# Ballymachugh, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Newtown, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,431,236 m² (143.12 ha, 353.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,129 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Newtown, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/newtown.md - Barony: Moycashel - Electoral division: Newtown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51932 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230147 - Centre: latitude 53.368874, longitude -7.438141 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymachugh, from 370 m² to 154,296 m² (15.43 ha, 38.13 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 103780: 154,296 m² (15.43 ha, 38.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103780.md - Parcel 128021: 152,502 m² (15.25 ha, 37.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128021.md - Parcel 125134: 147,944 m² (14.79 ha, 36.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125134.md - Parcel 5133411: 108,551 m² (10.86 ha, 26.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5133411.md - Parcel 126158: 102,725 m² (10.27 ha, 25.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126158.md - Parcel 103519: 101,462 m² (10.15 ha, 25.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103519.md - Parcel 103518: 82,188 m² (8.22 ha, 20.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103518.md - Parcel 100681: 79,052 m² (7.91 ha, 19.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100681.md - Parcel 102099: 67,451 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102099.md - Parcel 128024: 53,893 m² (5.39 ha, 13.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128024.md - Parcel 128022: 49,398 m² (4.94 ha, 12.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128022.md - Parcel 100679: 37,091 m² (3.71 ha, 9.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100679.md - Parcel 126150: 34,243 m² (3.42 ha, 8.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126150.md - Parcel 100680: 32,089 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100680.md - Parcel 103781: 29,680 m² (2.97 ha, 7.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103781.md - Parcel 128023: 29,113 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128023.md - Parcel 128020: 23,522 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/128020.md - Parcel 127417: 17,823 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/127417.md - Parcel 103520: 17,129 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103520.md - Parcel 125110: 17,022 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125110.md - Parcel 127418: 16,334 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/127418.md - Parcel 125276: 15,025 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125276.md - Parcel 2639169: 11,750 m² (1.18 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639169.md - Parcel 126147: 5,279 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126147.md - Parcel 103771: 5,110 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103771.md - Parcel 125275: 5,033 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125275.md - Parcel 5378478: 4,707 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5378478.md - Parcel 5279256: 4,303 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5279256.md - Parcel 103292: 3,837 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103292.md - Parcel 100678: 3,665 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/100678.md - Parcel 103286: 3,432 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103286.md - Parcel 126344: 3,296 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/126344.md - Parcel 125336: 2,839 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125336.md - Parcel 103794: 2,574 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103794.md - Parcel 103770: 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/103770.md - Parcel 125120: 1,083 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/125120.md - Parcel 4724302: 370 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4724302.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 13 Feb 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660050: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660050/0 - 15 Sept 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560452: Conditional. Permission. construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, demolition of existing shed to achieve sightline and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560452/0 - 23 Jun 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560310: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560310/0 - 2 Jan 2025, Westmeath County Council 2560001: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new two storey dwelling, a domestic shed to the rear, site entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560001/0 - 29 Sept 2023, Westmeath County Council 23133: N/a. Permission. construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23133/0 - 8 May 2017, Westmeath County Council 176142: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176142/0 - 8 Feb 2017, Westmeath County Council 176031: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176031/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Split Hills and Long Hill Esker SAC, site code 001831, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001831 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Split Hills And Long Hill Esker, site code 001831 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymachugh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 15403825, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403825. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2023.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballymachugh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballymachugh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballymachugh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymachugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardan.md - Ardmorney: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardmorney.md - Ardnaglew: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnaglew.md - Garryduff: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/garryduff-230653.md - Kilcloghan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilcloghan.md - Newtownlow: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/newtownlow.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballymachugh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/ballymachugh