Ballaghanna

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghanna, from 953 m² to 263,733 m² (26.37 ha, 65.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballaghanna 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.

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  for (1) Proposed green waste composting facility, to process up to 3,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) of green waste and to compost it using an outdoor windrow system; (2) Demolition of an existing lean-to type shed to facilitate the construction of a new portal frame shed to accommodate storage of green waste compost, with a gross floor area (GFA) of approximately 251 sq. m., and with a maximum height above ground level of 8.46 metres; (3) Demolition of existing walls on existing yard to facilitate proposed development; (4) Change of use of an existing cattle shed to storage of the final product. It is proposed to upgrade the roof of this shed, extending it 3 metres above the existing roof level; (5) Installation of a proposed weighbridge; (6) Construction of a proposed 3m x 4m weighbridge cabin, with a maximum height above ground level of 3 metres; (7) Proposed concrete yard to accommodate the outdoor windrow composting; (8) Proposed gravelled yard for vehicle turning area; (9) Provision of a proposed settlement tank with approximately 8 cubic meters storage capacity; and (10) all ancillary site development works. The proposed development will require a ‘Waste Facility Permit’ which will be sought through a separate application to Cavan County Council.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360130

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 Ballaghanna.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghanna.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghanna.

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 20 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 Ballaghanna.

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 Ballaghanna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Ballaghanna

Area

1,016,808 m² (101.68 ha, 251.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Ballymachugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymachugh electoral division: 838 people in 276 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavancoulter, Crover, Garrysallagh (O'Reilly), Kilbride, Killyfassy, Mountnugent, Racraveen

Placenames

Ballaghanna 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.