Ballyboy
Townland in the civil parish of Portloman, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 5638007
- Area
- 12,434 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 247 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyboy
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Feb 2024Conditional
development which will consist/consists of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 140 hectares consisting of the following: 781,578sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 17 hardstanding locations for the installation of electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-5802, R-393, L-5913, L-1811 and the L-5808 public roads; a new access point and an upgrade to an existing access point along the R-393 public road and a new access point along the L-5808 public road; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; boundary fencing; and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460050
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Roman Catholic church on cruciform plan, built c.1830 and extended c.1850, comprising single-bay nave, single-bay chancel and single-bay transepts to the north and south. Later single-bay vestry added to chancel gable, c.1920. Pitched slate roofs with projecting eaves courses, combed ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone cross finals to transepts gables, wrought-iron crosses nave and chancel gables. Diagonal clasping buttresses to chancel gable (east). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised quoins to the corners. Pointed-arched window openings with flush cut stone block-and-start surrounds and sills having stained glass windows. Timber Y-tracery to transept and nave window openings. Pointed-arched door openings with flush cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having replacement doors with stained glass overlights. Church set back from road in own grounds with extensive graveyard to the west. Freestanding two-stage belfry, on square-plan, to the southwest with pebbledashed walls with quoin details, roundel and pointed-arched openings and a pyramidal natural slate roof. Site bounded by rendered walls. Main gateway to the east with cut stone gate piers on square-plan with cut stone capstones over having wrought-iron double gates.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 59.2 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 5,698 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 600 m² to 229,037 m² (22.9 ha, 56.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyboy 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
12 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention permission for the existing extension to the existing house, consisting of: 1. on the southwest consisting of a utility room (8.6sqm) 2. on the northeast of the dwelling, consisting of a playroom, hallway, and home office (57sqm) 3. on the attached garage (42.6sqm) with first floor attic storage (42.6sqm) 4. and attached 3 no. stables with open storage (41.3sqm). Permission is also sought to decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and install a new septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460327
2 Apr 2019Conditional
construction of a 1.5 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196093
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 Ballyboy.
Recorded monuments
- WM018-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low rise, in pasture with restricted views due to nearby low ridges. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semi-circular-shaped earthwork, c. 45m S of Ballyboy House. Described in 1980 as a partially levelled, D-shaped area (dims. 31m NW-SE; 18.6m NE-SW) with a modified straight sided scarp to NE, beyond which the monument has been levelled from NW-N-E. The surviving portion of the earthwork is defined by an earth and stone bank from E-S-W-WNW. The bank is well preserved from SE-S-SW-WSW and at WNW, but it is reduced to a scarp WSW-W-WNW. There is no indication of an entrance and there is no trace of a fosse. The surviving portion of the interior is generally level and there is a small, shallow rectangular depression near the centre. A modern field boundary runs NE-SW just outside the perimeter to SE and a second boundary runs NW-SE to N. This partially levelled monument is visible as a tree-planted D-shaped area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 January 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboy
- Area
- 592,270 m² (59.23 ha, 146.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Portloman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaree
- Electoral division
- Tullaghan, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballard, Lugnagullagh, Slane Beg, Slane More, Walshestown North
- Placenames
- Ballyboy 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.