Ballynakill

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 707 m² to 403,835 m² (40.38 ha, 99.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakill 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.

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  To construct a community playground with boundary fencing and associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 187051

• 17 Jul 2017Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, garage and septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177128

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• WM022-006 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Ballynakill Castle described in 1979 as the ruins of a rectangular tower house standing two storeys high of which only the SE (approx. L 9m) and SW (approx. L 6m; H 6-7m) walls survive upstanding. The walls are constructed of limestone with a prominent base batter visible. The facing stones of the batter and the quoins have been robbed out. The interior of the castle is covered and used as a cattle shed. The remains of barrel vaulting can be seen over the ground and first floor levels. A pile of stones lie to S of the castle ruins. The remains of a probable bawn wall (WM022-006001-) adjoin to SW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 July 2019

• WM022-006001 Bawn
  Description

  Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Possible bawn belonging to Ballynakill Castle described in 1979 as the remains of a small rectangular enclosure defined by a low bank adjoining the SW wall of a tower house (WM022-006----). This possible bawn area is depicted in dotted outline on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remaina visible today of the bawn on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 July 2019.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with attached lean-to to north end. Hipped natural slate roof having two central rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with smooth bands to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone surrounds, cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental headed door opening with cut stone door surround having keystone detail over and a replacement timber door. Set back from the road in own grounds to the west of Toberclare/Tubberclare.

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

Name

Ballynakill

Area

564,091 m² (56.41 ha, 139.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Auburn, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill Upper, Kilfaughny, Lissakillen North, Lissatunny, Lowpark Or Ballyboy, Rooan, Toberclare

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.