Ballard

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 1,402 m² to 280,819 m² (28.08 ha, 69.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballard 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.

• 26 Jan 2022Conditional

  A new farmyard site entrance and farmyard access road to service the existing farmyard and proposed farmyard extension (Proposed farmyard extension is Westmeath planning reference 21/471). These proposed works will replace the existing farmyard entrance and an existing field entrance

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2218

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  for development for the construction of a slatted shed, silage slab and ancillary works(i.e. concrete yards, crush all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area using existing farm site entrance

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21471

• 28 Jul 2021N/a

  Construction of a slatted shed, silage slab and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, crush all for agricultural purposes) in existing farmyard area using existing farm site entrance.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21427

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 Ballard.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of a prominent ridge, in pasture with good views to N, W & S and overlooked by slightly higher ground to E. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure. Described in 1980 as a roughly circular-shaped area (29.5m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a steep scarp with the remains of an inner bank, an intervening fosse and the remains of a low outer bank with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at SE. The inner bank of earth and stone is very low and faint and is almost reduced to a scarp in places. It is set back from the edge of the scarp from N-E-ESE leaving a narrow berm (Wth 3m). There are remains of an internal stone facing from SSE-S-SSW. The intervening fosse is well preserved being wide and deep. The outer bank of earth and stone retains traces of an internal and external stone facing in places and has a number of disturbance gaps. There are the remains of a stone-faced entrance gap in the inner bank, a causeway (Wth 3.5m; H 0.7m) across the fosse and a corresponding gap (Wth 5.5m) in the outer bank at SE. The interior is uneven, rising toward the centre from the SE and S. Monument visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballard, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballard.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballard

Area

828,402 m² (82.84 ha, 204.7 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

259 people lived in 97 households in the Skeagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymorin, Cleggarnagh, Clonymurtagh, Farthingstown, Luggygalla

Placenames

Ballard 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.