Balrath North
Townland in the civil parish of Castletowndelvin, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 73.8 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,930 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrath North, from 31 m² to 116,126 m² (11.61 ha, 28.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Balrath North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Dec 2020Conditional
The development will consist of the demolition of the existing single storey dwelling, existing agricultural style shed and domestic shed, the construction of a single storey replacement dwelling, detached domestic garage, decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of a wastewater disposal system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206359
19 Jul 2019Conditional
demolition of a vacant house and outbuildings and replace with a new two storey dwelling and detached garage, decommission existing treatment system and replace with a new treatment system and percolation area, also upgrade the existing entrance and wing walls and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196200
8 Feb 2017Conditional
extend existing private dwelling house and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176029
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 Balrath North.
Recorded monuments
- WM014-013 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a low natural ridge. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’. All that remains now is a low irregular ridge which has been substantially quarried into. No visible trace of the monument at this location which appears to have been quarried away. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 August 2018
- WM014-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Outline of a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 37m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. See attached image taken from Digital Globe aerial coverage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Hugh Carey Date of upload: 28 January 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Balrath North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Balrath North
- Area
- 738,068 m² (73.81 ha, 182.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletowndelvin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Ballyhealy, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrath South, Billistown, Bolandstown, Castletowndelvin, Clonmaskill, Clonyn, Martinstown, Southhill
- Placenames
- Balrath North 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.