Ballynagall
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcumny, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 144.8 ha
- 358 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 5,224 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagall, from 695 m² to 704,352 m² (70.44 ha, 174.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2025N/a
construction of an agricultural storage shed (403.8sqm) and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560284
10 Sept 2024Conditional
development which will consist of the change of house type from previously granted planning permission (file ref: 20/6360), to include the demolition of the existing rear extension and front porch, and the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling. The development will also consist of amendments to the existing fenestration, the construction of a domestic garage, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460324
17 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission to construct a part single storey, part 1.5 storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling and detached domestic garage/store, demolish existing rear flat roof extension, make internal alterations and modifications to existing dwelling, to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and relocate existing entrance
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206360
13 Aug 2018Conditional
to construct a bellmouth type entrance and associated site development works to service existing forestry plantation
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186242
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynagall.
Recorded monuments
- WM008-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the E facing slope of a low ridge which runs from NW-SE in wet pasture-land, with good views of undulating land to NE, E & SE. Stream 95m to N which marks townland boundary with Johnstown. Trackway (WM008-028----) 320m to W. A large slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 76m N-S; 74m E-W) enclosed by a fragmentary earthen bank, levelled from W-N, a slight fosse and low counter-scarp bank. There is a possible entrance gap (Wth 2.9m) at S. The interior slopes gently from WSW-ENE and has traces of cultivation ridges which run WNW-ESE. A field boundary running N-S intersects the monument from ENE-E-SSE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise in well drained grassland, with good views to the S & W. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 42m N-S; 46m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and wide shallow external fosse. The bank has several disturbance gaps and has been quarried away at NNE. There is an entrance gap at SW. The interior has a general slope from N-S, and has been quarried away on the SSW. It contains shallow depressions of unknown significance, probably quarry holes. A field fence running NNE-SSW intersects the monument at N & S. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynagall.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynagall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynagall
- Area
- 1,448,442 m² (144.84 ha, 357.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcumny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Kilcumny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcumny electoral division: 225 people in 87 households; 77% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Collinstown, Drumcree, Glananea or Ralphsdale, Johnstown, Robinstown
- 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.