Ballinlaban

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlaban, from 353 m² to 292,262 m² (29.23 ha, 72.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlaban 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.

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the following: (1) Living room extension and a granny flat extension to the eastern side of the existing house; (2) Replace the existing roof with a new roof; (3) Single storey extension to the western side of the existing dwelling (4) Replacement of the existing septic tank with a propriety effluent treatment system and percolation area and (5) All ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206369

• 8 Jan 2020N/a

  to erect 4 no. Glamping pods, septic tank system with constructed wetlands and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206002

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 Ballinlaban.

Recorded monuments

• WM031-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on fairly level ground, in pasture, with fairly good views to S and SW. Bivallate enclosure described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. approx. 34m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The fosse is deep, wide and is best preserved from WNW-NW-N-NNE and is shallower elsewhere, particularly from SSE-S- and from SW-W. There are slight traces of an outer bank. The perimeter has been straightened from NE-E-SE where a field fence running NE-SW runs into the monument at the NE and continues around the perimeter before continuing to the SW. There is no indication of an original entrance. The interior has a slight S-facing slope and is fairly even. There is a large quarry depression just outside the monument at ESE. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019

• WM032-093001 Earthwork
  Description

  Described in 1977, a possible monument situated on level ground in pastureland that is overlooked on the E by a long ridge running roughly N-S. Site consists of a horseshoe-shaped area that is open to the E and is defined by a well preserved U-shaped fosse with no indication of an enclosing bank. There are no signs of the fosse or any enclosing element on the open E side. There is no indication of an entrance feature. The interior is fairly level and slopes very slightly from W to E. There is a large complex of shallow fosses and low banks in the field to the SW, W and N of the monument which appears to be the remains of an old field system (WM032-093002-). No monument is depicted at this location on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. The feature is depicted on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map as a horseshoe shaped area defined by a fosse which is open to the NE and on the aerial photograph taken from bing maps this fosse appears to be a water filled moat. This unusual feature along with the possible field system (WM032-093002-) could be the remains of post-1700 drainage of this poorly drained landscape. St. David’s Well (WM032-094----) is located 370m to the SSE. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2013 See attached jpeg file showing aerial photograph of horseshoe-shaped feature and field system taken from Bing Maps at www.bing.com/maps, accessed 28 March 2013.

• WM032-093002 Field system
  Description

  Described in 1977, as a large complex of shallow fosses and low banks in a field to the SW, W and N of a horseshoe-shaped earthwork (WM032-093001-). Some of the fosses run for a long distance in a N-S direction and others run into them aligned E-W forming small fields of square and rectangular shapes containing cultivation ridges visible on aerial photographs. St. David’s Well (WM032-094----) located at the SSE of the field in which the field system is located. The adjoining fields to the S and SW contain traces of this field system. The dating of this field system is uncertain but the extensive scale of this system may suggest that it is post-1700 in date. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2013 See attached jpeg files showing aerial photograph taken from Bing Maps of field system and cultivation ridges, www.bing.com.maps/, accessed 28 March 2013.

• WM032-094 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described in 1977 as a natural spring well dedicated to St. David, that is covered by a small rectangular stone built structure (int. dims. 1,73m E-W x 1.63m N-S; wall T 0.51m). The structure is built of rough rubble stones bonded with a rough mortar, no cut dressed stone visible. There is a small pointed doorway (Wth 0.75m; H 1.69m) in the NW corner leading down four small steps giving access to the spring well. The structure is now roofless but appears to have been roofed originally. There is a small flat stone projecting from the inside of the W wall just inside the doorway and on this have been placed some coins dating from 1918-1971. The structure is slightly covered in vegetation and is overshadowed by a large ash tree on its E side. The water from the well flows out under the W wall and into a drain to the S. In 1862, Reverend Cogan (1867, 497) recorded that there was a holy well dedicated to St. David in Ballinlaban, ‘which is still much frequented’. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2013

• WM032-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Described in 1977, as an enclosure situated on the highest part of a small ridge running roughly E-W, with extensive views in all directions. The monument consists of a long broad oval-shaped area (diam. 57m E-W; c. 47m N-S) defined by a scarp following the edge of the natural slope of the ridge in places. The shape of the interior is defined by the shape of the ridge on which the monument is situated. A possible ramp-like feature leading up to the scarp at the NE may be the remains of the original entrance into the interior. The interior of the enclosure is uneven and follows the natural contours of the ridge. The perimeter of the monument is partially overgrown with thorn bushes and tress particularly on the W side. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2013

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Ballinlaban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballinlaban

Area

1,886,608 m² (188.66 ha, 466.19 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacmorris, Brackagh Castle, Cappaduff, Cloonymurrikin, Coolalough, Donore Demesne, Gneevebrack, Greenan, Killard, Meeldrum, Skeheen (nagle)

Placenames

Ballinlaban 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.