Ballynagall
Townland in the civil parish of Portnashangan, barony of Corkaree, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 6.3 ha
- 16 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagall. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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
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
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynagall.
Architectural heritage
- Ballynagall, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, with shallow bow projection to centre of main façade (south). Now in use as a private dwelling. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with wide overhanging bracketed eaves and central cut stone chimneystack. Constructed of ashlar limestone with ashlar detailing. Square-headed opening with tripartite timber sliding sash window with cut stone mullions to bow projection, flanked by round-headed niches to east and west. Set back from road adjacent to main gates to Ballynagall House (northwest).
- Ballynagall, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gates to Ballynagall, built c.1830 and altered c.1880, comprising two pairs of ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan with ashlar limestone coping over, quadrant sections of ashlar plinth wall with wrought-iron railings over and wrought-iron double gates. Coursed rubble limestone boundary/demesne wall with crenellated coping over to north. Located adjacent to attendant gate lodge (15401214) at entrance to Ballynagall.
- Saint Mary's Church (Portnashangan), gates/railings/walls, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gates to St Mary's Church of Ireland church, built c.1824, comprising pair of cut limestone gate piers of square plan with chamfered arises and cut limestone 'gablet' coping over and a pair of cast-iron double gates. Now out of use. Set into coursed rubble limestone boundary/demesne wall adjacent to St. Mary's Church and to the east of Ballynagall House.
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 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
- 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
- 63,454 m² (6.35 ha, 15.68 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, Cartron, Kilmaglish, Knockdrin, Moneylea, Quarry
- 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.