Windmill or Blackislands

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmill or Blackislands, from 13 m² to 193,102 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Windmill or Blackislands 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.

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  extension to existing dwelling at front to include a living and dining area with two velux windows and at the rear an en-suite and wardrobe and two velux windows with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660333

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  Extension of Duration to construct a dwelling house with treatment system & percolation area with ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 263

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a dwelling house with treatment system & percolation area with ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21465

• 13 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission for bungalow with proprietary waste water treatment system with raised percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206321

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 Windmill or Blackislands.

Recorded monuments

• WM026-101 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in a small field of rough pasture which is enclosed by forestry to S, W and N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a much modified C-shaped earthwork, which is open to ESE. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography as it is in the shadow of nearby forestry to S. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 04 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windmill or Blackislands.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Windmill or Blackislands.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Windmill or Blackislands with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Windmill or Blackislands · Baile na gCloch

Area

614,048 m² (61.4 ha, 151.73 acres)

Civil parish

Enniscoffey, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Enniscoffey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniscoffey electoral division: 431 people in 148 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellfield or Brannockstown, Claremount or Cummingstown, Corcloon, Gallstown, Rathcam or Lemongrove

Placenames

Windmill or Blackislands on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.