# Tullystown, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Foyran, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,918,674 m² (191.87 ha, 474.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,219 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Foyran, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/foyran.md - Barony: Fore - Electoral division: Finnea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Finnea electoral division: 248 people in 102 households; 81% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51191 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231308 - Centre: latitude 53.767461, longitude -7.310074 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullystown, from 99 m² to 310,983 m² (31.1 ha, 76.85 acres); 56 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 106051: 310,983 m² (31.1 ha, 76.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106051.md - Parcel 106039: 150,779 m² (15.08 ha, 37.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106039.md - Parcel 106239: 145,455 m² (14.55 ha, 35.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106239.md - Parcel 216667: 139,607 m² (13.96 ha, 34.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216667.md - Parcel 86562: 113,847 m² (11.38 ha, 28.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86562.md - Parcel 105903: 106,749 m² (10.67 ha, 26.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105903.md - Parcel 86577: 101,362 m² (10.14 ha, 25.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86577.md - Parcel 106032: 96,688 m² (9.67 ha, 23.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106032.md - Parcel 86357: 89,805 m² (8.98 ha, 22.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86357.md - Parcel 106031: 78,499 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106031.md - Parcel 106050: 58,853 m² (5.89 ha, 14.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106050.md - Parcel 106026: 57,861 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106026.md - Parcel 106027: 57,723 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106027.md - Parcel 106036: 46,315 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106036.md - Parcel 86353: 46,190 m² (4.62 ha, 11.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86353.md - Parcel 86564: 44,247 m² (4.42 ha, 10.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86564.md - Parcel 86565: 42,724 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86565.md - Parcel 106037: 41,904 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106037.md - Parcel 86360: 40,591 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86360.md - Parcel 105905: 33,080 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105905.md - Parcel 105904: 30,500 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105904.md - Parcel 106230: 17,351 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106230.md - Parcel 106033: 9,021 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106033.md - Parcel 86371: 7,219 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86371.md - Parcel 106029: 4,949 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106029.md - Parcel 106038: 4,272 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106038.md - Parcel 106048: 3,699 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106048.md - Parcel 106028: 3,676 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106028.md - Parcel 106047: 3,419 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106047.md - Parcel 106233: 2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106233.md - Parcel 106083: 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106083.md - Parcel 106034: 2,550 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106034.md - Parcel 86366: 2,518 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86366.md - Parcel 106053: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106053.md - Parcel 86591: 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/86591.md - Parcel 106099: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106099.md - Parcel 106098: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/106098.md - Parcel 86598: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/86598.md - Parcel 5504472: 1,501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5504472.md - Parcel 217957: 1,440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/217957.md - Parcel 217958: 1,415 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/217958.md - Parcel 106040: 1,273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/106040.md - Parcel 106052: 1,070 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/106052.md - Parcel 86363: 952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/86363.md - Parcel 86581: 815 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/86581.md - Parcel 86361: 649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/86361.md - Parcel 106082: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/106082.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tullystown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Apr 2018, Westmeath County Council 186129: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Existing front porch. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/186129/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Moneybeg and Clareisland Bogs SAC, site code 002340, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002340 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin, site code 000987 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM001-014: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-014----. Depicted as a tower house type castle in the townland of Ballintullagh [Tullystown] on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey recorded that the owner of the castle and lands of Ballintullagh [Tullystown] in 1641 was James Nugent who is listed as an English Protestant (ibid.). The remains of a poorly preserved rectangular-shaped tower house (approx. int. dims. 6m N-S x 4.8m E-W) survives in the farmyard to the S of Tullystown House. All that remains upstanding are the S and W walls of the tower house which have been incorporated into a range of post-1700 farm buildings. The tower house may have stood three storeys high and has rounded corners visible on the SW angle with a base batter visible on the W wall (L 7.2m; H c. 7m; wall T 1.2-1.4m). No windows visible in the ground floor of the upstanding walls, a niche is visible in the S wall. A broken out fireplace and chimney flue has been inserted into the internal face of the S wall (L 8.5m; H c. 7m) in a second building phase. At first floor level there is evidence of a blocked-up window in the W wall. The chimney flue of the inserted fireplace cuts across an original window of which a single window splay still survives in the S wall at first floor level. Cut-stone from the tower house has been re-used in the construction of the post-1700 farm buildings. A square-headed slit window of 15th or 16th century style has been re-used in one of the farm buildings. It has been suggested that the walled garden to the W of the tower house incorporates portions of the original bawn wall (WM001-014001-). To the N of the castle is Tullystown House, an early 19th century house of 2 storeys over a basement 3 bays with a central breakfront & good doorway with fanlight & sidelights. