Ballindurrow

118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindurrow, from 11 m² to 226,564 m² (22.66 ha, 55.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Expanded Settlement Centre (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Multyfarnham, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  a Change of Plans on previously granted planning reference No. 22/474 and all associated site works. “The site of the proposed house is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS 011-001)”.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660032

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  change of plans. previously granted planning reference No. 22/474 and all associated site works/ “The site of the proposed house is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS 011-001)”

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560643

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  demolition of an existing two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling and constructing a replacement two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling, a ground floor extension linking the existing side entrance to the new two storey extension, and connections to existing ancillary site services together with associated site works. The Old Dispensary (formerly Rivervale) is a protected structure, No. 007-037

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460507

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  off licence (8.5 sqm) and all associated site works at the above address

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460206

• 2 May 2024N/a

  off licence (8.5 sqm) and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460139

• 29 Sept 2022Conditional

  construct a single-storey house, install a domestic wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter and carry out all associated site works. The site of the proposed house is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure in the Westmeath County Council Development Plan 2021-2027 - Record of Protected Structures No. 011-001 refers

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22474

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  extend existing dwelling at the rear to include a kitchen, dining area with 2 velux windows, a lobby, bathroom and playroom with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22430

• 23 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct an agricultural storage shed for machinery storage (267.5sqm) and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2280

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, new site entrance, connection to public sewer and water and all associated site works within the curtilage of a protected structure ref RPS No. 007-038

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2237

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  to demolish (a) existing dwelling and construct 6no. terraced 3 bed dwellings on street parking and all associated site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Westmeath County Council, 21559

• 18 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house part 2 storey part 1 storey, detached garage with car port, new site entrance gate and boundary wall to public road and connection to the mains sewer all with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21267

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of 1) Demolish dwelling house & domestic garage and decommission septic tank and soak hole. 2) Construction of a replacement dwelling house and domestic garage, 3) Installation of packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, 4) Retention of the widening of the site entrance and gravel surfaced yard area, 5) Construction of a shared entrance area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21231

• 22 May 2020N/a

  A 10 year permission to upgrade, reorientation and expansion of previously permitted electricity substation granted as part of Coole Wind Farm (Pl. Ref 17/6292; ABP Ref PL25M/300686) in the townland of Camagh (Fore by). The laying of underground cabling predominantly along the public road corridor to facilitate the connection to the national grid of the permitted wind farm along a route measuring approximately 26.4 kilometres, through the townlands listed below, between the proposed substation in the townland of Camagh (Fore by) and the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown (Moyashel and Magheradernon by). Works to complete the cable connection to the existing Mullingar 110kV electricity substation including the construction of a dedicated bay within the existing substation compound in the townland of Irishtown(Moyashel and Magheradernon by). All associated site works and ancillary development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206121

• 8 Apr 2020Refused

  construction of a two storey type dwelling and domestic garage together with permission to upgrade existing site access with the construction of a combined site entrance, to erect site boundaries, install a treatment system and associated polishing area together with all associated site works. Permission is sought to retain the widening of existing site entrance and overgrown associated gravel yard

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206092

• 9 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, garage and to connect into existing public foul sewer and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176220

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 Ballindurrow.

