Windtown
Townland in the civil parish of St. Feighins, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 109372
- Area
- 40,362 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 523 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Windtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 51 recorded monuments.
- WM004-025 Cross - Wayside cross
Description
Wayside cross standing on W side of roadway in field 35m NNE of possible burial mound (WM004-029----). Drawn by Du Noyer (George Victor Du Noyer, “On road in the NE of Fore Abbey. [cross with figure sculpture]. The remains of the cross and the square plinth close by.,” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, accessed January 27, 2020, http://rsai.locloudhosting.net/items/show/23411) in the 19th century. Described in 1928 as 'The lower portion of a cross head bearing a rude crucifixion, also the shaft broken in two and the socket stone 2ft. 10in. (0.85m) by 2ft. 3in. (0.67m). The head is 1ft. 8in. (0.5m) wide, both top and arms are missing. The pieces of the shaft are 1ft. 8in. (0.5m) and 1ft. 1in. (0.32m) in length, and have chamfered edges. The cross is inside of the road fence on the west side half a mile N of Fore, and half a mile south of No. 9 (WM004-010----)' (Crawford 1928, 60, no. 10). Described in 1980 as 'This cross is in 3 fragments, (1) the base (dims. 0.85m x 0.36m; H 0.16m) and the lower portion of the shaft (H 0. 58m; base Wth 0.24m; T 0.17m-23m) set in a socket (dims. 0.31m x 0.24m) in its upper surface, (2) portion of the shaft (L 0.36m) which fits the portion set in the base and (3) the upper part of the shaft (L 0.54m) and the lower half of the head. The top of the head is broken off and missing. The loose portion of the shaft (2) fits fairly well with the top portion of the shaft and head and it would seem that the cross is almost completely represented by these fragments. The base is a large block of limestone of rectangular shape and apparently unworked except for the rectangular socket cut in its upper surface. The shaft is rectangular in section with chamfered edges, the chamfering begins c. 0.11m up from the bottom i.e. from the bottom of the shaft and c. 0.05m up from the surface of the base. The shaft is plain. The upper portion of the shaft and the head has a crucifixion carved on one face. The figure is outlined by shallow grooves and is virtually complete, the feet, hands and top of the head been damaged. The arms of the figure are raised, the hands being level with the head. The features of the face are carved, mouth and nose but the eyes are damaged. The arms of the cross are damaged but appear to have been fairly short originally. The cross is set on the roadside bank, on the W side of the roadway, under some thorn trees and bushes. There are some stones lying about below the cross under the trees but none of them are fragments of the cross, however it is possible that some other small fragments of the cross may be hidden in the undergrowth of the bank' (SMR file). Wayside cross (WM004-011----) 120m to the NNW, possible burial mound (WM004-029----) 35m to SSW, Knocknamonaster earthwork (WM004-035011-) 140m to SSW and Fore Abbey (WM004-035010-) 330m to SW. Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 April 2015
- WM004-029 Castle - motte and bailey
Description
Mound situated at SW end of low ridge running SW-NE on wet marshy land with stream immediately to SW. Wayside cross (WM004-025----) 50m to NE, Knocknamonaster earthwork (WM004-035011-) and site of stone bridge as depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map 50m to SW, Fore Abbey (WM004-035010-) 255m to SW. Classification of this monument is difficult due to the poor condition of the mound caused by quarrying. Present remains consist of a poorly preserved steep sided flat-topped earth and stone mound that appears to have been partially quarried into in the post-medieval period. There are several depressions in the side of the mound which appear to be the result of quarrying. On the NE side of the mound there is a flat elevated area partially damaged by quarrying and now covered in scrub bushes which may represent the remains of a bailey area. Low grass-covered linear earthwork running SW-NE visible in field immediately N of mound appear to be the remains of a field system of uncertain antiquity. It is possible that this mound may be the remains of a badly damaged prehistoric burial mound or barrow rather than the remains of a possible motte and bailey. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. WM004-029----_06.jpeg Profile section of mound as drawn by Archaeological Survey of Ireland based in Co. Westmeath c. 1970s. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 14 April 2015
- WM004-035 Historic town
Description
