Balrath

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrath, from 290 m² to 229,487 m² (22.95 ha, 56.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Balrath 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 Balrath 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 Balrath.

Recorded monuments

• WM017-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture immediately NNE of a modern farmyard. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area encircled by a single row of trees. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 28m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a bank with external fosse, the bank is reduced to a scarp from WSW-W-N where monument has been incorporated into a field boundary. The monument appears to be used as a paddock within a modern farmyard as shown on Digital Globe aerial photography. Monument described in 1975 as a subcircular-shaped area (diam. 45m) defined by an earth and stone bank which has been reduced to a scarp with the remains of a shallow external fosse. There is a possible entrance gap (base Wth 2m; top Wth 4.3m) at NE, with a number of modern gaps elsewhere. The external fosse is not visible from WSW-W-NNW where a modern field fence has been built up against the bank. The interior has a gentle NE-facing slope. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• WM017-068 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on relatively low-lying ground, in wet pasture, with reasonably good views to N and S, townland boundary with Skeagh Beg lies immediately to S. No monument depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small oval-shaped earthwork truncated at SW by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Described in 1980 as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (25m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a low scarp with slight traces of a fosse visible from NNW-N-E, and a narrow causeway (approx. Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) at N which may indicate an original entrance. The scarp is very poorly defined and is barely traceable from SSW-W-NW, where the monument has been truncated by a modern field fence running NW-SE. A large number of field clearance stones obscure the scarp from E-SE. The fosse is very faint and poorly defined. The interior is uneven and rises irregularly from the perimeter towards a long central mound-like rise. There are a number of small, shallow depressions and loose stones on the surface of the interior, which are due to disturbance. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 19 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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.

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.

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

Name

Balrath

Area

873,089 m² (87.31 ha, 215.74 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconrath, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghboy, Kilgawny, Rathcastle, Rowlandstown, Skeagh Beg, Skeagh More

Placenames

Balrath 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.