Windtown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windtown, from 59 m² to 158,557 m² (15.86 ha, 39.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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.

No planning application touches the townland of Windtown 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 the townland of Windtown.

Recorded monuments

• WM006-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on low lying poorly drained pasture-land. A roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 34m) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, shallow fosse, earthen bank, external shallow fosse, and a third external bank. A rectangular-shaped annexe defined by an earthen bank and external fosse occurs on the N side of the monument. A post-1700 levelled field boundary running NE-SW intersects the site at SE. The interior slopes slightly from N-S, and has traces of cultivation ridges running WSW-ENE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2017

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).

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

Name

Windtown

Area

669,912 m² (66.99 ha, 165.54 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Rathowen, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarran, Derrydooan Lower, Kilsallagh (Co. Longford), Loughanstown Lower Or Slievelahan, Windtown North, Windtown South

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.