Fore is situated on the Kells-Castlepollard road in north-east Westmeath in a secluded marshy valley flanked by high ground on the north, east and south. The placename is derived from Fobhair, meaning a spring or well. This spring emerges from a rock known as Carraig Bhaile Fhobhair (the "Ben of Fore") on the south side of the town (Bradley et. al. 1985, 73). The precise date of Feichin's foundation is unknown but a date in the second quarter of the seventh century seems likely. The deaths of its abbots are recorded in the Annals from 705 until 1163. The monastery was a prosperous one and was burned or raided in 745, 771, 804, 830, 870, 971, 1025, 1069, 1095, 1112, 1114, 1149, 1163, 1169, 1172 and 1176 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 36; Leask n.d. 3-4). These raids indicate that it was a monastery of importance but it was probably eclipsed, if not actually suppressed, with the foundation of the Benedictine priory (WM004-035010-) in the 1180s. Fore was granted to Hugh de Lacy as part of the liberty of Meath in 1172 and in the same year De Lacy spent a fortnight at Fore and burned the monastery (Ann. Tig.). He may not have effectively occupied Fore, however, until c.1180 (Orpen 1911-20, 81) and the motte castle was probably built sometime between then and 1186. The Benedictine priory (WM004-035010-) was established before 1185 and the settlement had achieved borough status by c. 1235 (MacNiocaill 1977, 55). Little is known of the town in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. On the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241, Fore passed to Geoffrey de Geneville from whom it passed to Roger de Mortimer in 1308 (Orpen 1911-20, 286). St. Feichin's church (WM039-035003-) continued to be used throughout the later Middle Ages as a parish church, however, and as such it is mentioned in the 1302-06 ecclesiastical taxation of Ireland (Cal. doc. Ire., 259). It remained in Mortimer hands until the death of 'Richard, duke of York, in 1460 when it passed to the crown. By the fifteenth century Fore was an exposed frontier town of the Anglo-Norman colony. Attacks by the Irish resulted in the burning of the priory in 1423 and of the town c.1432 (Seymour 1934; Tresham 1828, 229, 254). It was perhaps as a response to this that Henry VI made a grant of murage to the town which was subsequently reaffirmed in 1462-3 by his successor Edward IV (Berry 1914, 25). The priory was also fortified at about this time. In 1463 the manor was granted to Thomas, earl of Desmond (Berry 1914, 301) and in 1475-6 to Christopher Nugent (Morrissey 1939, 455). In 1567 the Crown granted Christopher Nugent, lord of Delvin a 21 year lease 'of the site of the priory (WM004-035010-) or manor of Fowre, county Westmeath, lands of Fowre, a lough there called [Logheleyn], lands of Hilton, Carpenterston, Mylcasteltowne, Gilbertston, Rahen, Dromsawry, with a chapel and tithes, Comoylston, Lighill alias, Larkehill by the parts of the Breny, Fayron, Keneleighe, Ratheny, Donamore, Betaghton, Nynche, 13s. 4d. chief rents out of Nenaghe, in the said county, and the customs of the tenants ; the rectories of S. Mary (WM008-097002-) in Fower, S. Fekins (WM004-035003-) in Fower, Archidiorum (WM004-035004-) in Fower, Fayron, Faghley, Mayne, Leigheblay, Dromiskille, Ragarf, Oldecastell, and Balmagarvy, in the counties of Meath and Westmeath, and diverse parsonages in the Breny. To hold the possessions of Fower, for 21 years from 1582, at a rent of £175 10s 8d., and maintaining five horsemen’ (Nicholls 1994, 134). The church was in ruins at the time of Bishop Dopping's visitation of 1682-5 (Ellison 1975, 7). Little further is known of Fore until 1682 when Piers (1981, 66) stated: "this town of Foure is at this day but very mean, the inhabitants very poor and live in small cottages". It would appear then that the later fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period of contraction and recession. The early monastic remains consist of a group of isolated buildings on the west side of the village. These comprise St Feichin's church (WM039-035003-), Teampall Fionain (WM004-035001-), a souterrain (WM004-035006-), the anchorite's cell (WM004-035004-) and St. Feichin's mill (WM004-035012-). There is no evidence for an ecclesiastical enclosure or delimiting feature of the monastery. The modern east-west road through the village may coincide for part of its course with the medieval main street. It is evident that it does not overly it exactly, however, because the present road bypasses both of the surviving town gates. The date of the present street plan is difficult to determine. The absence of clear burgage plots indicates a lack of continuity in the centre of the town and accordingly it is possible that the street pattern has changed considerably since the middle ages. Apart from the east-west street there are two other streets, one leading north towards the Benedictine priory (WM004-035010-), the other, a lane, running eastwards past Christian's Castle (WM008-097003-) to the motte