Recorded monuments

• WM006-061 Church
  Description

  The medieval nave and chancel parish church dedicated to St Andrew in the village of Multyfarnham is depicted as a ruinous building on the 1659 Down Survey map of the parish of Multyfarnham (NLI, MS 723-4). In the papal Taxation of 1302-06 the church of Multyfarnham located in the deanery of Mullingar is valued at 100s. yearly (Cal. Doc. Ire., 259). In 1411 the rectory of the parish church of St. Andrew of Multyfarnham was described as being of lay patronage which is ‘vacant at present by the death of Robert Oconyngean’ and which was then conferred to Bernard Macmurkerchaid [Mac Murtagh], a clerk of the diocese of Ardagh’ (Costello 1909, 84). In 1449 the death was recorded of ‘Geoffry de Lemara [Delamere], rector of the parish church of Multyfarnham’ (ibid., 98). In 1492 there is a reference to ‘Thebaldus de la Mayr’ [Theobald Delamere] who is described as the rector of the parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle of Multyfarnham (ibid., 170). Depicted as ‘St Andrew’s Chapel’ and shown as a long rectangular building on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Only the W gable of the church is depicted on the 1912 ed. OS 25-inch map. The long rectangular church ruins stands on a low rise of ground with unlocated medieval castle site (WM006-060----) to N, possible motte (WM007-072----) 110m to NE with River Gaine 160m to NE. Franciscan friary (WM006-058----) 500m to N. Present remains consist of a short upstanding section of the N end of the W gable of a medieval nave and chancel church standing in the centre of a sub-triangular shaped graveyard (WM006-061001-). The remaining walls of the church ruins are indicated by recently exposed low wall footings. Inside the church ruins are some post-medieval headstones. Scattered throughout the graveyard are several architectural fragments belonging to the medieval church that have been inserted into the graveyard.These include the punch dressed arch stone of the original church doorway, two window sills and one chamfered punch dressed window jambstone. It is not clear if these fragments have been inserted into the graveyard to act as gravemarkers in the post medieval period or whether they have been inserted into the graveyard in recent times as part of graveyard clean up scheme. St. Andrew’s Church ruins were described in 1976 as following: ‘Apart from some standing wall remains in the NW corner and some further rubble collapse at the E end of the N wall. Very little survives. The basic rectangular plan (quiet large) of a medieval parish church (ext. dims. L approx. 20m E-W; 6.3m N-S; Wall T 1.05m) can be made out, the footings are now grass covered and mounded up. There is a door ope 6m W of the E end of the N wall showing reveal stone and another less obvious gap opposite in its S wall. The standing wall remains at the NW corner have been cemented or dashed over and look very unsightly. No features visible. The masonry underneath appears to be very small poor quality. There is no clear trace of an internal division. Headstones and tombstones within and without chapel – modern. The graveyard wall is high at W side of site but probably modern. Here at a distance of 9m out from this wall there is a low bank curving round to the S. It appears to be a double banked feature in places with a width of 4m between and so could be the remains of an earlier roadway’ (SMR File 15/07/1976). Today there are no surface remains of this possible medieval roadway as a modern cemetery extension is now located on the W side of the medieval graveyard. In 1980 the church ruins were described as following: ‘only a small portion of the west gable smothered in ivy and shored up with concrete approx by grass covered wall footings. The building was aligned approx. E-W and measures approx. 9.5m N-S by approx. 26m E-W. The east end is rather disturbed. There are indications that the church was divided into a nave and chancel. The chancel being approx. 8m long by 8.5m wide N-S. Precise measurements are impossible because of long grass and collapsed stones. The ruin is within a roughly triangular graveyard bounded by a stone wall. There are several 19th and 20th century tombstones in the graveyard (SMR file 08/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM006-061001 Graveyard
  Description

  Sub-triangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 65m N-S x 43m E-W) on the S side of the village of Multyfarnham with medieval church ruins (WM006-061----). The graveyard stands on a low rise of ground with unlocated medieval castle site (WM006-060----) to N, possible motte (WM007-072----) 110m to NE with River Gaine 160m to NE. Franciscan friary (WM006-058----) 500m to N. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the 18th century onwards and is enclosed by a post-medieval stone wall with entrance gate at E and modern cemetery extension to W. Scattered throughout the graveyard are several architectural fragments belonging to the medieval church that have been inserted into the graveyard. It is not clear if these fragments have been inserted into the graveyard to act as gravemarkers in the post medieval period or whether they have been inserted into the graveyard in recent times as part of the graveyard clean up scheme. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM007-072 Castle - motte
  Description

  Small flat-topped motte located immediately E of St. Nicholas’ R.C. Church and 70m W of the River Gaine in the village of Multyfarnham. Medieval church (WM006-061----) and graveyard (WM006-061001-) located 110m to SW. Described in 1985 as following; ‘The motte (top diam. 9.8m WSW-ENE; 12m NNW-SSE) is located on the E side of a low ridge with the River Gaine just to the E of it. It is a well preserved motte on the edge of Multyfarnham village. There is no indication of a bailey and if one existed it probably occupied the area now to the W of the motte as the natural slope is from the W to the E down to the nearby River Gaine. This area is now occupied by St. Nicholas R.C. Church’ (SMR File, 12/03/1985). A second report from 1985 recorded that the monument consisted of ‘a large roughly circular mound of earth and some stones. The N and W sides of the motte have been defaced by the boundary walls of a churchyard (on W) and by yards and gardens (on N). The E and S sides of the mound are regular and steep. A fosse-like depression at the base of the mound from SE-S-SSW continues on along the S side of the churchyard S wall’ (SMR File). The flat-topped mound may be the site of the unlocated levelled castle (WM006-060----) that is depicted on the 1659 Down Survey parish map of Multyfarnham (NLI, MS 723-4). A preservation order was placed on this monument in 1985. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2015

• WM007-123 Bridge
  Description

  In 1682 Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh described the route of the River Gaine and the mills and bridges along its route. He wrote the following about the bridge at Multyfarnham; 'it passeth to Multifornan, where it falleth under another large bridge; thence to a mill (WM006-076----), whence immediately it watereth the ground of the late Friery of Multifernan (WM006-058----)' (Vallancey 1786, 6). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 December 2016

• WM011-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on well drained grassland with reasonable views of the surrounding countryside. Corn Mill located 175m to E. A sub-oval shaped area (approx. diam. 40m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide shallow external fosse which is only visible at N & E. From S-W-N the perimeter is formed by a field fence, and a laneway intersects the monument at S. Only the enclosing element on the W side of the monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 June 2017

Architectural heritage

• Ballindurrow House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c.1820. Extensively modified to front with enclosed glazed timber front porch and new concrete steps, plinth wall and balusters. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end. Formerly thatched. Roughcast rendered with raised block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Round-headed doorcase hidden behind modern porch. Set back off the main road in private mature gardens. Exterior ground level reduced to rear of property allowing level access to basement level from rear yard. Modern outbuildings to the side and rear enclose the rear courtyard.

