# Ballycor, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathconnell, barony of Moyashel and Magheradernon, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,345,153 m² (134.52 ha, 332.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,112 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathconnell, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/rathconnell.md - Barony: Moyashel and Magheradernon - Electoral division: Clonlost, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonlost electoral division: 469 people in 168 households; 93% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51627 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230117 - Centre: latitude 53.545138, longitude -7.20021 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycor, from 2,472 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 311,937 m² (31.19 ha, 77.08 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 93824: 311,937 m² (31.19 ha, 77.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/93824.md - Parcel 118091: 267,286 m² (26.73 ha, 66.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/118091.md - Parcel 119395: 236,470 m² (23.65 ha, 58.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119395.md - Parcel 118093: 188,037 m² (18.8 ha, 46.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/118093.md - Parcel 93288: 92,235 m² (9.22 ha, 22.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/93288.md - Parcel 118092: 91,983 m² (9.2 ha, 22.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/118092.md - Parcel 119394: 83,241 m² (8.32 ha, 20.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119394.md - Parcel 93963: 26,400 m² (2.64 ha, 6.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/93963.md - Parcel 93286: 7,112 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/93286.md - Parcel 2441995: 6,906 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2441995.md - Parcel 119393: 6,838 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119393.md - Parcel 119401: 6,522 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119401.md - Parcel 119247: 6,358 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119247.md - Parcel 119383: 4,165 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119383.md - Parcel 6138030: 3,570 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6138030.md - Parcel 119248: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119248.md - Parcel 5935193: 2,472 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5935193.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycor in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 24 Aug 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660445: N/a. Permission. development which will consist of refurbishment works to 24.2 kilometres (km) of OHL; comprising provision of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers; replacement of 73 no. pole-sets/poles; replacement of 9 no. pole-set cross arms only; refurbishment work to 19 no. wooden pole-sets; and the treatment and painting of 2 no. steel towers. These structures (No’s. 182-299) and the associated OHL lie between where the OHL crosses the border into County Westmeath in the townland of Grange More, to where the OHL ties-in to the existing Mullingar 110kV substation in the townland of Irishtown, crossing the County Westmeath townlands of Grange More, Craddanstown, Joristown Lower, Priesttown, Clonreagh, Corbetstown, Higginstown, Hodgestown, Millerstown, Corbally, Edmondstown, Clonlost, Clonickilvant, Ballycor, Aghadaugh, Killynan (Cooke), Mountrobert, Macetown, Rathconnell, Clonsheever, Culleen Beg, Robinstown (Levinge), Ballyglass and Irishtown. The Proposed Development also includes 1 no. temporary Construction Compound in the townland of Aghadaugh. The refurbishment works in County Westmeath will consist of: the replacement (‘restringing’) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires; the installation of fibre wrap; replacement of 7 no. steel towers and 73 no. wooden pole-sets/poles with similar dimensions and heights as the existing (replacement towers will be no more than 0.5m taller than existing and replacement pole-sets/poles will be no more than 3m taller than existing); installation of replacement parts on towers and pole-sets; foundation refurbishment / strengthening and recapping / clearing of shear blocks; treatment and painting of towers to be retained; all associated site development works, including temporary works areas; clearance of shear block bases; vegetation maintenance works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance and levelling at the 1 no. temporary construction compound; temporary works to existing tracks and new temporary access routes to each structure, one of which is within the curtilage of Millerstown House (protected structure RPS No. 020-050), in the townland of Millerstown; and all associated works required to facilitate the Proposed Development A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660445/0 - 10 Dec 2024, Westmeath County Council 2460470: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETENTION of roof extension and chimney at the rear of our existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460470/0 - 31 Oct 2019, Westmeath County Council 196301: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of an extension to an existing bungalow type dwelling, waste water treatment system & raised soil polishing filter & all ancillary site services.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/196301/0 - 6 Sept 2019, Westmeath County Council 196255: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and an adjacent domestic garage.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/196255/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM020-032: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM020-032----. Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 37m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE), however only depicted on revised OS maps as the arc of a scarp (H 0.65m) from ENE-S-W. Levelled monument described in 1998 as a short arc of bank (dims. L 5m; H 30-40cm) forming the SE perimeter of the earthwork. There are no other traces of the monument which appears to have been levelled. An ESB pole has been erected c. 1.4m inside the surviving arc. The farmhouse marked on the revised 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map appears to have extended the garden very slightly to S. Levelled monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 06 June 2019 - WM020-033: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM020-033----. Situated on an elongated natural hillock running NNE-SSW, in gently undulating pasture, having some poorly drained hollows. Good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 34m NE-SW; 27m NW-SE). Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. The site has modern cultivation ridges, modern banks and scarps which do no form any recognisable plan. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 06 June 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycor. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Ballycor. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballycor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballycor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballycor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghadaugh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/aghadaugh.md - Clonickilvant: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonickilvant.md - Clonlost: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonlost.md - Killynan (Pratt): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killynan-pratt.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballycor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/ballycor