and bailey castle (WM004-035014-). The market place is in the centre of the village and is of triangular plan, occupied by a small village green. The site of the town gaol (WM004-035005-) lies to the north. A small seventeenth century cross (WM008-097001-) has been erected on the green (Bradley et. al. 1985, 74). None of the houses in the village have diagnostic pre-1700 architectural features but the masonry of some such as the Gaol, some walls at the rear of houses on the north side of the main street, the single storied shed on the east side of the Green, and the two storied house, now used as a farm outhouse, immediately north of the shed, may be of pre-1700 date. In the absence of detailed masonry studies, however, this remains only a guess (ibid. 75). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2013
- WM004-035001 Church
Description
Levelled church site depicted as 'Site of Templefeenan' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible. Originally known as Teampall Fionain [Church of Fionain] which was then anglicised as Templefeenan. In 1682 Piers stated that Fore contained the ruins of three churches (WM008-097002-; WM004-035003-) one of which was called Teampall Fionain (Piers 1981, 63). This church was demolished c. 1830 (Stokes 1892, 7-8; Walsh 1957, 60). Writing in 1892 Stokes (1892, 7-8) stated that there 'were till sixty years ago the ruins of three churches at Fore, just as in Sir Henry Piers's time about 1680'. Stokes goes on to state 'that there was another church levelled to the ground in 1830, called Tempull Fionan, outside the Castlepollard gate' (Stokes 1892, 8). According to Bradley (1985, 79) the church allegedly stood outside the North Gate but the unusual curve in the townland boundary at this point may preserve the line of an enclosure and this suggests that it may have been within the wall. Nothing is known of the church apart from its name and location. The dedication to an Irish saint suggests that the site is of pre-Norman origin but Teampall dedications have been shown to be post-1200 elsewhere in Ireland (Hurley 1980, 52-65). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2013
- WM004-035002 Gateway
Description
During the later Middle Ages Fore was a frontier town and although documentary references are slight it is clear that it was fortified in the fifteenth century. In 1462-3 Edward IV confirmed an earlier grant of murage by Henry VI, King between 1422 and 1461 (Berry 1914, 25). The north gateway appears to from part of the fifteenth century fortification of the town. The present remains of the North gate consists of a rectangular structure with rounded corners on the north-west and south-east angles. It is built of fairly evenly coursed limestone and is entered through a round arched gate, 2.6m wide, which is blocked by a modern cross wall. The passage is flat-arched and short. Only the ground floor survives and there are no indications of internal chambers. A murder hole above the gate indicates that there was an upper level but all trace of it has been removed and is now replaced by modern repairs. There is a slight batter and a string course on the external west face. There are two large internal recesses in the east and west walls at arch level and these may have held eyes on which the gate was suspended (Bradley et. al. 1985, 76-7). See attached drawing of Fore North Gate taken from Urban Survey of Co. Westmeath. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2013
- WM004-035003 Church
Description
The precise date of Feichin's foundation is unknown but a date in the second quarter of the seventh century seems likely. The deaths of its abbots are recorded in the Annals from 705 until 1163. The monastery was a prosperous one and was burned or raided in 745, 771, 804, 830, 870, 971, 1025, 1069, 1095, 1112, 1114, 1149, 1163, 1169, 1172 and 1176 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 36; Leask n.d. 3-4). These raids indicate that it was a monastery of importance but it was probably eclipsed, if not actually supressed, with the foundation of the Benedictine priory in the 1180s. St Feichin's church continued to be used throughout the later Middle Ages as a parish church, however, and as such it is mentioned in the 1302-06 ecclesiastical taxation of Ireland where the 'Church of St. Fechin, Favorie' is valued at 26s. 8d.