Wardenstown

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wardenstown, from 2,795 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 37,548 m² (3.75 ha, 9.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Wardenstown 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.

• 11 Aug 2017Conditional

  of conservatory area at the side (northeast), dining area at side (southwest) and windows at the rear (southeast). Wardenstown House is a protected structure with RPS No 020-052.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176223

• 21 Mar 2017Conditional

  for a new storey and a half dwellinghouse, domestic garage/store, including the provision of a waste water treatment system to EPA specifications with all necessary ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176084

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 Wardenstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-134 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In a field to rear of an 18th/19th century walled garden associated with Wardenstown House which was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached five-bay two-storey (over basement to rear) country house, built c.1810 possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house c.1740, with modern single-storey over basement extensions to the rear (east)'(www.buildingsofireland.ie). A field annotated ‘Castle Field’ on Lanesboro estate map of 1804 suggests a castle in this area, but no such structure is depicted (NLI, MS 21 F. 47 / (034) ). No castle site depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as no surface remains visible in area known as the 'Castle Field'. No cropmark of any castle site is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. The precise location of this castle has not been identified. The present Wardenstown House could have been built on the site of an earlier castle, however no medieval fabric has been identified in this house or in the outbuildings of the yard belonging to the house. No castle in depicted in this townland on the 1655 Down Survey map of Farbill Barony (NLI MS 723-4). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 July 2019

• WM021-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, 180m W of the River Deel, in undulating pasture with extensive views in all directions. Ringfort (WM021-010----) lies c. 90m to N. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Circular-shaped earthwork depicted on an estate map of Wardenstown (NLI, MS 21 F. 47 (034) ). Monument described in 1980 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 39m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank visible from E-SSE that is reduced to a low scarp from SW-W-N-E-ESE and a slightly sharper scarp from SE-S-SSW. There is no indication of an entrance. A short distance beyond the perimeter, there is a scarp from NW-N-E-SE which can be seen clearly on Digital Globe aerial photography. It is unclear if this forms part of the wider monument. The perimeter has been quarried away from NE-E and the interior has been dug into at W and SW edge, where there are two depressions. The interior rises towards the centre from the N and to a lesser extent from the SE. There are old cultivation ridges running roughly N-S across the interior and similar ridges can be seen in the field to W. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

• WM021-019 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on floodplain of the River Deel located immediately to E. Possible monument visible as a low irregular-shaped earthen mound with curving arc of enclosing bank to S of mound visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Could be the remains of an unclassified barrow due to its morphology and location poorly drained land. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Wardenstown House, country house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey (over basement to rear) country house, built c.1810 possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house c.1740, with modern single-storey over basement extensions to the rear (east). Shallow hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, aligned along roof ridge, having terracotta chimney pots over. Smooth rendered finish to walls. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals, cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows above to first floor openings. Central segmental-headed doorcase to principle facade (west) having replacement timber double doors flanked by sidelights with leaded spider's web fanlight over. Stone steps lead to gravel courtyard (west). Open basement to north side of house bridged by modern concrete walkway from ground-floor to garden. Set back from road in own grounds with extensive complex of single and two-storey rendered rubble stone outbuildings to the rear (east), arranged around a central courtyard, having pitched and/or hipped natural slate roofs, square-headed openings and segmental-headed carriage arches. Outbuilding complex accessed through pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with cut stone capstones over with modern gates, flanked by a square-headed pedestrian entrance with raised stone surround. House abutted to the rear (east) by lime rendered rubble limestone outbuilding having pitched natural slate roof. Further courtyard of outbuildings to the northeast, c.1850, comprising two single-storey open sheds having hipped and/or pitched slate roofs supported on cast-iron columns and a two-bay former barn having hipped natural slate roof, lime rendered walls and segmental-headed carriage arches. Walled garden on rectilinear plan to rear of house (east) having rubble limestone boundary walls. Main entrance to house to the west comprising pair of cut limestone gate piers on square-plan having replacement gates. Located to the south of Raharney and the east of Killucan.

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

Name

Wardenstown

Area

749,306 m² (74.93 ha, 185.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Derrymore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhaw, Brutonstown, Brutonstown Little, Cloghanstown, Curristown, Grange Beg, Raharney

Placenames

Wardenstown 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.