Ballyhoreen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoreen, from 91 m² to 248,045 m² (24.8 ha, 61.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhoreen 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.

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto road and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660427

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  development which will consist/consists of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 140 hectares consisting of the following: 781,578sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 17 hardstanding locations for the installation of electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-5802, R-393, L-5913, L-1811 and the L-5808 public roads; a new access point and an upgrade to an existing access point along the R-393 public road and a new access point along the L-5808 public road; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; boundary fencing; and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460050

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 Ballyhoreen.

Recorded monuments

• WM011-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise and surrounded by low lying wet grassland with good views to the SW. The surrounding undulating land rises to the NE, E & SE. Grange Hall 120m to W. Earthwork (WM011-092----) 370m to E. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and not indicated on 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 33m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The fosse is best preserved from E-S. The interior rises slightly towards the centre and has vague traces of cultivation ridges which run NE-SW. The perimeter is intersected by a field fence from S-W. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017

• WM011-092 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of a gentle rise with extensive views to E, S & NW. Ringfort (WM011-091----) 370m to W. The road which marks the boundary with Grange townland is 5m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular enclosure annotated as ‘pit or old fort’. Depicted as a quarry and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site is almost completely levelled. All that remains is a large irregular shaped quarry hole and spoil heaps. Local information suggests that stone was quarried from this location to build Grange Hall, which is 500m to W. May have been a ringfort that was quarried out for materials to build Grange Hall. Alternatively the site may have been a quarry with no ringfort at this location. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017

• WM011-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on low lying wet grassland. Ringfort (WM011-094----) and mill race 100m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Depicted as circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Ringfort was levelled between these two dates. All that remains are vague suggestions of a circular scarp (approx. diam 37m NE-SW; H 1.4m). The perimeter is intersected by a drain running NNE-SSW and bank at NE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017

• WM011-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise on relatively low lying wet grassland with corn mill 520m to NNW. Ringfort (WM011-093---) 105m to NE. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure intersected at W by a mill race on the 1837 ed.OS 6-inch map. Not depicted on revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank. This bank is only visible at SW. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre where it levels off to form a depression. A mill race running NNE-SSW intersects the monument from W-SW. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 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).

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

Name

Ballyhoreen

Area

865,405 m² (86.54 ha, 213.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbixy, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Kilbixy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhug, Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, Ballysallagh (tuite), Balroe, Grange, Toor Commons, Tristernagh

Placenames

Ballyhoreen 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.