Balgarrett

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balgarrett, from 1,448 m² to 488,192 m² (48.82 ha, 120.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Balgarrett 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission which is sought for the construction of two agricultural sheds (300 sqm) & (125 sqm), located approximately 110m from the existing dwellings to the west of the site and approximately 200m from the existing ringfort. Permission is also sought for the widening of the existing vehicular entrance onto the adjoining public road to the north of the site, together with all associated site development works at the above address. This planning application falls within the curtilage of a Recorded Monument WM018-060 and WH018-060001.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660147

• 3 Jun 2025Refused

  planning permission to construct an agricultural shed to include a machinery storage area, feed storage area and 4 number pens and an ancillary concrete area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560279

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 Balgarrett.

Recorded monuments

• WM018-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in good pasture. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork enclosed by a field boundary to E. Monument described in 1983 as a large circular-shaped ringfort (diam. 64m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone, having no indications of an external ditch. The bank (approx. H 1-1.5m) is well preserved except where low in profile from WSW-W-WNW. It has been incorporated into a modern field fence from NE-E-ESE. There is a gap at E which is defined on one side by a large upright slab which may indicate an entrance feature. The interior is covered by cultivation ridges and in the centre there is a natural hillock with the remains of two house foundations (WM018-060001-). There are indications of a probable internal division on the E side of the enclosure. Well preserved monument is clearly visible as an oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 February 2019

• WM018-060001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock, in good pasture. In centre of ringfort (WM018-060----) are the remains of two rectangular-shaped house sites defined by earth and stone banks. The southern-most house site (dims. 12m N-S; 8m E-W) is slightly larger, whilst the second house site (dims. 11m E-W; 8m N-S) is situated perpendicular and is slightly smaller. These are described in 1977 as forming part of a ‘large stone built complex of houses which are linked together and running NW-SE which suggests there were more than two. There are indications of internal divisions within some of the house sites. House sites are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Cultivation ridges running roughly E-S are clearly visible in field immediately to S and W. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 04 February 2019

• WM018-069 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 29-30) as following: 'Fairly well-preserved roughly circular stepped-barrow (Diam. 39.3m N-S x 40m E-W) strikingly sculpted from a natural kame in a glaciated landscape, such that the central mound (Diam. 19.1m N-S x 18.7m E-W) is 1.70m higher than the surrounding bank on E side and 1.37m higher on W side, and the ditch between mound and bank is higher than external ground level. The overall diameter of the monument given above should be taken as an approximation, as its construction from a natural knoll makes it difficult to distinguish between the outer slope of the bank and the natural slope of the knoll. Mound is partly eroded on W side, exposing boulders beneath the sod, some very large. Mound has a markedly flattish upper surface (Diam. 9.3m N-S x 9.5m E-W) which rises up to 2.1m above ditch on W side and slopes down 0.86m from W to E; there is a sharp junction between top and sides of mound. Bank and ditch also slope down from W to E, the bank being much higher on W side than on E. Where highest and most massive at W, bank is 7.5m in width and rises up to 0.63m above the ditch and up to 1.4m above external ground level; at E end of monument, as on N and S sides, bank is barely visible, such that there is more of a step on a level with the base of the ditch, which then falls off to the natural slope of the knoll; this berm-like feature is up to 7m in width. Breaches in the bank, probably due to erosion, are evident on NE and SE sides. On NW side there is a funnel-shaped gap in the bank measuring 6m from inside to outside, widening towards the outside; to S of gap, bank is much thinner than to N. Ditch is up to 3.8m in width, where clearest on W side. Outside bank on E side of monument are two other low mounds apparently forming part of the same glacial feature on which barrow is situated. Monument lies in rough, undulating pastureland. Four other barrows (WM018-070----; WM018-106----; WM018-107---; WM018-151----) lie in the same townland, the nearest being c. 400m to SSE. Frewin Hill is visible to NE and mound-barrow on glacial hillock at Kilpatrick (WM018-097----) is visible over 400m to NNW'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-070 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Ring-barrow sited on top of a low but prominent natural hillock described in 1977 as consisting of a circular shaped earth and stone mound (approx. diam. 7.7m; overall diam. 14m) with a very slight depression on top enclosed by a wide shallow flat-bottomed fosse with a poorly preserved or much denuded earth and stone bank. Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 30-1) as following: 'Fairly well preserved, roughly circular stepped-barrow (Diam. 18m N-S x 19m E-W), shaped from a low knoll such that the central domed mound (Diam. 8m N-S x 7.8m E-W) is higher than the surrounding bank, and the ditch between them is higher than external ground level. Numerous large boulders have been incorporated in various parts of the mound and bank, especially the well-preserved western stretch of bank; N and NE sides of bank are poorly preserved. Mound rises up to 0.90m above ditch on W side; its upper surface is slightly hollowed, as if dug into by treasure-seekers. Bank is up to 2.10m in width on S side and, on its highest SSW side, rises up to 0.37m above ditch. Ditch is widest in SW quadrant of monument, reaching up to 3.60m in width on W side. Monument is situated on tiny knoll, apparently a kame, in undulating pastureland; surrounding ground slopes down steeply to SE, where base of knoll is 2.2m below base of bank, but much less so in other directions. Frewin Hill is prominent to NE. There are three other barrows (WM018-069----; WM018-106----; WM018-151----) in this townland, the nearest being c. 400m to E'. See attached profile of monument, drawn and surveyed by the ASI Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of revised upload: 05 March 2019

