Ballinderry

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinderry, from 27 m² to 515,687 m² (51.57 ha, 127.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballinderry 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct 01 No. Dwelling, Garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660414

• 29 Apr 2026N/a

  a new single storey dwelling house with provision for future development of attic, effluent waste water treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works on site

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660221

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  development which will consist of planning permission for new single storey extension and alterations to existing house

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660053

• 27 Jan 2026N/a

  development which will consist of planning permission for a new single-storey extension and alterations to existing house

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660021

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460096

• 28 Aug 2023N/a

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360271

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  retention of existing extension to rear of existing house, projection at North Eastern gable of existing house, front porch and also to retain natural slates to roof of house, extensions and porch with terracotta ridges to all pitched roofs as constructed

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2329

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  Construction of a five-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207167

• 20 Apr 2020Refused

  To construct a five-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 207062

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, a septic tank with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177228

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Ballynagrenia And Ballinderry Bog NHA 000674

Recorded monuments

• WM030-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large subcircular-shaped earthwork (overall dims. 65m E-W; 59m N-S). Not depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map, on this map the area is partially occupied by an irregular-shaped grove of trees on Ballinderry estate. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Probable ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature in the post 1700 period. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 November 2019

• WM030-085 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  This enclosure is depicted as a post-1700 landscape feature on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map and is not indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Cartographic evidence would suggest that this is a tree-ring of post 1700-date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM030-118 Crannog
  Description

  Located in poorly drained marshy land, originally part of a much more extensive wetland stretching between Moyvoughley and Ballinderry Lough. No surface remains visible of crannóg excavated in 1932 (O'Neill 1936, 103-239). Crannóg described by O'Sullivan (2004, 50-1) as following; 'This is the early medieval crannóg known as Ballinderry No. 1, excavated in 1932 by the Harvard Archaeological Mission. The site was located in low-lying, marshy ground, but was probably enclosed by water towards the end of its occupation. It was a large, multi-phase crannóg (dims. 20m N-S x 33m E-W), evolving across time from a rectangular timber platform to a ‘classic’ palisaded crannóg. In Phase 1 (late 10th century), the site had a pre-crannóg occupation phase consisting of a rectangular wooden house built on a platform ringed with piles. Artefactual finds included weaponry, tools, metalworking detritus, personal items and some distinctive Viking objects including an iron sword, longbow and gaming board. In Phase 2 (early to mid 11th century), the primary crannóg (diam. 15m) consisted of a circular wooden house (diam. 5m) surrounded by walkway of a horseshoe arrangement of timber, all retained within a palisade. Finds from its sub-structural layers included bronze pins, iron knives, stone hones, leather shoe, wooden buckets. Finds from its occupation layers included copper alloy pins, brooch, hones, antler, blue glass, a silver kite shaped brooch, ringed pins, bone combs, millstone, as well as iron tools, wooden buckets and ladles. In Phase 3 (early to mid 11th century), there was a crannóg with a large pile palisade, entrance and quay. In Phase 4 (mid to late 11th century), the crannóg was surrounded by a plank palisade, within which there were three possible houses represented by rectilinear mounds or hearths of ash. Finds included an iron knife, ringed-pin, bone pins and possibly a bronze hanging lamp. By Phase 5, the site had been abandoned, being covered by dark humus, but there may have been intermittent activity in the late middle ages (including the deposition of tools, coins, etc). The cultural background of the site’s inhabitants remains intriguing, suggesting that these were indeed a Hiberno-Norse group, but in its latter phases it was probably a Gaelic Irish crannog, whose owners had access to objects from Hiberno-Norse Dublin, as might be expected in the midlands o f the tenth to eleventh century AD. It was probably also a high-status occupation site, given the impressive architecture o f the houses, palisades, gateways and the richness of the finds' (Johnson 1999, 23-71). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan. Date of upload: 6 March 2017

• WM031-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small hillock, in pasture, with extensive views to the NE, E and SE and overlooked by a higher ridge to W. Ringfort (WM031-077----) lies c. 120m to E. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 37m E-W; 36m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is best preserved from NW-N-NE and from SE-S-SW, but is very faint from SW-W-NW and from NE-E-SE. The fosse is best preserved from N-NE and from SE-S-SW and is very shallow from SW-W-NW-N. There is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a SE-facing slope and an uneven surface with no features visible. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Ballinderry House, country house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey country house, built c.1870, having full-height two-gable fronted bays to the south end of the main elevation (east) and a multi-bay two-storey return to the rear (west). Two-storey box bay window to the southern most bay and two single-storey flat-roof canted bays to the north end of the main elevation (east). Pitched natural slate roofs with moulded red brick eaves cornice, red clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack. Terracotta finials to gable ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls having square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, paired to the two northern bays and grouped in three to the box bay window. Rendered block-and-start surrounds to the majority of the first floor openings. Square-headed door opening to the second gabled bay from the south having rendered block-and-start surround and a timber panelled door having an overlight above. Set back from road in own grounds with a substantial complex of outbuildings (15403018) to the rear (west). Crenellated boundary wall to the northeast of house. Located to the northeast of Moate.

• Ballinderry House, outbuilding, stables, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings, stables and former worker’s houses to the rear of Ballinderry House (15403017), built 1870 and possibly incorporated the fabric of earlier buildings. Complex comprises a two-storey stable block range to the north, now derelict, and a two-storey range to the south, divided into four three-bay units (possibly built as worker’s houses) and now in use as private dwellings. Pitched natural slate roofs, hipped to one corner, having rendered chimneystacks. Roughly coursed limestone rubble walls with square-headed openings having block-and-start surrounds. Remains of early fittings to range to the north and replacement fittings to buildings to the south. No openings to north face of range to the north, overlooking road. Former coach house, having a segmental-headed carriage arch with timber double doors, to the west end of range to south with a integral segmental-headed carriage built into a section of rubble limestone walling to the east end. Rubble stone boundary walls to site. Located to the rear (west) of Ballinderry House (15403017) and to the northeast of Moate.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Field gate, erected c.1875, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts, on octagonal plan having pyramidal heads, supporting a pair of wrought-iron bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the east and west. Located to the northeast of Ballinderry House (15403017) and to the northeast of Moate.

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 moderately low, 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 Ballinderry.

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

Name

Ballinderry · Baile an Doire

Area

4,003,332 m² (400.33 ha, 989.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumreragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Ballybroder, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybroder electoral division: 240 people in 76 households; 93% of households own their home; 12% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballybroder, Ballydoogan, Ballynagrenia, Cappantack, Cloghbane, Clonthread, Cooleen, Kilcatherina, Kilnahinch, Moyvoughly

Placenames

Ballinderry 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.