Ballycorkey

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycorkey, from 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 304,558 m² (30.46 ha, 75.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballycorkey 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycorkey in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballycorkey.

Recorded monuments

• WM006-044 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained grassland 40m S of the Inny River, which is also the boundary between Bakllycorkey and Rathclittagh townlands. Eel Weir 60m to W on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and Ballycorkey Bridge 100m to NE. No surface remains visible of medieval castle. Depicted as ‘site of castle’ standing inside a square shaped field on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, which also shows that the river was wider at this time. Rectangular field or possible bawn (WM006-044001-) now defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow fosse as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The NW side of this rectangular area is covered by spoil from dredging of the river. Low banks extend SE & E from the rectangular enclosure. A single dressed fragment of limestone of medieval date in the roadside wall near the gateway may have come from the castle. Line of old roadway visible as earthwork in field immediately to SSE of castle site. Several linear earthworks in field to S and E of rectangular enclosure may be related to the medieval castle or could be the remains of post-medieval drainage ditches. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 January 2017

• WM006-044001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained grassland 40m S of the Inny River, which is also the boundary between Bakllycorkey and Rathclittagh townlands. Eel Weir 60m to W on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and Ballycorkey Bridge 100m to NE. No surface remains visible of medieval castle (WM006-044----). Depicted as ‘site of castle’ standing inside a square shaped field on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, which also shows that the river was wider at this time. Rectangular field or possible bawn area (approx. dims. 50m NE-SW; 55m NNE-SSW) now defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow fosse as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The NW side of this rectangular area is covered by spoil from dredging of the river. Low banks extend SE & E from the rectangular enclosure. A single dressed fragment of limestone of medieval date in the roadside wall near the gateway may have come from the castle. Line of old roadway visible as earthwork in field immediately to SSE of castle site. Several linear earthworks in field to S and E of rectangular enclosure may be related to the medieval castle or could be the remains of post-medieval drainage ditches. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

• WM006-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a lozenge-shaped grove of trees standing on an island in the Inny River, 200m ENE of Ballycorkey Bridge. Today a grove of trees stands on reclaimed grassland 45m N of the Inny River as shown on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2017

• WM006-080 Bridge
  Description

  Depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a multi-arched road bridge crossing the Inny River which marked the townland boundary between Ballycorkey and Rathclittagh and the parish of Kilbixy with Rathaspick. Site of Castle (WM006-044----) located immediately to SSW and eel weir 140m to SW. The present 19th century Ballycorkey Bridge was built on the site of an earlier bridge, parts of which are still visible on either side of the single arch bridge. Ballycorkey Bridge was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Wide-span single-arched road bridge over River Inny, dated 1857. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier bridge to either end (north and south). Constructed using coursed rusticated squared limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to segmental arch. The present bridge replaced an earlier twelve-arch bridge located at this site, at a time when the River Inny was considerably wider at this point (Ordnance Survey Map 1838; Lewis 1837). The sections of the approaches to this bridge, to the north and south, which is supported by buttresses at a number of locations, are probably part of this earlier bridge and may be of considerable antiquity' (NIAH Reg. No. 15400601; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15400601/ballycorkey-bridge-rathclittagh-westmeath) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2022

• WM006-081 Weir - fish
  Description

  Annotated 'Eel Weir' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted on the E side of the river immediately beside the Site of Ballycorkey Castle (WM006-041----). Ballycorkey Bridge stands 140m NE. No surface remains visible of this eel weir which now stands on dry land as the channel of the Inny River was narrowed considerably during the mid 19th-century OPW drainage works. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2022

Architectural heritage

• Ballycorkey Bridge, bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wide-span single-arched road bridge over River Inny, dated 1857. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier bridge to either end (north and south). Constructed using coursed rusticated squared limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to segmental arch. Projecting pulvinated string course at road level and at springing point of arch. Dressed limestone barrel-shaped coping over parapet and terminating piers, on square-plan to either end (north and south). Located to the south of Rathowen.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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.

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.

No address of the register names Ballycorkey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballycorkey

Area

1,625,040 m² (162.5 ha, 401.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbixy, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Kilbixy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bardanstown, Baronstown, Baronstown Demesne, Corry, Cumminstown, Mace, Rathclittagh

Placenames

Ballycorkey 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.