Ballard

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 2,171 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 724,068 m² (72.41 ha, 178.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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.

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a new dwelling, garage, alter existing entrance, new waste water treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works within the curtilage of Ballard House, a protected structure RPS 037-002

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2260019

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, alter existing entrance, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works within the curtilage of Ballard House, a protected structure RPS 037-002

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21580

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for as constructed window arrangement to existing extension and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21110

• 5 Mar 2020Refused

  A TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF 2 NO.WIND TURBINES, EACH WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF UP TO 160 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT, ACCESS AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS; INCLUDING TURBINE FOUNDATIONS, HARDSTANDING AREAS, SITE ACCESS TRACKS, 1 NO. SITE ENTRANCE, ELECTRICAL SWITCHROOM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLING. THE COMBINED ELECTRICAL OUTPUT OF THE WIND TURBINES SHALL NOT EXCEED 4.98 MEGAWATTS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE WIND TURBINES. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2070

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  construct a ground floor side and rear extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196297

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

• WM037-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a large ridge running E-W, in pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Annotated 'fort' and depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an irregular-shaped enclosure. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped tree-lined enclosure (50m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE). Monument described in 1979 as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. The bank is very sharp and appears relatively modern having probably been constructed when the planting was done. There is no definite trace of an external fosse. A narrow drain-like depression to W appears to be part of an older field system which can be seen in the vicinity. Old cultivation ridges running E-W are visible to S and W. The interior has a N-facing slope and has been used to deposit field clearance stones and for quarrying in the NE quadrant. This monument may originally have been a ringfort which has been modified and planted to form a tree ring in the post-1700 period. 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: 16 December 2019

• WM037-014 Burial
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in July 1954 human remains were discovered during land reclamation works at Ballard, near Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath (Cahill & Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 518). A human skull was discovered at a depth of 0.5m below ground level, and was broken upon discovery. The site was visited by Breandán Ó Ríordáin. The remainder of the burial was found in situ, extended and oriented west-north-west/east-south-east. There was no evidence for any grave structure or associated artefacts. The area surrounding the excavation is slightly elevated, and approximately 4m north of the bones on the natural rise is a clump of bushes with a number of large stones concealed from view. It was not possible to say whether this was a monument or not. The SMR records only one site-a ringfort- in the townland, but Early Bronze Age cist burials are known from the adjacent townlands of Kilgaroan and Ardballymore. The human remains were not acquired (NMI File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 December 2010

Architectural heritage

• Ballard House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built or rebuilt c.1830. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wet dash rendered walls over plinth course with a smooth rendered band at eaves level and quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered architraves and replacement windows, timber casement windows to the ground floor openings and uPVC to the second floor openings. Central round-headed door opening with rendered architraved surround and a replacement timber door having a plain overlight above. Doorcase flanked to either side by tripartite/Wyatt window openings. Limestone steps flanked to either side by cast-iron railings give access to doorway. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Horseleap, adjacent to border with Co. Offaly to the west. Complex of outbuildings to the rear (west). Main entrance gates to the southwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers, on square-plan with moulded capstones over, supporting a pair of decorative cast-iron gates.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Field gates, erected c.1860, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers, on square-plan with moulded cut limestone capstones over, supporting a pair of wrought-iron double gates with decorative finials and curled clasps. Central gate piers flanked by smaller outer cut limestone gate piers on square-plan with pyramidal capstones over. Boundary wall runs away to the east and west. Located to the south of Horseleap and adjacent to the west of the gates to Ballard House (15403704).

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.

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

1,199,084 m² (119.91 ha, 296.3 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lauree electoral division: 223 people in 73 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballymore, Ballickmoyler (Co. Offaly), Ballicknahee (Co. Offaly), Ballykilcross (Co. Offaly), Correagh, Lismoyny, Moycashel

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.