Ballygillin
Townland in the civil parish of Killulagh, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 5757809
- Area
- 12,402 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 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
- Ballygillin
Planning applications on this parcel
30 May 2025Conditional
A 10-year planning permission and a 40-year operational life for a solar energy development with a total site area of 157 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical transformer stations; (iii) underground electrical and communications cabling within the proposed development site, private lands and within the carriageway of the L1501, L1505, L5610, L5611 and L5614 public roads; (iv) containerised battery energy storage facility; (v) the upgrade of 4 no. existing site entrances and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vi) on-site access tracks; (vii) 4 no. temporary construction compounds; (viii) security fencing and gates; (ix) pole-mounted security cameras; and (x) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560268
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- 67.3 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygillin, from 101 m² to 433,279 m² (43.33 ha, 107.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygillin 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
30 May 2025Conditional
A 10-year planning permission and a 40-year operational life for a solar energy development with a total site area of 157 hectares comprising (i) photovoltaic solar panels on steel mounting frames; (ii) electrical transformer stations; (iii) underground electrical and communications cabling within the proposed development site, private lands and within the carriageway of the L1501, L1505, L5610, L5611 and L5614 public roads; (iv) containerised battery energy storage facility; (v) the upgrade of 4 no. existing site entrances and development of 1 no. new site entrance; (vi) on-site access tracks; (vii) 4 no. temporary construction compounds; (viii) security fencing and gates; (ix) pole-mounted security cameras; and (x) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report and a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560268
3 Mar 2025Conditional
proposed alterations, including changes to the applicants and plans, to the previously approved application (Reference No. 22149), which was granted for the development. The development consists of a residential dwelling, associated garage, approved wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standards, a new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560081
12 Feb 2025N/a
proposed alterations, including changes to the applicants and plans, to the previously approved application (reference number 22/149)
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560040
29 Nov 2023Conditional
the proposed demolition of an existing utility room, bathroom & boiler room to rear of an existing dwelling house along with the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side of the same dwelling house, the decomissioning of an exisitng septic tank and percolation area which is to be replaced with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360412
29 Mar 2022Conditional
1 no. residential dwelling, formed of one part single, one part two storey house, associated garage, approved wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standard; and new vehicular entrance at
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22149
21 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house & detached garage with septic tank & percolation area with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22123
23 Feb 2022N/a
1 no. residential dwelling, formed of one part single, one part two storey house, associated garage, approved wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standards and new vehicular entrance
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2278
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 Ballygillin.
Recorded monuments
- WM013-095 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low rise in grassland. A circular shaped enclosure is depicted at this location on an estate map of 1833 (NLI 21F 80 (28)). No surface remains visible of any monument at location marked on OS 6-inch map. Faint circular crop mark visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 July 2018
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 Ballygillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygillin
- Area
- 673,188 m² (67.32 ha, 166.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killulagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Killulagh, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dardistown, Hiskinstown, Reynella, Williamstown (briscoe)
- Placenames
- Ballygillin 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.