Ballybroder
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcumreragh, barony of Clonlonan, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Baile Uí Bhruadair
- Area
- 39.2 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 2,832 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybroder, from 2,622 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 386,922 m² (38.69 ha, 95.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballybroder 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
28 Oct 2025Conditional
permission to alter, renovate & extend my existing bungalow type dwelling house. The works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2542
23 Sept 2025N/a
permission to alter, renovate and extend my existing bungalow type dwelling house. The works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2537
15 Aug 2025N/a
Permission to alter, renovate and extend existing bungalow type dwelling house. Works will include alterations to the front elevation, extension of the living and kitchen areas and associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2531
27 Oct 2020Conditional
Construction of a five-bedroom dwelling and domestic garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207167
3 Apr 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197078
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Ballynagrenia And Ballinderry Bog NHA 000674
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybroder.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybroder.
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 Ballybroder.
- 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 Ballybroder with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybroder · Baile Uí Bhruadair
- Area
- 392,395 m² (39.24 ha, 96.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcumreragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlonan
- 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, Ballinderry, Ballynagrenia, Kilcatherina
- Placenames
- Ballybroder 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.