• WM018-106 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 31) as following: 'Fairly well preserved roughly circular barrow (Diam. 21.5m NE-SW x 19m NW-SE), strikingly formed out of the upper surface of a NE-SW oriented esker which rises towards the SW, so that the monument is on a slope, and comprising a level or slightly domed mound (Diam. 10m x 8.8m) surrounded by a ditch with external bank. Height of apex of mound above ditch ranges from 0.34m on SW side to 1.45m on NE side. Where clearest and particularly massive on SW side, bank is at least as high as central mound, rises 0.50m above the ditch, and is up to 5m in width, being much lower and only 4m wide on the opposite side of the monument; it ranges in height above external ground level from 0.55m on SW side to 1m on NE side. Unlike the high SW side, bank is more like a berm or step from the ditch to the surrounding ground on lower NE side, and is barely apparent on NW and SE sides. Ditch reaches up to 2.2m in width where clearest on NE side. Measurements given for width of bank and, by extension, for the overall diameter of monument should be taken as fairly crude approximations as the site was covered in high grass when surveyed, making it difficult to distinguish between the outer edge of the bank and the surrounding ground. Given its location on a high, narrow esker running NE-SW, ground slopes down steeply to NW and SE, with a magnificent view to N. Frewin Hill is visible to NE. The monument is in a deliberately unplanted area of commercial forestry. There are four other barrows in this townland (WM018-069----; WM018-070----; WM018-107----; WM018-151----), the nearest being c. 500m to ESE'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-107 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 32) as following: 'Circular tumulus (Diam. 8.5m N-S x 8.6m E-W) with well-defined edge, domed to conical in shape and up to 1.45 in height above ground level on NE side. Boulders protrude from upper surface of mound. Although mound was covered in fairly thick grass when visited, narrow circumferential terraces visible on its W side appear to show no pattern and are almost certainly due to erosion or soil-flow. Mound is very prominently sited on an eminence in a deliberately unplanted area of commercial forestry; view would be excellent but for trees. Four other barrows (WM018-069----; WM018-070----; WM018-106----; WM018-151----) lie in this townland, the nearest being c. 500m to WNW'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-151 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 32-3) as following: 'Low sub-circular mound with long axis running NE-SW (Diam. 7.8m NE-SW x 5.7m NW-SE); NW side of mound is up to 0.6m in height and is appreciably higher than SE side, which may have been robbed or eroded in the past, although edge is fairly well defined on all sides. Large boulders protrude from parts of the edge and interior of the monument; another lies just beyond the current edge of the monument to NE in the direction of Frewin Hill. Monument is prominently positioned at N end of summit of low hill or ridge running N-S, with spectacular views to NE, centred on Frewin Hill. Four other barrows (WM018-069----; WM018-107----;WM018-070----; WM018-106---- ) lie in this townland, the two nearest being c. 400m to W and NNW respectively. This monument has not previously been recorded'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM018-163 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in area of modern forestry plantation with ring-barrow (WM018-106----) 80m to NNE. Small mound may be the remains of a possible barrow visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Not depicted on any edition of the OS maps. Exclusion zone of forestry around the low mound in a similar fashion to nearby ring-barrow. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

No address of the register names Balgarrett with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Balgarrett

Area

1,669,264 m² (166.93 ha, 412.48 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Rathconrath, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Balleagny, Gaddrystown, Glascarn, Kilpatrick

Placenames

Balgarrett on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.