(Cal. doc. Ire., 259) and in a lease to Christopher Nugent, lord of Delvin in 1567 (Nicholls 1994, 134). In this year the Crown granted Christopher Nugent a 21 year lease 'of the site of the priory (WM004-035010-) or manor of Fowre, county Westmeath, lands of Fowre, a lough there called [Logheleyn], lands of Hilton, Carpenterston, Mylcasteltowne, Gilbertston, Rahen, Dromsawry, with a chapel and tithes, Comoylston, Lighill alias, Larkehill by the parts of the Breny, Fayron, Keneleighe, Ratheny, Donamore, Betaghton, Nynche, 13s. 4d. chief rents out of Nenaghe, in the said county, and the customs of the tenants ; the rectories of S. Mary (WM008-097002-) in Fower, S. Fekins (WM004-035003-) in Fower, Archidiorum (WM004-035004-) in Fower, Fayron, Faghley, Mayne, Leigheblay, Dromiskille, Ragarf, Oldecastell, and Balmagarvy, in the counties of Meath and Westmeath, and diverse parsonages in the Breny. To hold the possessions of Fower, for 21 years from 1582, at a rent of £175 10s 8d., and maintaining five horsemen’ (ibid.). In 1578 the Crown granted a 5 year lease to William Dood ‘of the site of the abbey of Fower (WM004-035010-), co. Westmeath, and the lands in Fowre, Hilton, Carpenterstowne, Mylcastellton, Gilbertston, Raghin, Dromsawry, Comoylston, Leighill alias Larkehill, Firone, Kilmalighe, Rathenny, Donnamore, Ballynniskerry, Betaughston, the Ninche, and Nenaghe, and the tithes and alterages of the rectories of Fower (WM008-097002-), S. Fekyn (WM004-035003-) in Fower, Archediorum (WM004-035004-) of Fower, Fayron, Faughley, Mayne, Lighblay, Dormiskell, Ragarfett, Oldecastell, and Balmagarvy, counties of Meath and Westmeath. To hold for 5 years. Rent, £140’ (ibid., 479). The church was in ruins at the time of Bishop Dopping's visitation of 1682-5 (Ellison 1975, 7). The early monastic remains consist of a group of isolated buildings on the west side of the village. These comprise St Feichin's church (WM039-035003-), Teampall Fionain (WM004-035001-), a souterrain (WM004-035006-), the anchorite's cell (WM004-035004-) and St. Feichin's mill (WM004-035012-). There is no evidence for an ecclesiastical enclosure or delimiting feature of the monastery. Described by Bradley (1985, 77-8) as a 'simple nave and chancel structure of coursed limestone masonry. The nave measures 11.3m by 7.2m and the chancel 5.86m by 5m. Chronologically the nave is pre-twelfth century while the chancel is an addition of the thirteenth. The windows of the east wall were blocked up in the fifteenth century and replaced by a single light. The chancel was carefully constructed in order to fit within the space formed by the antae of the nave. The east wall was originally lit by a twin-light window but this was partly filled in and replaced by a single-light cusped ogee-headed window with hollowed spandrels and external hood. The remains of the altar table are present beneath the window; this has a rectangular recess and is decorated with two deeply incised equal-armed crosses. The window is flanked by two corbels whose function is unclear, and there is a wall cupboard on the south side of the east wall. Both the north and south walls have two rectangular windows with internal splay; these have flat rear-arches except for one on the south side which is pointed. Projecting from the south wall is a chamfered piscina with drainage hole. The basin is shallow and is 0.28m in diameter and decorated with a half moulding on the outer side. The nave was originally a complete church with projecting antae and lintelled west door but most of its east wall was removed in order to form the chancel arch. This is a pointed arch of pink sandstone, plain except for a small figure carved on the lowermost springing stone of the north side facing into the nave. The figure is seated with his hands on his knees, and has a large round head with bulging eyes; the legs are crossed at the ankles and he wears a belted knee-length tunic. Portions of the north and south walls have been rebuilt and although they are largely featureless now, slight traces of a window are present at the east end of each wall. The west wall has a lintelled door with a batter splaying from 0.96m at the head to 1.1m at ground level. There is a rebate on the internal sides and an attempt was made to continue this on the lintel over the door. Externally the massive lintel is decorated in relief with an equal armed cross in a circle. High in the gable there is a wide flat lintelled window and there are also two corbels protruding from the wall. Inside the chancel of St. Fechin's church are the remains of a window moulding (dims. L 0.38m; T 0.2m) of 15th/16th century date and a limestone ogee-headed stone (dims. H 0.5m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.21m) of 15th century date set up against the wall of the chancel (Bradley et. al. 1985, 78). See attached plan of chruch taken from Bradley's Urban Survey of Westmeath. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2013
- WM004-035004 Church
Description
