Ballynagall

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagall, from 80 m² to 181,352 m² (18.14 ha, 44.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Ballynagall 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.

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  development which consists of retention of existing access and associated bridge, and permission to construct one number single-storey dwelling, one number single-storey garage, to upgrade existing access to public road, to connect to public water main, to install septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660077

• 11 Feb 2026N/a

  Retention of existing access and associated bridge, and permission to construct one number single-storey dwelling, one number single-storey garage, to upgrade existing entrance to public road, to connect to public water main, to install septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660041

• 22 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct one number single-storey dwelling, one number single-storey garage, to upgrade existing entrance to public road, to connect to public water main, to install septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560463

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a bungalow and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance, to erect new site boundaries and to install a treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460488

• 21 Mar 2022N/a

  to retain slatted shed with concrete area & to construct a new entrance with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 22124

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  to extend our existing dwelling to include at the side & rear, a sitting room with 3 bedrooms, en-suite, hall, hot press and bathroom and to construct a roof on the porch and to decommission existing septic tank and install a new septic tank and with percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22111

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  The development will comprise of 1) proposed new 67.3sqm Ground floor extension to existing dwelling including proposed new internal layout modifications. 2) remove existing first floor triangular dormer windows to west facing elevation and replace with new enlarged reconstructed square dormer windows. 3) Replace existing concrete roof tile finish to dwelling with proposed new selected metal standing seam roof finish. 4) Proposed new 25.5 sqm detached domestic garage. 5) connection to the existing on-site foul sewerage and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21199

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and stables with septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21185

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a new side extension and detached domestic garage including the reconstruction and enlargement of front porch and squaring of triangular dormer windows with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206034

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  retention for the existing grain storage shed and permission for an extension to the existing grain storage shed and all ancillary site services, Ballinagall House, stable buildings and their environs are a protected structure.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 196185

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  renovation works to the existing dwelling including demolition of existing rear extension, removal of existing roof finish and replaced with natural slate, demolition works include the existing outbuildings, agricultural sheds to the north of the dwelling. The development consists of construction of an extension to the side and rear and to construct a detached garage. The existing treatment system to be decommissioned and to construct a new treatment system and percolation area, upgrade the entrance and wing walls and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196177

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  a replacement wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186223

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: Scragh Bog SAC 000692
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Scragh Bog 000692

Recorded monuments

• WM012-119 Structure
  Description

  There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. Located on the Westmeath RMP map within a wooded part of Ballynagall demesne. It is not represented on either the first edition or current edition OS 6-inch maps. Listed in the SMR (1985) as 'Tower (site of)' and in the RMP (1996) as 'Tower'. No surface remains visible of any tower or structure on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

• WM012-166 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat grassland, surrounded by gently undulating land and overlooked by a nearby ridge to the W. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 38m NE-SW; 39m NE-SW) enclosed by two earthen banks and a wide deep intervening fosse. The inner bank is substantial (max. H 1m), and has several disturbance gaps. There is a possible entrance gap at SE. The fosse is almost completely filled up from N-E-SSE, and the outer bank is very slight, only visible from S-W-N. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2018

• WM012-169 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The precise location of Ballynagall Castle has not been identified. The castle is depicted on the 1655-9 Down Survey map of Portnashangan parish (NLI, MS 723-4) where it is shown standing close to the townland boundary with Brackcastle now Brockagh. The terrier of this parish map recorded that 'There are Scituate in it the Castles of Loughanstowne (WM012-117001-), Ballenegall'. The terrier of this parish map recorded that in 1641 Ballynagall Castle stood on the lands belonging to 'Richard Tirrell' who is listed as an 'Irish papist'. The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. There is no evidence to suggest that the ruins of Ballynagall House were built on the site of the medieval castle. Ballynagall House was built in 1808 for James Gibbons and according to local tradition it was built on the site of an 18th century house Castle Reynell and reused fabric from this castle in the construction of the 19th century house. In 1720 Arthur Reynell High Sheriff of Co. Westmeath purchased this estate from which the house received its name (Burke 1847, 1112). It is not clear if Castle Reynell was a new house built on the site of the medieval castle of Ballynagall or whether it was the medieval castle that was renamed Castle Reynell. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 October 2016.

• WM012-202 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in grassland on the demesne lands of Ballynagall House. The E shoreline of Lough Owel lies 530m to the W. Circular shaped enclosure depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Outline of ringfort clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 March 2018

Architectural heritage

• The Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house rectory, built c.1826. Now in use as a private dwelling. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and a central cut stone chimneystack placed parallel to façade. Constructed of coursed cut limestone with square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Central square-headed doorcase with timber door with overlight and canopy supported on brackets above. Set well back from the road in extensive mature grounds. Associated church, St. Mary's (15401215), located to the southwest (2kms).

• The Hollies, worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  A pair of semi detached three-bay two-storey worker's cottages, built c.1850. Now converted to a single private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roof with central shared cut stone chimneystack. Constructed of coursed cut limestone with flush limestone dressings. Square-headed window openings with multipane timber casement windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed doorcases with replacement glazed timber doors to centre bay of both structures. Set back from the road in own grounds with modern extension to northeast side. Cut stone gate posts to front (southeast).

