Ballany

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballany, from 70 m² to 603,852 m² (60.39 ha, 149.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballany 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.

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  (a) RETENTION of existing single store extension to rear of existing dwelling, (b) decommission & sterilise existing septic tank & (c) install a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460386

• 18 Apr 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the installation of 710m2 (145kW) of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and all associated ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2347

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Lene SAC 002121

Recorded monuments

• WM007-035 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Monument marked on Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map as ‘Rahindoon or Turgesius’ Fort and on the revised 1875 map as ‘Turgesius’ Fort’. This hilltop enclosure was reputedly the ninth century residence of Turgesius or Turgéis, a Norwegian who was described in the year 843 as the 'lord of the foreigners' (AFM, 467). Situated on top of a prominent hill at the W end of a high prominent natural ridge near the W side of Lough Lene located c. 800m to NNE. The SW side of the hill is almost cliff-like as to steepness and the outer edge of the inner bank is near its upper edge. The other sides of the hill are gentler. Magnificent views for miles around. Monument consists of a large slightly uneven enclosure (diam. 50m N-S; c. 55m WNW-ESE) rising slightly from the perimeter towards the centre, bounded by a massive earth and stone bank with a narrow steep-sided shallow flat-bottomed rock-cut fosse and remains of a counterscarp bank at its outer foot. The crest of the inner bank has several small modern disturbance gaps. The fosse is visible from S-E-N-NNW. Natural rock outcrop is visible in its outer face on the ESE from SE-S-W-N. The outer bank is visible from NNE-N-NW. The entrance is represented on the NNW by a wide gap (Wth 3m) in the inner bank and a causeway (Wth 2.1m; L 7.5m) across the fosse. The interior slopes from E-W and shows extensive traces of disturbance. A shallow fosse-like depression runs from ENE - WSW through the interior and a second similar depression runs at right angles to it just W of centre. These are presumably the remains of old drains and the four quadrants thus created show traces of old cultivation ridges. Outside the perimeter of the monument on the SE are the remains of quarrying activity. See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1975. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 November 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Ballany

Area

1,790,707 m² (179.07 ha, 442.49 acres)

Civil parish

St. Feighins, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Kinturk, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Deerpark, Gillardstown, Loughpark, Ranaghan

Placenames

Ballany 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.