Ballymachugh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymachugh, from 370 m² to 154,296 m² (15.43 ha, 38.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballymachugh 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.

• 13 Feb 2026Refused

  planning permission to construct a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area and to use the existing domestic entrance on the adjacent site as a combined entrance for use onto the adjoining roadway with all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660050

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, demolition of existing shed to achieve sightline and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560452

• 23 Jun 2025Refused

  to construct a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area and to use the existing domestic entrance on the adjacent site as a combined entrance for use onto the adjoining roadway with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560310

• 2 Jan 2025Conditional

  a new two storey dwelling, a domestic shed to the rear, site entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560001

• 29 Sept 2023N/a

  construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 23133

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  to renovate and extend existing thatched cottage to the side & rear (120 sqm. extension) and to install a septic tank and percolation area. Permission is also sought to demolish existing outbuildings and renovations to include replacing upvc windows and doors at front, remedial works to existing chimneys and insulating internally and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176142

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176031

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Split Hills and Long Hill Esker SAC 001831
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Split Hills And Long Hill Esker 001831

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymachugh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1800, having a single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the front façade (south ) and single-bay single-storey outbuildings attached to either gable end (east and west). Pitched thatched roof with decorative ropework to ridge and having a pair of rendered chimneystacks to the centre. Pitched corrugated metal roofs to outbuildings. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch (south) having replacement timber sheeted door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt to the south having a cast-iron water pump. Single-storey outbuilding to the southwest of the house. Located to the east of Kilbeggan and the west of Tyrrellspass adjacent to the main Dublin to Galway road.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2023 (ZIP).

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 Ballymachugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballymachugh

Area

1,431,236 m² (143.12 ha, 353.67 acres)

Civil parish

Newtown, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtown electoral division: 262 people in 82 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardan, Ardmorney, Ardnaglew, Garryduff, Kilcloghan, Newtownlow

Placenames

Ballymachugh 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.