Ballynakill

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 144 m² to 698,964 m² (69.9 ha, 172.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballynakill 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.

• 6 Jun 2026Conditional

  RETENTION permission for an extension to an existing dwelling house together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660300

• 12 May 2026N/a

  RETENTION permission for an extension to an existing dwelling house together with all associated site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660240

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct new slatted shed, new dungstead and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560450

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a milk silo tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560393

• 8 Jul 2025N/a

  permission to construct a milk silo tank and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560345

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• WM036-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small hillock, in rough pasture, with extensive views to N, NE and E and overlooked by higher ground to SE and S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a long oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 35m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by a steep scarp (H 3-4m) with no evidence of an enclosing rounding fosse. The interior is irregular, rising unevenly towards the centre with cultivation ridges running N-S across the surface. Monument is visible today as a long oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 November 2019

• WM036-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on elevated ground, in pasture, with limited views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Bivallate ringfort described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The bank (ext. H 2-3m) is fairly steep on the exterior and the intervening fosse is shallow. There is a low outer bank. The interior of the earthwork is quite uneven and is obscured by vegetation. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-033 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of a low rise, in undulating pasture, with good views to W and S. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a faint roughly square-shaped enclosure. Not depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1979 as a faint arc of a low scarp around the top of a natural rise. The scarp is traceable from SSW-W. There is a slight depression in the side of the rise at SW and another small depression in the top of the rise at SW, which may be backfilled gravel pits. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. the feature depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the remains of a gravel pit rather than that of an antiquity but this is not clear. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynakill, 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 Ballynakill.

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

Name

Ballynakill

Area

2,737,528 m² (273.75 ha, 676.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Moate, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,521 people lived in 1,309 households in the Moate electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attimurtagh, Ballynamuddagh, Bellair or Ballyard (Co. Offaly), Hall, Moneen, Moorock (Co. Offaly), Tinamuck West (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.