Ballygarveybeg

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarveybeg, from 37 m² to 354,995 m² (35.5 ha, 87.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygarveybeg 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of slatted shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560620

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for: 1. 2 no. Extensions to the North Western Elevation of the Main Building with one consisting of Marshalling Area with 3 no Loading Bays and the other incorporating a Corridor and Internal Escape Stairs, 2. A Single Storey Extension incorporating Reception with Accessible Toilet and Breakroom, previously permitted for demolition under Pl Ref 11/5001, 3. A Single Storey Amenity Extension incorporating Canteen, Toilets, Locker Rooms, Link Corridor including lean-to Covered Walkway connecting to existing Main Building with Access Platform and Stairs from Existing First Floor Plant Rooms, 4. Stand alone Single Storey Laundry Unit, 5. Stand alone Electrical Substation, Switch Room and Transformer including associated plant, 6. LPG Storage Tank with Concrete Base, 7. CO2 Storage Tank with Perimeter Fence, 8. 3no. Steel Storage Containers, 9. First Floor Plant Room, Roof Mounted Plant including external Access Stairs & Ladders, 10. Stand alone Security Hut & Training Room. 11. All ancillary Site Works including alterations to Site Boundaries, Installation of Boundary Fence and Revised Car Parking layout from that permitted under previous planning ref 11/5001 & 13/6086. Planning Permission is also sought for Planting and Landscaping Works to the site boundaries and the provision of 13no. additional car parking spaces within the site.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560456

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Glen Lough SPA 004045
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glen Lough 001687

Recorded monuments

• WM005-007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Possible ecclesiastical enclosure (WM005-008002-) immediately to NE, Rathaspic church (WM005-008----) and graveyard (WM005-008001-) 200m to ENE, Rathaspic Castle (WM005-009----) 250m E. In the late 1930s the following folklore about St. Dermot's Well was recorded; 'There is another well in Rathaspic called St Dermot's well. There is a slab beside the well and written on it is St Dermots. There are certain cures in it' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 222). Spring well venerated as 'St. Dermot's Well' located beside public road with modern prayer shelter built beside stream flowing out of S side of well. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2016

• WM005-010 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 36-7) as following: ‘Approximately circular, dome-shaped mound (Diam. 20.4m N-S x 19.4m E-W) with flattened top (Diam. 4.7m N-S x 6m E-W) sloping down gently from SE-NW; given that the land on which it is sited slopes down from NW-SE,barrow is lower on NW side (H. 1.63m) than on SE side (H. 2.23m). Running around edge of mound partway up its slope, though not sticking to the same contour, is what appears to be a step or ledge, but it is unclear to what extent this is artificial or due to slippage, animal traffic or natural erosion; on SE side, upper surface of mound rises 1.65m over this step, which in turn rises 0.50m over ground level. Just 0.7m below top of mound, but only on SE side, is a step or ledge 2.60m in width which appears striking in profile; this appears more likely to be original than the lower, circumferential step. Poaching and other erosion has damaged the mound at various parts of its circumference, especially SE-S-W; and SE edge of mound appears to have been shorn off by passing farm vehicles. Although one ASI account, that of 29/5/78, does note that ‘there is no clear indication of a fosse though there is a slight depression on the NNE side,’ in its current state no perimeter ditch is visible around this tumulus, and its identification as a bowl-barrow by ASI should be rejected in favour of the mound-barrow category. Monument is situated in good pastureland, which has been under the plough in the recent past, perhaps removing evidence for peripheral features. It is prominently positioned on a glacial ridge sloping down from NW-SE, its highest point being 250m to NW of barrow. There are excellent views from E-S-W, and Frewin Hill (WM011-132----/133----/160----) and Knockdrin (WM012-183----), both very prominent hills with barrows, are visible to E. Traces of an old field system have been noted by ASI fieldworkers to NE, N and W of barrow [SMR file]. A small natural lake lying downhill c. 200m to N, which has been recently dredged, appears to be a kettle-hole. Only 750m to NE is an old burial ground (WM005-008001-) containing site of medieval parish church (WM005-008----) of Rathaspic (‘Rath of the Bishops’), which Leo Swan (1988, 14) identified as an early medieval ecclesiastical site on the grounds that the curving road pattern indicated the line of a diagnostic curvilinear rampart or vallum (WM005-008002-) surrounding the site; a short distance E of the burial ground is St Dermot’s Well (WM005-007----), still visited by pilgrims. There is a very large ringfort (WM005-014----), some 500m to SE’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 5 February 2016

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).

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

Name

Ballygarveybeg

Area

1,905,161 m² (190.52 ha, 470.78 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Glenlough, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarvey, Carrigagh, Clontymullan (Co. Longford), Cornapark (Co. Longford), Cross, Crumlin Or Rockfield, Henfield, Killinagh, Stongaluggaun

Placenames

Ballygarveybeg 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.