Windtown
Townland in the civil parish of Mullingar, barony of Moyashel And Magheradernon, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 185 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,867 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windtown, from 223 m² to 542,451 m² (54.25 ha, 134.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Aug 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. Permission is also sought to share existing lane and entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560425
5 Feb 2025Refused
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. Permission is also sought to alter & share existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560032
11 Oct 2019Conditional
construct a new bungalow type dwelling septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196283
7 Mar 2019Conditional
construction of a two-storey dwelling house with domestic garage, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, form combined entrance in place of existing agricultural entrance to serve proposed dwelling and agricultural land from existing public roadway, with all associated site works and alterations
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196059
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Windtown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windtown.
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).
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
- 1,849,807 m² (184.98 ha, 457.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullingar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyashel And Magheradernon
- Electoral division
- Russellstown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baltrasna, Cartronganny, Clownstown, Greatdown, Knockaville, Newdown
- Placenames
- Windtown 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.