Ballycorkey
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbixy, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 133490
- Area
- 1,623,840 m² (162.38 ha, 401.26 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballycorkey
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Iron SPA 004046
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Iron 000687
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- WM011-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on flat ground now surrounded by modern forestry plantation as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Located on the demesne lands of Baronstown House located 1.4km to the SSE. Possible ringfort that was re-used as a post 1700 tree-ring as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The field fence which forms the townland boundary with Ballycorkey is 30m to NW. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m E-W) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide external fosse. The bank is almost completely levelled, and the fosse was deepened when the interior of the site was planted with beech trees as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior has a slight slope from WSW-ENE, and a very shallow circular natural depression at centre. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2017
- WM011-004 Icehouse
Description
Situated in the demesne woodland of the levelled Baronstown House located 395m to SSW with walled garden 35m to NNE. A red-brick icehouse with brick arched entrance on the N side. Post-1700 icehouse serving Baronstown House which has since been levelled. The ice-house is now located in modern forestry plantation. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2017
- WM011-053003 Weir - fish
Description
Situated on the site of Tristernagh House with medieval bridge (WM011-052----) 160m to W. Lough Iron was originally 280m to NE but since the Inny River drainage scheme of the late 1960s the shoreline of the lake now stands 650m to NE. Augustinian priory (WM011-053----) of Tristernagh sometimes called the Priory of Kilbixy, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and founded by Geoffrey de Constantine of Cosmeston Castle, Glamorganshire, in the late 12th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 196; Dugdale 1846, 1147). In 1540 an extent of the priory lands made at Tristernagh recorded the existence of 'a weir on the lake (Lough Iron) called Nany Water (Inny River?), called the Pryors Were, yielding annually 180 eels' (White 1943, 276). The precise location of this eel weir known as the 'Prior's Weir' on Lough Iron has not been identified. The eel weirs depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map shown standing on the Inny River marking the townland boundary between Corry and Baronstown Demesne may have been built on the site of the eel weirs mentioned in the 1540 extent. In 1609 King James I granted Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham Castle the ‘site, & co. of the late priory, monastery, or religious house of the B. V. Mary of Tristernagh, 7 orchards and gardens, containing 2a, and all buildings within the same—20 messuages and cottages, 140a arable in Tristernagh, Abbotston, and the Grange—12 messuages and 100a arable in Templeforan—in all the said towns 120a pasture and bog— a ruinous castle, and 40a arable in Kilbiskie (Kilbixy), and a weir called the Frier’s weir upon the Naniwater in Kilbiskie parish—a castle, 6 messuages, 60a arable, and 60a pasture in Ballicarge—6 messuages, 40a arable, and 15a pasture, with a watermill in Milforen— 5 messuages, and 80a arable in Monckton- 40a arable, and 40a pasture in Rathcorballye—in Siffin, 60a pasture—in Donnowre, 60a pasture; with all the customs, rents, and services of the tenants of all the said premises—the rectories, churches, chapels, and tithes, & co. of Tristernagh, Kilbiskie (Kilbixy), Killucknevan (Killucan), Imper, Sonnagh, Raysback, Stafernan, Leen and Leaken’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., 7 Jas I). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 August 2017
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
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
- 162.5 ha
- 402 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 51,255 m² (5.13 ha, 12.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
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 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
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Ballycorkey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- 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.