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-014001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-014001-. Depicted as a tower house type castle in the townland of Ballintullagh [Tullystown] on the 1657 Down Survey map of Fore Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey recorded that the owner of the castle and lands of Ballintullagh [Tullystown] in 1641 was James Nugent who is listed as an English Protestant (ibid.). The remains of a poorly preserved rectangular-shaped tower house (WM001-014----) survives in the farmyard to the S of Tullystown House. To the W of the tower house a walled enclosure (approx. dims. 60m E-W x 62m N-S) has been used as a walled garden of 19th century date. The wall has been repaired in places and this appears to be 19th century work & a gateway inserted in the north wall. Part of this garden wall appears to be older than the 19th century and may be the remains of a bawn wall contemporaneous with the tower house. A second enclosure (dims. 40m N-S x 110m E-W) to the S and SE of the tower house also has ancient walls which again were repaired in 19th century with a range of 19th century farm buildings built up against the N side of the wall. Fragments of dressed stone work occur in several of the farm buildings & a square-headed slit window of 15th or 16th century style has been re-used in one of the farm buildings. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-015: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-015----. Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 72) as following: ‘Monument could not be seen from the roadside, and landowners later informed the survey-team that they could never see anything at the location marked. Although it could not be located on 26/7/79 due to high grass, it has been described on two subsequent occasions by different ASI fieldworkers. The account of 7/4/81: A small circular earthwork outlined by a shallow circular fosse enclosing a level interior. There is no indication of a bank. The site slopes very slightly from NE-SW. The area around the site is crossed by old cultivation ridges running NE-SW, & the site has been somewhat defaced by these. It is likely that any trace of a bank would have been removed by the cultivation. Sited on the top of a large prominent natural ridge running NW-SE. The ridge has a broad flat top. Located in pasture land with other ridges to the E, S & W, but with low lying bog to the N & NW.... [SMR file] And that of 1997: The site is located on top of a low rise with excellent views over bogland towards Lough Sheelin to the north-west. Condition: Poor. The site is very difficult to make out. The site is now under pasture. Description: The site consists of the remains of a ring-barrow. It consists of a low circular mound, c. 5m-5.2m in diameter and c. 20cms in height, surrounded by a fosse. The fosse has an overall width of c. 1.8m. Its base is 20cms in depth beneath external ground level. [SMR file] An undated, very abbreviated account which appears not to be based on a site visit describes it simply as a ‘small low circular mound of earth is delimited by a shallow fosse which in turn is surrounded by a low earthen bank’ [SMR file]. This account, though it mentions an outer bank, should probably be rejected in favour of those descriptions clearly based on a site visit. From these accounts, this tiny earthwork placed atop a ‘large prominent natural ridge‘ with ‘excellent views over bogland towards Lough Sheelin to the north-west’, might be interpreted as a ring-barrow with the bank flattened by past cultivation. If there never was a bank, the level interior raised 0.2m above ground level, which can be gathered from the 1981 and 1997 accounts suggests that this monument might be either a type of ring-barrow with no external bank or a ditch-barrow, a type more recently identified by ASI fieldworkers’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 10 February 2016 - WM001-021: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-021----. Situated in area of scrub and woodland on W facing slope of hill, with ringfort (WM001-022----) 90m to SW. A heavily overgrown ringfort consisting of a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 54m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with a deep intervening external fosse and entrance gap (top Wth 5.1m; base Wth 1.6m) at E. The massive inner bank has several gaps due to erosion and is much disturbed by tree roots and animal burrows. Evidence for internal drystone facing of the inner bank near the entrance gap. There are remains of a rectangular house (WM001-021001-) against the inside of the bank at the W side of the entrance gap. The outer bank is only visible from N-E and may be a later enclosing feature possibly associated with the area of woodland in which the monument is located. Compiled by Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-021001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-021001-. Situated in area of scrub and woodland on W facing slope of hill, with ringfort (WM001-022----) 90m to SW. A heavily overgrown ringfort (WM001-021----) with the grass-covered wall footings (Wth 1.4m; H 0.6m) of a rectangular house (int. L 5m x int. Wth 4.4m), the S end of which is built up against the inner face of the bank immediately W of the ringfort entrance gap at E. The house has a wide gap in its E side at its SE corner and a narrow gap near the middle of the W side. Some stones are visible in the bank of the house but there is no visible evidence of masonry. Compiled by Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-022: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-022----. Situated in hazel woodland on top of a ridge running NW-SE, in area of undulating countryside with ringfort (WM001-021---) 90m to NE. A heavily overgrown platform type ringfort consists of a raised circular area (diam. 26.5m) enclosed by a massive earth and stone bank and shallow fosse best preserved at E & W with causewayed entrance gap (top Wth 2.5m; bottom Wth 0.9m) at N. The interior of the site is somewhat uneven and contains the remains of a rectangular house (WM001-022001-). There are slight remains of a low external bank but it has been almost completely levelled. The rath is largely overgrown with hazel and briars making detailed examination impossible. