Piercetown ()Piercetown civil parish The Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved on 2 August 2015. is a civil parish in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about west–north–west of Mullingar. It was formerly often spelled Pierstown.
Piercetown is one of 9 civil parishes in the barony of Rathconrath in the province of Leinster. The civil parish covers .
Piercetown civil parish comprises 16 townlands: Aghnabohy, Ballincurra, Ballymaglavy, Curraghboy, Fiveacres, Glebe, Kilgawny, Kilphierish, Malthousepark, Piercetown, Rath (Malone), Rathcogue, Relick (Longworth), Relick (Malone), Williamstown and Williamstown New.
The neighbouring civil parishes are: Kilmacnevan to the north, Rathconrath to the east, Ballymorin to the south, Templepatrick to the south–west and Abbeyshrule and Forgney (both County Longford) to the north–west.Piercetown civil parish, County Westmeath townlands.ie Retrieved on 2 August 2015.Piercetown civil parish, County Westmeath The IreAtlas Townland Data Base. Retrieved on 2 August 2015.
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