Baltrasna

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baltrasna, from 278 m² to 370,971 m² (37.1 ha, 91.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Baltrasna 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.

• 21 Feb 2024Conditional

  construction of one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage, to upgrade and relocate existing entrance to public road, to connect to public watermain, to install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 246

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM026-018 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a long rectangular-shaped ruin (long axis NW-SE) annotated ‘Castle in Ruin’. Also depicted on this map is a small rectangular-shaped ruin (long-axis NW-SE) close to NW and annotated ‘Privy in ruin’. Baltrasna Castle described in 1981 as a much modified rectangular-shaped tower (dims. 8m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) with the ruins of a plain two-storey 18th/19th century farmhouse adjoining the SE gable. The tower has been extensively reconstructed and remodelled as an adjoining building to the farmhouse. Many of the original features are no longer apparent and all of the windows and door reveals have been rebuilt using brick. A few stone corbels protrude from the inner wall faces at first and second floor level, however they no longer form any obvious pattern, although they are assumed to have supported the original timber floors. The S wall is best preserved, however it does not appear to extend to its full original height and has features blocked up with patches of new brick. The top of the original tower seems to have been removed as part of the remodelling works. The other three walls do not appear to retain any original features due to the brick reconstruction works. This includes a large brick built arched opening in the N wall which seems to be quite modern and may suggest that the tower was used as an outbuilding of the later dwelling. The tower house has several large structural cracks in the walls and is quite overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• WM026-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to SSE. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 50m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The earthen bank is almost reduced to a scarp and is modified along the N side where it has been straightened. The fosse U-shaped fosse is best preserved from SE-S-SW and it is infilled from SW-W-N-E-SE. The perimeter is much disturbed from ENE-E-SE. The original entrance is not visible. A modern field boundary running NNE-SSW respects the perimeter from W-NW. The interior has a general SSW-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running E-W. A later scarp running NNW-SSE intersects the monument at NNE. The outline of the levelled monument which is interested at W by a post-1700 field fence is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached profile surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 30 September 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 Baltrasna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Baltrasna

Area

3,188,187 m² (318.82 ha, 787.82 acres)

Civil parish

Mullingar, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Castle, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronganny, Clongawny, Greatdown, Marlinstown, Plodstown, Russellstown, Windtown

Placenames

Baltrasna 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.