National Monument No. 215. Situated west of St. Feichin's church at the foot of the rock outcrop known as Carraig Bhaile Fhobhair. The history of the site cannot be traced before 1300 but it is likely that its origins lie in the Early Historic period. This chapel is first mentioned in the 1302-06 ecclesiastical taxation of Ireland where the 'Chapel Archeriorum' is valued at 20s. (Cal. doc. Ire., 259), it is mentioned again as 'Archidiorum' in the lease of the priory of Fore to Christopher Nugent, lord of Delvin in 1567 (Nicholls 1994, 134). In this year the Crown granted Christopher Nugent a 21 year lease 'of the site of the priory (WM004-035010-) or manor of Fowre, county Westmeath, lands of Fowre, a lough there called [Logheleyn], lands of Hilton, Carpenterston, Mylcasteltowne, Gilbertston, Rahen, Dromsawry, with a chapel and tithes, Comoylston, Lighill alias, Larkehill by the parts of the Breny, Fayron, Keneleighe, Ratheny, Donamore, Betaghton, Nynche, 13s. 4d. chief rents out of Nenaghe, in the said county, and the customs of the tenants ; the rectories of S. Mary (WM008-097002-) in Fower, S. Fekins (WM004-035003-) in Fower, Archidiorum (WM004-035004-) in Fower, Fayron, Faghley, Mayne, Leigheblay, Dromiskille, Ragarf, Oldecastell, and Balmagarvy, in the counties of Meath and Westmeath, and diverse parsonages in the Breny. To hold the possessions of Fower, for 21 years from 1582, at a rent of £175 10s 8d., and maintaining five horsemen’ (ibid.). In 1578 the Crown granted a 5 year lease to William Dood ‘of the site of the abbey of Fower (WM004-035010-), co. Westmeath, and the lands in Fowre, Hilton, Carpenterstowne, Mylcastellton, Gilbertston, Raghin, Dromsawry, Comoylston, Leighill alias Larkehill, Firone, Kilmalighe, Rathenny, Donnamore, Ballynniskerry, Betaughston, the Ninche, and Nenaghe, and the tithes and alterages of the rectories of Fower (WM008-097002-), S. Fekyn (WM004-035003-) in Fower, Archediorum (WM004-035004-) of Fower, Fayron, Faughley, Mayne, Lighblay, Dormiskell, Ragarfett, Oldecastell, and Balmagarvy, counties of Meath and Westmeath. To hold for 5 years. Rent, £140’ (ibid., 479). In the same year the Crown granted a lease to William Pratt, Arland Uschere, and Charles Hewet of the ‘land in Fowre, co. Westmeath, called domus anchoristarum, parcel of the queen’s ancient inheritance’ (ibid., 453). Bishop Dopping's visitation of 1682-5 identifies Archidiorum as the anchorite's cell at Fore and records that it was then a chapel of St. Feichin's church (Ellison 1975, 7-8). The remains consist of a late 15th/16th century tower house with a nineteenth century mausoleum of the Nugent family, built in the style of a church, at its west end. A rectangular sandstone plaque above the mausoleum door notes that the tower house was used for that purpose since 1680 (Bradley et. al. 1985, 80). A rectangular sandstone plaque (WM004-035031-) above the Nugent mausoleum door in the Anchorite's Church notes that a tower house or castle (WM004-035030-) and chapel was rebuilt in 1680. The plaque bears the Nugent arms and a relief inscription in Roman capitals: THE RIGHT HONORABLE/ RICHARD NVGENT EARLE/ OF WESTMEATHE AT HIS OWN/ EXPENCES REBVILDED THIS/ CHAPLE AND CASTLE FOR/ THE BVRYINGE PLACE AND/ PIOVS VSE OF HIMSELFE AND/ HIS SVCESSORS ANNO/ DOMINI 1680 (Bradley et. al. 1985, 80). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2013
- WM004-035005 Prison
Description
An 'Old Gaol' is depicted standing opposite to the N of the village green on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The market place is in the centre of the village and is of triangular plan, occupied by a small village green. The site of the town gaol lies to the north. A small wayside cross (WM008-097001-) has been inserted into the base of a possible market cross (WM008-097016-) which stood in the the triangular-shaped green. None of the houses in the village have diagnostic pre-1700 architectural features but the masonry of some such as the Gaol, some walls at the rear of houses on the north side of the main street, the single storied shed on the east side of the Green, and the two storied house, now used as a farm outhouse, immediately north of the shed, may be of pre-1700 date. In the absence of detailed masonry studies, however, this remains only a guess. The Gaol is perhaps the best preserved of these buildings. It is built of roughly coursed limestone and lacks jambs or quoins. Only the front facade and short returns of the side walls survive. It was originally rectangular with its long axis aligned east-west. It was at least two storied and has a slight batter at the base. The facade is 9.5m long and the length of the east return is 2.35 m. The facade wall is 1.3m thick and 3-4m high but the west gable is slightly higher. The ground floor was barrel-vaulted with a fireplace in the south wall which was later used as a doorway but is now blocked up. The remains of a spiral stair are present in the south-east corner (Bradley et. al. 1985, 75). Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 April 2015
- WM004-035006 Souterrain
Description
