Ballyowen

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyowen, from 667 m² to 168,962 m² (16.9 ha, 41.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyowen 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.

• 23 Feb 2022Refused

  1 no residential dwelling, formed of two part single storey house, associated garage, approved wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standard, and upgrade to existing vehicle entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2279

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• WM020-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a steep, prominent hillock, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM020-021----) lies c. 165m to SSE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a broad oval-shaped area (diam. 29m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The steep earth and stone bank is almost reduced to a scarp and is present from WSW-W-WNW. The remains of a slight fosse are present from S-W-N and NE-E. A low outer bank is evident from S-W-NW. A modern earthen field fence running NNW-SSE has been formed out of the inner bank at E. A slight gap (Wth at top 3.4m; basal Wth 1m) in the inner bank, inside the field fence and a slight causeway (Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 4.3m; H 0.3m) outside it, presumably represent the entrance. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and is pitted with slight hollows, including a large, shallow irregular hollow within the N quadrant. All of the hollows appear to be due to relatively modern disturbance. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 06 June 2019

• WM020-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a steep, naturally formed, gravel hillock, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM020-020----) lies c. 165m to NNW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 55m NE-SW; 44m NW-SE). Monument described in 1970 as a broad oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 37m) enclosed by a steep bank which is almost reduced to a scarp from WSW-W-N-ENE. There is no visible trace of a fosse. A gap (Wth at top 5.5m; basal Wth 2.6m) at N may represent the entrance. Some large stones lie on the surface inside the entrance at W. The interior rises appreciably from the perimeter to the centre. Within are two pronounced banks which extend from the perimeter at W and NW, to the centre, where there is a modern depression and a small quarry hole. A portion of the perimeter has been quarried at ESE. Much of the monument is visible today as a quarry on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 06 June 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Ballyowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballyowen

Area

656,610 m² (65.66 ha, 162.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killagh, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Chanonstown, Dardistown, Greenan, Killagh, Lunestown, Reynella

Placenames

Ballyowen 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.