• Mill (water), 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey former corn mill on L-shaped plan, built c.1820. Now disused. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with projecting limestone eaves course, clay ridge tiles and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Built of randomly coursed limestone rubble. Square-headed window openings with rough stone sills and remains of timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings with timber sheeted doors. Remains of timber water wheel to east side and machinery to interior. Set back from road on small country lane adjacent to former mill race (running roughly west-to-east).

• Gainevale House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former rectory on L-shaped plan, built c.1820, extended to west and north. Now in use as a private residence. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of rubble limestone with brick detailing to openings. Formerly rendered. Square-headed window openings with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and ground floor of original structure and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash to ground floor of extensions. Round-headed doorcase to main façade (south) with limestone block-and-start surrounds, timber panelled door with plain fanlight over and a flight of limestone steps. Replica block-and-start doorcase to west elevation. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with outbuildings to rear (east)

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with projecting single-bay single-storey porch to south end of main façade (west). Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, raised verges, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over smooth rendered chamfered plinth. Rounded/chamfered corner to ground floor at northeast end. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills and replacement sliding sash-style uPVC windows. Square-headed doorcase to projecting porch with timber panelled door and overlight above. Rubble limestone wall to north, set perpendicular to main house, with a wrought-iron gate leading to a small rear courtyard enclosed by rear return to the main house (south) and a whitewashed single-storey limestone outbuilding with corrugated tin roof (east). Road-fronted a short distance to the south of Multyfarnham Village adjacent to St. Nicholas Church

• Saint Nicholas's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic chapel, built c.1830, comprising two-bay nave, single-bay transepts and a three-stage tower on square plan with corner buttresses, string courses and a slated spire to northeast side (nave). Pitched natural slate roofs with raised limestone verges, carved ashlar kneeler stones and carved stone cross finials. Constructed of roughly coursed rubble limestone over ashlar plinth with flush ashlar quoins to corners. Pointed-arched openings with timber Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched doorcase to north face of tower with carved limestone surrounds, limestone hoodmoulding over and timber sheeted double-doors. Clockface to second stage of tower with paired pointed-arched louvred vents to belfry on third stage. The church is bounded to the front by a rubble limestone wall with semi-circular limestone coping over. Grotto to north surrounded by wrought-iron and cast-iron boundary railings. Interior is plainly finished with three round-headed Gothic niches with ogee-headed frames and crocketed finials to the altar wall (no chancel or east window). Marble monuments include those to Rev Michael Duff (1869), by Farrell and Son, and to Rev. B. Moore (1862). Located just to south of the centre of Multyfarnham.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Originally built as two separate dwellings. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed faced limestone with square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some paired to top floor. Enlarged openings to ground floor with tripartite timber casement windows. Square-headed doorcases with timber glazed door to east and timber sheeted double-door to the west. Road-fronted with a raised section to east end, close to doorcase, enclosed by metal railings with interlocking diamond pattern and central bosses.

• The Forge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey former forge, built c.1840. Now in use as a store/outbuilding. Pitched tiled roof with raised limestone verges. Built of rubble limestone with a horseshoe-shaped opening with dressed limestone surrounds and sheeted timber double doors. Set back slightly from footpath and forms part of the boundary of the rear yard of the adjacent building, now in use as a restaurant. Located to the east side of Multyfarnham adjacent to River Gaine. Broken blacksmith's stone now placed against building to east.

• Bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over River Gaine, built c.1850. Constructed of squared limestone rubble with rusticated limestone voussoirs to arch and rusticated limestone coping to parapet walls. Located to east end of Multyfarnham Village adjacent to main entrance to Multyfarnham Abbey.

• Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, erected c.1890, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted neck and cap with finial and curved handle. Located at edge of open green in centre of village and surrounded by a modern limestone wall with stone paving.

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

Name

Ballindurrow

Area

1,729,377 m² (172.94 ha, 427.34 acres)

Civil parish

Multyfarnham, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Multyfarnham, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Culleenabohoge, Culleendarragh, Heathland, Multyfarnham, Multyfarnham Or Fearbranagh, Rathganny

Placenames

Ballindurrow 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.