Windtown North

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windtown North, from 82 m² to 93,273 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Windtown North 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.

• 10 Feb 2017Refused

  construction of domestic garage, fuel store and general store, new entrance to site from local road L5925 and all associated site development works and services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176039

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 North.

Recorded monuments

• WM005-001 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on pasture-land with old laneway immediately to E and ringfort (WM006-006----)150m to E. Annotated as ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a small hachured circular earthwork or mound on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, but not marked on subsequent editions of the OS maps. Not visible at ground level, and no cropmark of earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2016

• WM006-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the NW side of a low rise in gently undulating pasture-land with extensive views to NW, N and NNE. Bog visible 550m to NNW. Ringfort (WM006-005---) 140m to NE, ringfort (WM006-006----) 140m to SSE, earthwork (WM005-001----) 200m to SW. A D-shaped (diam. 23m N-S; 25m E-W) area enclosed by a low earthen bank and external fosse visible only from ENE-E-S-SSW where it forms the present field boundary. Possible entrance gap at NW (Wth 1.3m). The enclosing bank has several disturbance gaps, and has been steepened from ENE-E-S-SSW where it forms part of a field boundary. The interior has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run NNW-SSE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 December 2016

• WM006-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in grassland with bog c. 600m to the NW, with other areas of bog c. 900m and 1200m to SW and NE respectively. Ringfort (WM006-004---) 140m to SE. Annotated on the Fair Plan as a D-shaped enclosure, this site is bisected by the townland boundary between Windtown North and Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan. Originally circular (approx. diam. 30m NNE-SSW), the site has been completely levelled on the E side, though it is possible to trace a portion of the enclosure as a crop-mark. On the W side of the townland boundary are the remains of a poorly preserved bank curving from S-N-NE, with slight traces of an outer ditch. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 January 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windtown North.

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 moderately low, 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 Windtown North.

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 Windtown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Windtown North

Area

462,029 m² (46.2 ha, 114.17 acres)

Civil parish

Russagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Rathowen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathowen electoral division: 386 people in 143 households; 71% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonwhelan (Co. Longford), Kilsallagh (Co. Longford), Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan, Windtown

Placenames

Windtown North 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.