Ballinlig Lower

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlig Lower, from 113 m² to 235,354 m² (23.54 ha, 58.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlig Lower 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 Dec 2022Conditional

  Construction and extension to the east of his existing dwelling. The extension will contain an extra bedroom and living quarters. The application will also include a new effluent treatment system with tertiary treatment and percolation bed and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2260025

• 28 Sept 2022N/a

  construct an extension to the east of existing dwelling. The extension will contain an extra bedroom and living quarters. The application will also include a new effluent treatment system with tertiary treatment and percolation bed and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22471

• 17 Aug 2021Conditional

  (i) The conversion of a former house into a habitable dwelling (ii) demolition of a section of the east elevation and alterations to elevations of former house (iii) reinstating roof over single storey section on the east elevation with the addition of rooflights (iv) construction of a single storey extension to the east elevation (iv) new septic tank and percolation area (v) site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21461

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  Construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197214

• 16 Sept 2019N/a

  Construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197192

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  Construction of slatted shed, changes to existing entrance & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197120

• 30 Oct 2018Refused

  Construction of a slatted shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 187203

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 Ballinlig Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WM024-132 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 33) as following: 'This monument was almost entirely removed during construction of a silo-pit between 1971, when first visited by an ASI fieldworker, and 1977, when visited a second time. The 1971 account, identifying it as a ring-barrow, is as follows: A small, low, approx circular flat-topped area surrounded by remains of a well defined earthen bank with an internal wide shallow fosse. From SW-W-NW the bank and a small part of the fosse have been quarried away. A sectional profile of the perimeter of the site is visible in the resulting almost straight and almost vertical quarry face. Modern fences contact the outside of the bank on the NE and SE and between those two points the outer face of the bank has been steepened to form part of a boundary. It is overgrown with thorn trees there now. A gap in the bank on the N is probably a later feature due to disturbance. Sited on a small natural rise and surrounded by gently undulating land of poor to average pasture. Good views to the W and N. N-S diameter from top of bank = 22.20m. The site is disturbed in places by burrows. [SMR file] By the time it was revisited, only a part of the bank (H. 1.5m) survived on SE side; also a part of W side of interior survived, outside which to NW was a mound of rubble presumably resulting from the destruction of the monument. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM024-188 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  An irregular shaped tree-lined earthwork or enclosure is visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph (pers. comm. C. McCormack). This enclosure is outlined on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as an irregular-shaped grove of trees and not as an antiquity. No archaeological monument or any earthwork is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Probably the remains of a tree-ring or grove of trees dating from the late 1800s or early 1900s which was planted to enclose an area of marsh land. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Well, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Natural spring/well with cut and rubble limestone surround, erected c.1750, possibly in earlier use as a holy well. Roughly cut stone basin to base. Located in a field to the northeast of Ballinlig House (15402418) and to the south of Ballymore.

• House, 1750–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with lobby entry plan, built c.1780, having windbreak porch to centre of main façade (southeast). Single-bay lean-to shed to the southwest end. Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-iron roof over two-bays to southwest and pitched corrugated cement/asbestos over two-bays to the northeast with raised cement verges to gable ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Three-rendered chimneystacks with central chimneystack, above porch, aligned along the roof ridge. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings, irregularly spaced and irregularly sized, having stone sills and one surviving timber sill and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door to projecting porch with timber sheeted door and cobbled threshold. Set back from road in own grounds with complex of single-storey rubble stone and rendered outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the south, with pitched roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods and square-headed openings. Dressed stone lintel and reveals to door of outbuilding to the west. Approach avenue from road to the east is flanked by dry rubble limestone walls to either side.

• Bridge, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over small river/stream, dated 1787. Constructed using rubble limestone with dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Rubble limestone coping over parapets. Date stone to parapet engraved '1787'. Located to the southeast of Ballymore.

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

Name

Ballinlig Lower

Area

1,135,271 m² (113.53 ha, 280.53 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Umma, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown, Ballinlig Upper, Clare, Clonybane, Coolatoor, Mullenmeehan, Raheen

Placenames

Ballinlig Lower 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.