugent, an 'Irish Papist' as the owner of the lands of Tullaghan in 1641. Tullaghan Castle belonging to the Nugent family situated in the grounds of Tullaghan House 360m S of the shoreline of Lough Owel. Culleenmore Castle (WM019-0089----) 1.5km to the E, Castlemitchel (WM019-034----) 1.5km to the SSE, and Walshestown Castle (WM018-155----) 2.3km to the SW. Tullaghan House is a late 18th century house with a datestone 1779 and the initials L. N. carved into the lintel over the doorway. To the NE of the house there are the remains of the castle consisting of the low wall footings of a wall (L 7.3m; H 1m) running NNW-SSE with a latter buttress built up against it and a fragment of the SSE corner (approx. H 3m) of the castle. No cut stone fragments or architectural features of medieval date were identified. House described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached six-bay two-storey house, dated 1779. Possibly containing the fabric of an earlier structure. Pitched natural slate roof having two rubble stone chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots over, one chimneystack to the east gable end and one close to the centre. The arrangement of outbuildings to the front of this house is an unusual feature, which together with the substantial chimneystack to the gable end and the unusually long (former) approach avenue to the southeast, hints that this structure may contain earlier fabric. Indeed, a 'castle' is recorded at Tullaghan in the Down Survey (1654-1656) and it is possible that this building may incorporate the fabric of this 'castle' or perhaps a later structure' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). See attached pdf of site visit notes by J. F. Reynolds Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017

• WM019-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, c. 400m to S of Lough Owel, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Annotated 'fort' on the OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a modified suboval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1970 as an almost completely levelled subcircular-shaped area (dims. 49m ESE-WNW; 43m NNE-SSW) defined by a levelled bank which can be traced in places where it is represented by a very slight scarp (H 0.35m). The entrance way is not recognisable. The interior has gentle humps and hollows. Monument is visible today as a suboval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Tullaghan, house, 1770–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, dated 1779. Possibly containing the fabric of an earlier structure. Pitched natural slate roof having two rubble stone chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots over, one chimneystack to the east gable end and one close to the centre. Constructed of roughcast render over rubble limestone walling. Square-headed window openings having stone surrounds, cut stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening with cut stone block-and-start surround having dated lintel, blocks to base, and a timber-panelled door having fanlight over with interesting tracery. Set back from road in extensive grounds with gravel forecourt to south flanked by single-storey rubble limestone outbuildings with further outbuildings to the west. Site is bounded to road edge by rubble stone boundary wall having rubble stone entrance piers with wrought-iron gates. Located to the northwest of Mullingar adjacent to the shores of Lough Owel (north).

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

Name

Tullaghan · An Tulachán

Area

2,528,976 m² (252.9 ha, 624.92 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Tullaghan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard, Farranistick, Irishtown, Walshestown North, Walshestown South

Placenames

Tullaghan 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.