• Ballynagall, gate lodge, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted two-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1880, with canted bay windows to ground floor on entrance front and a projecting cut stone pedimented single-bay single-storey Doric porch to (chamfered) northwest corner. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative red clay ridge tiles, clay fleur-de-lis finials, pierced bargeboards and a single red brick chimneystack. Constructed of snecked rock-faced limestone with red brick trim. Square-headed and segmental-headed windows openings with replacement fittings, red brick surrounds to openings on gable ends (north and south). Square-headed window openings. Set behind entrance screen with rendered gate piers on square-plan and interlocking metal railings. Previous served the back entrance (into stable block) of Ballynagall House (15401212).

• Woodview House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former estate worker's house on L-shaped plan, built c.1820. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with shallow segmental-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Projecting slated canopy porch supported on timber brackets at centre (adjacent to gable-fronted section at junction of 'L') with square-headed doorcase. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Ballynagall, country house, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey Regency style house, built c.1808, with central two-bays brought forward as a breakfront and two-bay single-storey wings to north and south of main block. Segmental bow projection to rear (east). Originally had projecting cut stone single-storey Ionic porch to entrance front, subsequently removed, c.1965. Now derelict and out of use. Hipped natural slate roof, now removed, with remains of eaves cornice. Remains of brick chimneystacks with render over running both parallel and perpendicular to the roof ridge. Built of coursed rubble limestone with render over. Projecting string course at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with moulded architraves to main façade with entablatures over first floor openings. Square-headed openings to projecting segmental bow to rear elevation flanked by a Wyatt-style tripartite window to either side. All window fittings now removed. Square-headed doorcase to centre with fittings now removed. Remains of wrought and cast-iron conservatory to south with cast-iron columns having lotus capitals. Set well back from the road in undulating parkland, now in use as farmland. Stableblock (15401213) to northwest and main gate lodge (15401214) and entrance gates to southeast.

• Ballynagall, stables, 1805–1840 · National interest
  Description

  Ranges of multiple-bay two-storey stable block on U-shaped plan, built c.1808 or c.1824. Central integral carriage to southeast elevation with ashlar limestone bellcote over. Now in use as agricultural outbuildings. Hipped natural slate roofs with ashlar limestone chimneystacks. Constructed of ashlar limestone with ashlar trim, including projecting ashlar limestone string courses at first floor level and at eaves level. Projecting ashlar limestone plinth to base. Square-headed openings to exterior facades. Square-headed openings to ground floor in interior of courtyard with round-headed openings above to first floor, all set in full-height round-headed recesses. Mainly replacement window and door fittings throughout. Cast-iron lamp brackets to interior. Modern corrugated-iron canopies over stable doors to southwest range (interior). Located to the northwest of Ballynagall House (15401212) with remains of further outbuildings to northwest.

• Saint Mary's Church (Portnashangan), church/chapel, 1820–1830 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1824. Now in use as a restaurant with modern single-storey extension to the north. Church comprises five-bay hall with single-bay single-storey gable-fronted porches to centre of south and north elevations of nave. Three-stage tower on square-plan (with clasping diagonal corner buttresses) adjoining to the west with raised parapet with English-style crenellations, corner pinnacles and a needle spire on octagonal plan. Pitched slate roof behind continuous battlemented parapet with eaves cornice and cast-iron rainwater goods. Original roof removed in 1989. Constructed of snecked dressed limestone with extensive ashlar detail. Pointed segmental-headed Perpendicular windows, triple-light to nave openings and to lower stage of tower (on south and north faces) and five-light to chancel/sanctuary gable (east), each with cut stone switchback mullions, chamfered reveals and drip mouldings over. Pointed segmental-headed doorcases to west face of tower and to projecting porch on south side of nave with studded timber doors and drip mouldings over. Paired square-headed window openings to second stage of tower with chamfered reveals, stone mullions and hoodmouldings over. Clock face to second stage, above windows, to south face. Pointed segmental-headed openings to belfry (third stage) with cut stone Perpendicular tracery, drip mouldings over and modern leaded windows. Set back from road in mature wooded grounds at the entrance to Ballynagall House (ruinous). Original entrance to east with cast-iron gates, cut stone gate piers on square-plan with decorative coping over and rubble limestone boundary walls. Church now approached from the south through entrance gates to Ballynagall House. Associated rectory (15401206) located c.1 kilometre to the west, at west end of former Ballynagall Demesne.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballynagall.

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

Name

Ballynagall

Area

3,387,597 m² (338.76 ha, 837.09 acres)

Civil parish

Portnashangan, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaree

Electoral division

Owel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Owel electoral division: 480 people in 174 households; 91% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagall, Brockagh, Culleen More, Garrysallagh, Kilmaglish, Loughanstown, Moneylea, Portnashangan

Placenames

Ballynagall 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.