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Martinstown

Martinstown House preserves details of an early nineteenth-century country house.

Watercolour and fine ink view along a narrow winter farm avenue with a grass centre, plain timber rails, hedge and bare trees.
Illustration, a farm entrance and avenue at Martinstown near Crookedwood, County Westmeath, as photographed in January 2023
Recorded locationMartinstown53.60646° N · 7.30865° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Martinstown · English · main form

Place & story

House and outbuildings

Martinstown House, west of Crookedwood, dates from about 1820. Its central doorway has a stone surround and a fanlight patterned like a spider’s web. Timber sash windows divide their glazing into six panes above three. Behind the house, limestone outbuildings dating from about 1860 form an L-shaped range. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage also records stone gate piers and cast-iron gates along the roadside boundary. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Westmeath
Barony
Corkaree
Civil parish
Stonehall
Within
Stonehall
Coordinates
53.60646, -7.30865
Mapped area
2.16 km²
Logainm ID
52062 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

57People recorded
11Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Connell 11
  • Dermody 9
  • Gaffney 7
  • Gibson 5
  • McKeon 5
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Martinstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Martinstown House, registration 15401232, Westmeath survey 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. A farm entrance and avenue at Martinstown near Crookedwood illustration: based on a Entrance and Avenue by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2008-09-15. How this page was prepared.