Lowpark or Ballyboy

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowpark or Ballyboy, from 589 m² to 569,966 m² (57 ha, 140.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Lowpark or Ballyboy 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.

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21128

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 Lowpark or Ballyboy.

Recorded monuments

• WM022-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture with good views from SE-W. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 49m E-W; 47m N-S) enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank with traces of an external fosse. The bank is best preserved from NW-NE, although it is has been partially levelled from SW-W. The perimeter has been modified to form part of the townland boundary from W-NNW. There is a wide gap (Wth at top 6.5m; basal Wth 3m) at E and a narrower disturbance gap at N. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. Modern farm sheds immediately at E have been built up against external face of enclosing bank which is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 15 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowpark or Ballyboy.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lowpark or Ballyboy.

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. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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

Name

Lowpark or Ballyboy

Area

1,063,691 m² (106.37 ha, 262.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Muckanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muckanagh electoral division: 186 people in 67 households; 97% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Coolaleena, Kilfaughny, Lissatunny, Tonagh

Placenames

Lowpark or Ballyboy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.