Ballaghdorragh

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghdorragh, from 191 m² to 113,228 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Apr 2026Conditional

  for (a) The construction of a new replacement single-storey dwelling house (The dwelling to be replaced is on the same landholding and is to be combined with an attached dwelling to form one single dwelling, which is subject to a separate planning application), (b) construct a detached single-storey domestic garage, (c) form new entrance onto public road, (d) install new wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660171

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  for (a) The restoration and amalgamation of two derelict dwellings to form a single dwelling (b) The construction of a new single storey extension to the south east of the amalgamated dwelling, (c) construct a detached single-storey domestic garage, (d) install new wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660161

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  for RETENTION of a single storey storage shed & canopy area to the rear of existing building and alterations to the existing building elevations. Full Planning PERMISSION is also sought for Change of use of existing community hall to use as a childcare facility, from Monday-Friday 8.00am-6.00pm (the building is to remain in use as a community hall at all other times), together with all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560265

• 14 May 2025N/a

  for the Retention of a single storey storage shed & canopy area to the rear of existing building and alterations to the existing building elevations. Full Planning Permission is sought for Change of use of existing community hall to use as a childcare facility, from Monday-Friday 8.00am-6.00pm (the building is to remain in use as a community hall at all other times), together with all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560238

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 Ballaghdorragh.

Recorded monuments

• CV043-037 Rock scribing - folk art
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope. A piece of rock outcrop in scrub has incised markings forming rectangles and crosses. They were first noted by George V. Du Noyer in 1864 who describes them (1865, 383-4) as covering an area of ‘about 11 feet by nine feet (c. 3.35m x c.2.75m)’ and consisting of small crosses, sometimes within rectangles or kite-shapes, or simple incised lines, some of which he thought might be fresh. Although these might be considered to have been prehistoric in date by Du Noyer and even into the twentieth century by O’Connell (1967, 240-1), they are now known to be fairly recent rock scribing, perhaps even eighteenth century in date. Their precise location was not known until recent research by the Munterconnaught Heritage Society, brought to attention by Pauline Hankin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• Behernagh House, farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to gable-ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to rubble stone walls. Two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes to first floor, one-over-one to ground floor, all with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with simple spoked timber fanlight and double-leaf timber sheeted doors. Remains of rubble stone boundary wall. Farmyard adjoining to north entered from road through forged gate with arched brace in semi-circular profiled rubble-stone piers. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding adjoins gate to north backing onto road.

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with loft in full-height addition of c.1870 to north, set facing into farm courtyard with rear to road. Now disused and substantially overgrown. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods, redbrick chimneystack to ridge over former south gable end, decorative bargeboard to south gable. Roughcast rendered walls. Front elevation overgrown and not seen. Three irregularly placed window openings to rear elevation with one-over-one timber sash windows and stone sills. Margin-paned timber sash window to first floor of south gable over canted timber bay window with slate roof having bipartite window and one-over-one sashes to sides. Rubble stone outbuilding under same roof to north with entrance at ground floor and loft level to the gable.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballaghdorragh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaghdorragh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballaghdorragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Ballaghdorragh

Area

1,284,431 m² (128.44 ha, 317.39 acres)

Civil parish

Munterconnaught, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Munterconnaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,182 people lived in 390 households in the Munterconnaught electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behernagh, Island, Lisnagon (Co. Meath), Rahard (Co. Meath), Ryefield

Placenames

Ballaghdorragh 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.