Williamstown (rochford)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Williamstown (rochford), from 328 m² to 171,671 m² (17.17 ha, 42.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Williamstown (rochford) 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission for construction of: 1. three bay fodder storage shed 2. four bay cattle housing unit with underground storage tank and 3. provision for solar panels on both proposed buildings and all site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560313

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 (rochford).

Recorded monuments

• WM013-057003 Font
  Description

  Medieval parish church dedicated to St. Lonán whose feast day fell on the 12th of November (Ó Riain 2011, 403). The medieval parish church and graveyard may have been built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Lonán. Only the ivy-covered SW gable of the medieval parish church of Killulagh (WM013-057----) stands in the SW quadrant of an oval-shaped graveyard (WM013-057001-) which is entered through a gateway and stone stile at SW. A section of the octagonal shaft which supported the medieval font (WM013-057003-) and bullaun stone (WM013-057004-) are located just inside the graveyard gateway and stile on the N side. The octagonal shaped shaft with central drain hole supported the octagonal shape bowl of the font. The bowl of the medieval font has been removed from the graveyard and now lies in the grounds of St. John the Baptist's R.C. Church located 240m to the SSE. The font lies to the E of the E gable of the 19th century church and rests on a cut stone of post-1700 date with water stoup of uncertain antiquity lying beside the font. A section of the octagonal shaped shaft (H 0.28m x Wth 0.11m) with central drainage hole (diam. 0.07m) stands on a later column immediately inside the gateway of Killulagh graveyard. The octagonal shaped vessel (H 0.4m; ext. diam. 0.6m; T 0.08m) located E of the E gable of the 19th century R.C. church consists of a circular-shaped basin (diam. 0.46m; D 0.21m; T 0.08m) with a central drain hole (diam. 0.1-0.06m). The underside of the font is chamfered and decorated with four bull nosed chamfer stops. The flat square shaped panels (H 0.23m) are dressed with a similar tooling pattern to the octagonal shaft in Killulagh graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 6 April 2018

• WM013-061 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on slight rise in grassland. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). No surface remains visible of any monument at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 April 2018

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 (rochford) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Williamstown (rochford)

Area

657,512 m² (65.75 ha, 162.47 acres)

Civil parish

Killulagh, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Hiskinstown, Killulagh, Mulchanstown, Williamstown (briscoe)

Placenames

Williamstown (rochford) 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.