Ballinlig
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcumreragh, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 63.9 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 18,573 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlig, from 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 206,256 m² (20.63 ha, 50.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlig 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Mar 2026Conditional
the construction of a new extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660146
5 Aug 2021Conditional
The erection of a new two-storey dwelling with connection to a new effluent treatment system and percolation area and the erection of a new separate domestic garage, with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21436
12 Mar 2019Conditional
1) Demolition of existing single storey shed (failing due to structural issues), removal will improve sightlines at site entrance. On the demolished shed's location, construct a new single shed for the purposes of storage. 2) To main house, build a two storey rear extension. Added ground floor to be; lounge, utility, WC, kitchen/dining/family space. First Floor to be; bedrooms, storage. Incorporate existing shed attached to house as part of the living space. Change the use of this shed annex from garden equipment storage to bedroom/gym room. (3) The site is to be landscaped and installation of a waste water treatment system with percolation are and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197060
11 Apr 2017Conditional
Planning Permission for a new milking parlour & dairy with associated meal bin & holding yard with slatted tank, and retention permission for an existing slatted cubicle shed, and planning permission for a new cubicle & storage extension to this existing slatted cubicle shed, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177071
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinlig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinlig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinlig.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Ballinlig.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinlig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinlig
- Area
- 639,087 m² (63.91 ha, 157.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcumreragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- 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
- Ballagh, Ballybrickoge, Custorum, Kilcatherina, Kilcumreragh
- Placenames
- Ballinlig 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.