# Windmill or Blackislands, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Enniscoffey, barony of Fartullagh, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Baile na gCloch. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 614,048 m² (61.4 ha, 151.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,452 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Enniscoffey, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/enniscoffey.md - Barony: Fartullagh - Electoral division: Enniscoffey, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51663 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231340 - Centre: latitude 53.449185, longitude -7.264931 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmill or Blackislands, from 13 m² to 193,102 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 102656: 193,102 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102656.md - Parcel 100766: 88,368 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100766.md - Parcel 100809: 61,738 m² (6.17 ha, 15.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100809.md - Parcel 129087: 53,741 m² (5.37 ha, 13.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129087.md - Parcel 128985: 31,711 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128985.md - Parcel 103350: 16,143 m² (1.61 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103350.md - Parcel 103349: 15,755 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103349.md - Parcel 125950: 15,586 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125950.md - Parcel 129755: 15,029 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129755.md - Parcel 103348: 14,914 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103348.md - Parcel 129667: 14,277 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129667.md - Parcel 100474: 13,828 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100474.md - Parcel 129692: 13,094 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129692.md - Parcel 129693: 12,012 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129693.md - Parcel 100804: 11,118 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100804.md - Parcel 129694: 5,853 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129694.md - Parcel 129066: 4,463 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129066.md - Parcel 6199260: 4,452 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6199260.md - Parcel 3705966: 4,373 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705966.md - Parcel 128518: 4,253 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128518.md - Parcel 129647: 4,127 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129647.md - Parcel 129754: 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129754.md - Parcel 2249059: 3,234 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2249059.md - Parcel 5434798: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5434798.md - Parcel 129914: 2,243 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/129914.md - Parcel 2553160: 1,105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2553160.md - Parcel 129072: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/129072.md - Parcel 128723: 953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/128723.md - Parcel 129568: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/129568.md - Parcel 128474: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/128474.md - Parcel 3705926: 293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705926.md - Parcel 129923: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/129923.md - Parcel 128483: 212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/128483.md - Parcel 101704: 84 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/101704.md - Parcel 134161: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/134161.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 23 Jun 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660333: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660333/0 - 29 Jan 2026, Westmeath County Council 263: Conditional. Extension of duration. Extension of Duration to construct a dwelling house with treatment system & percolation area with ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/263/0 - 20 Aug 2021, Westmeath County Council 21465: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning permission to construct a dwelling house with treatment system & percolation area with ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21465/0 - 13 Nov 2020, Westmeath County Council 206321: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for bungalow with proprietary waste water treatment system with raised percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/206321/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) 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 (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM026-101: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM026-101----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windmill or Blackislands. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 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, 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/windmill-or-blackislands.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/windmill-or-blackislands.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/windmill-or-blackislands.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bellfield or Brannockstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bellfield-or-brannockstown.md - Claremount or Cummingstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/claremount-or-cummingstown.md - Corcloon: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/corcloon.md - Gallstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/gallstown.md - Rathcam or Lemongrove: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rathcam-or-lemongrove.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/windmill-or-blackislands - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/windmill-or-blackislands