Williamstown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Williamstown, from 3,956 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) to 125,365 m² (12.54 ha, 30.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Williamstown 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.

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of an extension to the northern and western sides of the existing dwelling, internal alterations to the existing dwelling, replacement of the existing septic tank with a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, demolition of the existing extensions to the north, east and west of the property, demolition of existing agricultural shed to the north of the dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196334

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 Williamstown.

Recorded monuments

• WM007-002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in a farmyard on low-lying pasture-land on the N face of a high ridge running E-W. Lough Derravaragh 1.2km to SW and bog 1.8km to W. No castle is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Mayne parish (NLI MS 723-4). In 1641 the terrier of the Down Survey map of Mayne parish listed the chief proprietor of the lands of Williamstowne as Thomas Fitzsyman(ibid.). Depicted as ‘Castle’ on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, and as ‘Castle (in Ruins)’ on the 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. Poorly-preserved square shaped tower house (ext. dims. 8m E-W; wall T 1m; approx. H 5m) surviving two storeys high built of undressed limestone blocks laid in regular mortared courses with rounded quoins. Only the N wall survives intact along with short stretches of the N ends of the E (L 2m) and W (L 4m) walls. The S half of the castle has been levelled and post-1700 farm buildings have been built up against the external face of the W wall. Remains of a springing for a stone vaulted ground floor roof visible on the inner face of the N wall. Beneath the springing of the vault there is a narrow flat-headed loop or window at ground floor level. Possible traces of a destroyed stairways visible in the NW corner which gave access to upper floors. Above the vault at first floor level there are the remains of a large broken out window visible in the N wall. A blocked up window ope is visible in the E wall at first floor level and a small window ope can also be seen in the W wall at first floor level. Relatively No visible trace of a bawn wall. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 February 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Williamstown.

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

Name

Williamstown

Area

915,719 m² (91.57 ha, 226.28 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Coolure, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Coolure Demesne, Portjack, Simonstown

Placenames

Williamstown 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.