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-022001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-022001-. Situated in hazel woodland on top of a ridge running NW-SE, in area of undulating countryside with ringfort (WM001-021---) 90m to NE. A heavily overgrown platform type ringfort (WM001-022----) with the grass covered wall footings (Wth 0.9m) of a rectangular house (int. L 9.6m x int. Wth 3.5m) aligned ENE-WSW in the interior. The rath is largely overgrown with hazel and briars making detailed examination impossible. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-023----. Situated on a rise of ground in undulating countryside with excellent views to W, restricted views by surrounding hills in other directions. Ringfort (WM001-022----) 360m to NNW, second ringfort (WM001-025----) 390m to SSE. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map the W side of the ringfort is intersected by a laneway running N-S. This laneway appears to cut across the W side of the enclosure creating the irregular-shaped monument depicted on the revised 1911 ed. 25 inch map. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. 38.8m NE-SW; 33.4m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank best preserved from W to N, elsewhere mainly reduced to a scarp with straight side at S. No visible trace of an enclosing fosse. A gap (Wth 2.2-4.4m) at E probably represents the original entrance feature. A modern field fence intersects the site at W on a N-S axis. The interior is uneven, rising from the perimeter towards the centre. There is evidence of disturbance from quarrying and there are slight traces of old cultivation ridges running NW-SE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 - WM001-024: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-024----. No surface remains visible of standing stone which is depicted beside the 'Pound' and W of the road on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair plan map (ASI File). The 'Pound' but not the standing stone is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The standing stone was located in close proximity to the pound. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 November 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Tullystown National School, school, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15400103, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15400103. Detached three-bay single-storey former national school, built c.1840, with projecting single-bay gable-fronted porch to front façade (west). Lean-to extension to north side. Now derelict and out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack to either end. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills having paired multi-pane timber casement windows to main body of building and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to front face to porch (west). Square-headed opening to north face of porch having timber sheeted door. Set back from road own grounds adjacent to rural road junction and site of early nineteenth century Roman Catholic chapel (demolished). - Tullystown House, house, 1780–1850, Regional interest, registry number 15400112, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15400112. Detached three-bay two-storey single-pile house, built c.1800 and altered c.1840, with projecting single-bay breakfront to front façade (north). Two-storey return to the rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with raised cut stone verges to edges and a pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to centre. Lime roughcast rendered walls, randomly scored, over a projecting plinth with a projecting ashlar limestone sill course at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with timber transoms and mullions forming three-over-three arrangement, cut stone sills to ground floor openings. Central segmental-headed doorcase having cut limestone surround with integrated sidelights and a 'spider's web' fanlight over. Replacement timber panelled double-doors reached by flight of cut stone steps. Set back from road with extensive ranges of outbuildings to southeast (15400113). Main entrance to the south. - Tullystown House, outbuilding, 1600–1850, Regional interest, registry number 15400113, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15400113. Complex of two-storey outbuildings, arranged around a central courtyard, to the rear (southeast) of Tullystown House (15400112). Now largely ruinous and out of use. Contains later medieval fabric (WM001-014---). Roofs now largely missing, originally pitched natural slate roofs. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with dressed limestone surrounds to the openings. Evidence of original lime render survives, Square-headed door and window openings and segmental-headed carriage arches with dressed limestone voussoirs. Window and door fittings now gone. Loop hole openings. Substantial rubble limestone boundary wall encloses site to south. Possible walled garden to the west end of site. Located to the east of Finnea and in close proximity to the border with Co. Meath to the north and east. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullystown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullystown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullystown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullystown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tullystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnagross: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnagross.md - Ballynascarry: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballynascarry.md - Foyran: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/foyran.md - Money: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/money.md - Moneybeg: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/moneybeg.md - Mullaghmeen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mullaghmeen.md - Rathshane: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rathshane.md - Tullyhill: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullyhill.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullystown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/tullystown