Ballycahan

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahan, from 247 m² to 540,945 m² (54.09 ha, 133.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycahan 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.

• 8 Mar 2025Conditional

  renovation and restoration of existing derelict house including the construction of a single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, construction of a detached garage, installation of a septic tank percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560095

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional

  Retention of extension to house and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460391

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

  development which will consist of the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, proposed entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460065

• 20 Oct 2020Conditional

  The development will consist of 1. External and internal alterations and remodelling of existing dwelling. 2. construction of a single storey, flat roof extension to the rear. 3. New drainage, waste water treatment system, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206291

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 Ballycahan.

Recorded monuments

• OF008-013 Bridge
  Description

  This bridge is part of the nearby Big House known as Belview House and mill complex located to the south of the bridge and probably dates to the late 18th century. The present stone bridge which traverses the River Brosna where it connects county Offaly to Westmeath may have replaced an earlier bridge as in the 17th century Lismoyny was described as the 'chief entrance into Fercall' by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy in 1601 (Cal. S.P. Ire. 1600-1601, 203-264). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• WM037-013 Bridge
  Description

  County boundary bridge (OF008-013---) associated with Belview House and mill complex located 170m S of the bridge and probably dates to the late 18th century. The present stone bridge which traverses the River Brosna connects county Offaly to Westmeath and may have replaced an earlier bridge as in the 17th century Lismoyny was described as the 'chief entrance into Fercall' by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy in 1601 (Cal. S.P. Ire. 1600-1601, 203-264). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 May 2017

Architectural heritage

• Building misc, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey former bleach/linen/scutching mill, built c.1780, having a two-storey return to the west elevation. Single-bay single-storey former entrance porch with a segmental-headed opening to the centre of the east-facing elevation. Now a roofless ruin. Originally had pitched natural slate roofs, partially remaining to return. Projecting cut stone eaves course and with the remains of brick chimneystacks to main body of building. Constructed of random rubble stone with roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Rendered finish to rear return and some sections of render surviving to the main body of the building. Square and segmental-headed window and door openings, fittings now gone. Segmental-headed carriage-arches. Set back from road a short distance to the south of the River Brosna. Former bleaching green to the southwest.

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

Name

Ballycahan

Area

1,497,450 m² (149.75 ha, 370.03 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybought (Co. Offaly), Cartron (Co. Offaly), Clongowly, Keeloge, Kilclare (Co. Offaly), Lismoyny, Moycashel

Placenames

Ballycahan 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.