Balrath

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrath, from 1,582 m² to 128,936 m² (12.89 ha, 31.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  New metal storage unit for Class 1 Hazardous goods store including pyrotechnics and all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2522

• 2 May 2025N/a

  development on site for new metal storage unit for Class 1 Hazardous goods store including pyrotechnics and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2514

• 20 Sept 2024N/a

  development which will consist of a New Metal Storage Unit for Class 1 hazardous goods store including pyrotechnics and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2466

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  The development consists of permission to construct (1) agricultural slatted shed incorporating slatted areas and underground slurry storage tanks (2) and complete all ancillary and associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206371

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

• WM001-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise of ground, at the NE foot of a high hill on good pasture-land with poorly drained land to N & NE. Roughly raised oval-shaped area (diam. 25m N-S; 22.8m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank best preserved at SW elsewhere reduced to a scarp and an external fosse with entrance gap (base Wth 1.6m; top Wth 6.7m) at SW. The interior is uneven and contains a small natural mound now partially quarried away. Laneway running N-S intersects perimeter of site at E. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

• WM001-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on N facing slope of rising ground at NW foot of the ‘Hill of Mael’ with good views of the surrounding countryside. Roughly circular raised area (diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (H c. 2.5m) and external fosse (Wth c. 2.5m; D c. 1.2m) visible from SW-W-N, with traces of an external bank only visible from N-E. A post-1700 field wall runs along the line of the fosse from E-S-SW. The scarp is considerably higher on the N side, and the interior slopes unevenly down to the N. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 November 2016

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).

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

736,382 m² (73.64 ha, 181.96 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagross, Bigwood, Carlanstown

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.