Balrowan (pakenham)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrowan (pakenham), from 265 m² to 209,669 m² (20.97 ha, 51.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Balrowan (pakenham) 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 May 2022Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling (100.2sqm) and to construct one number replacement dwelling house (230sqm) and to upgrade existing agricultural entrance to accommodate as shared agricultural entrance & domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22275

• 6 Apr 2022N/a

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling (100.2sqm) and to construct one number replacement dwelling house (230sqm) and to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to accommodate as shared agricultural entrance & domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22177

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 Balrowan (pakenham).

Recorded monuments

• WM020-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the side of a natural scarp, overlooked by higher ground to SE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 22m NW-SE; 19.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with a scarp in places and an outer fosse. The earth and stone bank is present from SE-S-W-N-NE and is reduced to a scarp from NE-E-SE, whereby it drops into the interior from the external ground level. The slight shallow fosse is only visible from S-W-WNW. A gap (Wth at top 4.2m; basal Wth 1.7m) in the bank at SSE presumably represents the entrance and there is a large disturbance gap at NW. The interior has a gentle NNE-facing slope and traces of cultivation ridges running WNW-ESE. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 July 2019

• WM020-138 Cist
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in October 1963 a report was received in the Museum stating that a cist grave was known to be located in Balrowan townland, near Killucan, Co. Westmeath (Cahill & Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 519). The site had been known about for some time but was under crop for some time. When Mr Leavy, a local, reported that the area was accessible, it was visited by Etienne Rynne and Peter Danaher. On arrival they found that the exact site of the cist was not known, and could not be located, although the approximate location has been marked on the map. The site was therefore not investigated (NMI File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 December 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balrowan (pakenham).

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 Balrowan (pakenham) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Balrowan (pakenham) · Baile Ruáin (Pakenham)

Area

561,593 m² (56.16 ha, 138.77 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Killucan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley), Porterstown (cooke), Rathnarrow, Rathwire Upper, Sarsfieldstown

Placenames

Balrowan (pakenham) 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.