Ballymorin

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymorin, from 367 m² to 214,118 m² (21.41 ha, 52.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymorin 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymorin in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballymorin.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-096 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent natural rise (128m/420ft OD), which is part of a natural ridge running N-S, in pasture, with extensive views in all directions. A public road lies c. 10m to NE, with St. Nicholas church (WM017-100----) and graveyard (WM017-100001-) 70m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular mound (approx. dims. 22m N-S; 25m E-W) with an OS trig. point on summit marking 419 ft. OD. Described in 1980 as a high, steep-sided, roughly circular-shaped. flat-topped mound of earth and stone which is densely overgrown with vegetation. Areas that are visible on the N, E and S sides have no grass-cover and the soil is exposed. There are a fairly large number of stones visible in the sides of the mound. There are a series of three roughly formed terraces at the edges of the mound to N and E, which may represent slippage. The large stones appear to be set in rows at these points, potentially forming a revetment. The remains of a shallow fosse are present from W-NW-NNW and a field fence obscures the outer edge. The top of the mound is reasonably flat and appears to be featureless, although it is largely obscured by dense overgrowth. There is no indication of a bailey. The monument is respected by a curvilinear field boundary to W. An old field bank runs E-W just outside the base of the mound at S. The area to E appears to be disturbed where there are a number of small depressions, a small mound of earth and stones and some large boulders or outcroppings of bedrock. Monument visible today as a roughly oval-shaped tree-covered area on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 December 2018

• WM017-099 Cross
  Description

  Recorded in 1981 that a 'note pencilled onto map refers to a cross near Newbristy school. This is referred to in OS Letters. It is not marked on O. S. map. Newbristy School is situated beside the road on boundary of Ballymorin and Tobercormick townlands. A local woman said "she had heard tell that the like was there long ago" ' (SMR file). The OS Letters recorded that 'On Mullach an tSleibhe, near Newbristy National Schoolhouse there stood a cross which was frequently visited by persons who performed stations or repeated prayers at it.' The precise location of this monument is unknown and the current coordinates can only be considered indicative. (SMR file) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 24 June 2015

• WM017-100 Church
  Description

  19th century St. Nicholas Church of Ireland church may have been built on site of medieval church of Ballymorin depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Rathconrath barony and on the parish map of Ballymorin (NLI, MS 723-4) (Swan 1988, 22). On the parish map the church is depicted standing just N of the S boundary of the glebe land of Ballymorin with a house (WM017-101----) standing further to S in area where 'Almoritia' is annotated on current ed. OS 6-inch map. The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey map of Ballymorin parish stated that in this townland there was a 'House & Church' (NLI, MS 723-4). Present church located in N quadrant of graveyard (WM017-100001-). Present Church of Ireland building described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'Freestanding Church of Ireland church, rebuilt c.1816 and altered c.1887, comprising three-bay hall with attached three-stage tower on square-plan to the west having a raised parapet with English-style crenellations and corner pinnacles. Shallow sanctuary/chancel added to east and a single-storey vestry added to northeast corner, c.1887. This appealing Church of Ireland church was rebuilt on the site of (and possibly incorporates the fabric of) an earlier church in the early nineteenth-century. It was rebuilt in a subdued Gothic style and retains its early form, character and fabric' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 15401725). Compiled and Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 09 January 2019

• WM017-100001 Graveyard
  Description

  19th century St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland church may have been built on site of medieval church of Ballymorin (WM017-100----). Present church located in N quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 26m N-S x 38m E-W) enclosed by a post 1700 stone wall with entrance gate at N end of W wall. Present Church of Ireland building described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'Freestanding Church of Ireland church, rebuilt c.1816 and altered c.1887, comprising three-bay hall with attached three-stage tower on square-plan to the west having a raised parapet with English-style crenellations and corner pinnacles. Collection of memorials commemorating the Meare Family of Meares Court to the interior, the earliest of which dates to 1704. Set back from the road in a quiet country location and surrounded by a graveyard with mature trees and mainly nineteenth century grave markers. Rubble limestone boundary wall and gate piers (on square-plan) to west having a wrought-iron gate' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 15401725). Compiled and Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 09 January 2019

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

Name

Ballymorin · Baile Mhóirín

Area

1,162,831 m² (116.28 ha, 287.34 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymorin, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymorin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard, Clonymurtagh, Corr, Dalystown, Farthingstown, Newbristy North, Newbristy South, Rahadorrish, Tobercormick

Placenames

Ballymorin 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.