Ballynagore
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownkindalen, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Béal Átha na nGabhar
- Area
- 23.7 ha
- 59 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,355 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- M2
- Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagore, from 671 m² to 81,489 m² (8.15 ha, 20.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
- M2Self Sustaining Rural Consolidation (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Ballinagore, Westmeath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Sept 2020N/a
extension to house incorporating sitting room, bedrooms and dormer storage area, construction of domestic garage and fuel store, fitting new effluent treatment system and retention of sheds as constructed.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206231
30 May 2018Conditional
new dormer/storey and a half style dwellinghouse, domestic garage/store and including provision of a waste water treatment and percolation system to EPA specifications with all necessary ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186169
16 Mar 2017Conditional
Construction of a single storey classroom extension with ancillary accommodations and associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176080
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 Ballynagore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynagore.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's National School, school, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey school on H-plan, built in 1914, having advanced two-bay gable-fronted wings to either end of the main body of the building (southeast) to the front and to the rear elevations. Single-storey flat roofed toilet block extension to the rear (northwest) and a detached open seven-bay single-storey flat-roofed playshed to the northwest, erected c.1950. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and having projecting chimneybreasts with brick chimneystacks over to the centre of each advanced wing to the front (southeast). Smooth rendered walls over projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Replacement uPVC door to central bay with sidelights. Cut stone date plaque, dated 1914, above door. Set back from road in own grounds with modern rubble stone boundary wall with three-stepped stile to the road-frontage (southeast). Located to the north ofBallynagore.
- Ballynagore Bridge, bridge, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-span road bridge over river Brosna, built c.1720 and new central arch added in 1951. Random rubble construction to early arches to either end (east and west) having rubble stone voussoirs and cut stone coping over parapet walls. Smooth concrete construction to 1950's rebuild with rusticated concrete blocks to parapets having reused cut stone coping over. Cut stone date plaques, one with Irish inscription to southern parapet wall and one with English inscription northern parapet, reading 'Office of Public Works Brosna Drainage Rebuilt 1951'. Located to the west end of Ballynagore village.
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 Ballynagore.
- 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 Ballynagore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynagore · Béal Átha na nGabhar
- Area
- 237,416 m² (23.74 ha, 58.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownkindalen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- Electoral division
- Ballynagore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynagore electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykilroe, Killinlahan, Knockycosker, Lissakilly
- Placenames
- Ballynagore 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.