Ballard

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 38 m² to 297,076 m² (29.71 ha, 73.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 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.

• 29 Sept 2020Refused

  construct one number detached single storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to upgrade existing entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206260

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 Owel SAC 000688
• Special Protection Area: Lough Owel SPA 004047
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Owel 000688

Recorded monuments

• WM018-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in improved pasture, with excellent views in all directions, particularly over Lough Owel to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork within a small sub-rectangular field, on a spot height (118m/387ft OD). Described in 1983 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by an inner bank, intervening fosse and outer bank which are present SE-S-W-N and have been levelled N-E-SE. The inner bank (approx. int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2-2.5m) is steep and best preserved from W-NW. The intervening fosse (approx. Wth 1-2m; D 0.5-1m deep) is deep and well preserved. The outer bank (approx. H 0.5m) is best preserved W-NW and is perceptible, although disturbed at S-SW-W, where an old quarry pit encroaches. The perimeter has been levelled out from N-E-SE and the entire interior disturbed in the 1970s by insertion of a silage pit. Monument is visible today as a partially tree-lined ringfort, which appears open where disturbed to ENE, on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 January 2019

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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

1,777,751 m² (177.78 ha, 439.29 acres)

Civil parish

Portloman, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Tullaghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullaghan electoral division: 422 people in 139 households; 96% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Lugnagullagh, Portloman, Scurlockstown, Tullaghan, Walshestown North

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.