Ballymacartan

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacartan, from 302 m² to 168,536 m² (16.85 ha, 41.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballymacartan 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 Mar 2022Conditional

  To demolish existing shed, renovate existing dwelling and construct new extensions to existing dwelling, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22106

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  Construction of a bungalow dwelling house, garage, new domestic entrance onto the public roadway and closure of existing agricultural gate. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged waste water treatment system & polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197253

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 Ballymacartan.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-088 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in pasture, to the immediate E of a infilled sand quarry. Not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Monument depicted as an earthwork on Larkin's Map of 1808 (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1980 as a wide, low rise which has a wide shallow depression at the SW end, probably the result of quarrying. There are no surface remains visible of an antiquity. Old sand pit depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the earthwork depicted on Larkin's map of Westmeath. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacartan.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacartan.

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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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

Name

Ballymacartan

Area

614,767 m² (61.48 ha, 151.91 acres)

Civil parish

Killare, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Templepatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templepatrick electoral division: 198 people in 77 households; 81% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacallen, Keenoge, Moyvore, Pottiaghan Commons, Templepatrick

Placenames

Ballymacartan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.