A souterrain was discovered in 1962 about 60m south-east of St. Feichin's church (WM004-035003-). It was found during the construction of a hayshed and was considerably damaged before investigation. It consisted of a short passage 6m long, 1.3 m wide and 1.25m high. It ran in a north-south direction with the entrance at the north end. The souterrain curved eastwards towards the south but its full length was not determined because of collapse. It was built of poor quality drystone walling, slightly corbelled and roofed with transverse lintels about 0.45m wide and 0.3m thick (Bradley et. al. 1985, 80; Rynne 1964). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2013
- WM004-035007 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Holy well depicted as 'Tobernacogany' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. In the field north of the road from St. Feichin's church (WM004-035003-). A holed stone of conglomerate is deeply buried in the ground beside this well. The "wishing tree", known locally as the tree that will not burn, is in the same field (Bradley et. al. 1985, 94). In the 19th century stations were performed at this well on the 2oth of January, St. Feichin's day, St. John's Day, 24th of June, and St. Peter's Day, the 29th of June. It was the local custom to insert a coin edgeways into the bark of the ash tree with three branches growing over the well. According to local tradition the wood from the ash tree will not burn, the water from the well will not boil. The water was used as a local cure for headache and toothache. Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 21 April 2015
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- Area
- 216.9 ha
- 536 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 9,339 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windtown, from 443 m² to 143,470 m² (14.35 ha, 35.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Windtown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
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Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jan 2022Refused
to retain and complete my existing garage to include fuel storage and storage area with all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2211
14 Apr 2021Conditional
permission to erect a dormer style house, domestic garage, install a package waste water treatment system with percolation area to EPA specifications, a new site entrance and all necessary associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21191
19 Feb 2018Conditional
development of an existing entrance and upgrade it to forestry harvesting standard (bell mouth entrance) onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantation together with internal access road and all associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186060
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Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Lene SAC 002121
Recorded monuments
- WM008-006 Cross - Wayside cross
Description
Plain wayside cross with chamfered shaft and solid ringed head standing on S side of roadway incorporated into niche of wall which acts as the boundary wall of 'St. Feighin's School'. Described in 1928 as 'An uncarved cross with solid ring and chamfered edges; the height is 4ft. 7in. (1.38m) and breadth 1ft. 4in. (0.4m). It stands in a square flat socket stone in a recess in the road wall in front of the National School, a short distance S of No. 16' (Crawford 1928, 62, no. 17). The socket stone of this cross may originally have been the base of another cross and was described by Crawford as 'A small square socket stone which at one time stood on the roadside a short distance further to the S, but is now placed in front of No. 17' (Crawford 1928, 62, no. 18). Today there are no visible remains of a base for this cross. This monument was described in 1980 as 'The cross is in two fragments; (1) head (dims. H 0.48m; Wth 0.44m) & (2) shaft ( H 0.86m; bae Wth 0.27m; top Wth 0.20m; T 0.15m) both of which are now set into a niche in the stone wall surrounding the National School on the S side of the modern roadway E of Fore village. The shaft tapers from the bottom upwards & is of rectangular cross section with chamfered edges. The head has a solid ring & only 2 arms survive , both damaged. It is quite plain although there may have been a slight chamfer at the edges. It is not certain that these 2 fragments are part of the same cross, they do not fit exactly and the stone looks somewhat different' (SMR file). Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 April 2015
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Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Windtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Windtown
- Area
- 2,168,702 m² (216.87 ha, 535.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Feighins, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Fore West, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalasty And Ankersland, Cummerstown, Fore, Lakill And Moortown, Loughanavagh Or Newpark
- Placenames
- Windtown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
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