# Windtown North, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Russagh, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 462,029 m² (46.2 ha, 114.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,682 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Russagh, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/russagh.md - Barony: Moygoish - Electoral division: Rathowen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51232 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231341 - Centre: latitude 53.673118, longitude -7.539046 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windtown North, from 82 m² to 93,273 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 109112: 93,273 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109112.md - Parcel 216517: 90,287 m² (9.03 ha, 22.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216517.md - Parcel 132424: 66,610 m² (6.66 ha, 16.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132424.md - Parcel 217376: 53,504 m² (5.35 ha, 13.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/217376.md - Parcel 109111: 25,399 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109111.md - Parcel 109113: 22,929 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109113.md - Parcel 133602: 19,598 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133602.md - Parcel 109114: 19,572 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109114.md - Parcel 109102: 18,583 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109102.md - Parcel 109124: 16,792 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109124.md - Parcel 5180287: 6,682 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180287.md - Parcel 133603: 5,758 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133603.md - Parcel 132440: 5,659 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132440.md - Parcel 109104: 4,916 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/109104.md - Parcel 217377: 3,699 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/217377.md - Parcel 132425: 3,586 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/132425.md - Parcel 5180288: 1,580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180288.md - Parcel 133592: 1,531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/133592.md - Parcel 109110: 1,371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/109110.md - Parcel 133598: 532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/133598.md - Parcel 133599: 82 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/133599.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Feb 2017, Westmeath County Council 176039: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176039/0 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 Windtown North. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM005-001: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM005-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM006-004----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM006-005----. 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 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 Windtown North. ## 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 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, 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/windtown-north.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/windtown-north.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/windtown-north.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonwhelan (Co. Longford): https://everytownland.com/longford/clonwhelan.md - Kilsallagh (Co. Longford): https://everytownland.com/longford/kilsallagh.md - Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/loughanstown-lower-or-slievelahan.md - Windtown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/windtown-231345.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/windtown-north - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/windtown-north