Ballynagall Little

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagall Little, from 1,901 m² to 196,834 m² (19.68 ha, 48.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynagall Little 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 Ballynagall Little 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 Ballynagall Little.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-058 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low hill with extensive views to the N, E & S. Country house marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Gaulstown' located 220m to NNE. An irregularly shaped raised area (approx. diam. 30m N-S) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank visible at NE & SW only, elsewhere reduced to a scarp, with short segment of external fosse visible at SE only. The monument platform and the area around the site has been subjected to quarrying in the past. The S sector of the site has been partially quarried away. The grass-covered wall footings of a long rectangular house site (WM003-058001-) possibly of 17th century date, occupies most of the interior of the ringfort. Another sub-rectangular platform in the S quadrant of the interior may represent a second hut site. The enclosing element of this earthwork may be contemporaneous with the house site and could be represent a small courtyard or paddock around the house. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• WM003-058001 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on a low hill with extensive views to the N, E & S. Country house marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Gaulstown' located 220m to NNE. The grass-covered wall footings of a long rectangular house, orientated on a N-S axis, occupies most of the interior of the enclosure (WM003-058----). The long house possibly of 17th century date has the remains of entrance gaps directly opposite each other at S end of E and W sides. Slight traces of an internal division suggests that the house was divided into two rooms. House plan best preserved from S-SW. Another sub-rectangular platform in the S quadrant of the ringfort interior may represent a second hut site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 November 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynagall Little.

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).

No address of the register names Ballynagall Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballynagall Little

Area

435,771 m² (43.58 ha, 107.68 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Glore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagall, Ballynameagh, Rathcreevagh, Tromra

Placenames

Ballynagall Little 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.