# Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Munterconnaught, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,284,431 m² (128.44 ha, 317.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,522 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Munterconnaught, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/munterconnaught.md - Barony: Castlerahan - Electoral division: Munterconnaught, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4234 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20120 - Centre: latitude 53.776752, longitude -7.057777 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghdorragh, from 191 m² to 113,228 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 462293: 113,228 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/462293.md - Parcel 448712: 111,744 m² (11.17 ha, 27.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448712.md - Parcel 485325: 108,362 m² (10.84 ha, 26.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485325.md - Parcel 442911: 107,925 m² (10.79 ha, 26.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442911.md - Parcel 438795: 103,152 m² (10.32 ha, 25.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438795.md - Parcel 487210: 99,073 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487210.md - Parcel 435693: 69,298 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435693.md - Parcel 473824: 69,266 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473824.md - Parcel 483899: 68,608 m² (6.86 ha, 16.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483899.md - Parcel 467851: 55,668 m² (5.57 ha, 13.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467851.md - Parcel 484205: 47,588 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/484205.md - Parcel 463171: 46,327 m² (4.63 ha, 11.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/463171.md - Parcel 481565: 44,969 m² (4.5 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481565.md - Parcel 454823: 41,935 m² (4.19 ha, 10.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454823.md - Parcel 440380: 41,150 m² (4.12 ha, 10.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/440380.md - Parcel 441677: 35,115 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/441677.md - Parcel 451864: 26,796 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/451864.md - Parcel 2995640: 15,776 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995640.md - Parcel 470145: 15,452 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/470145.md - Parcel 492142: 4,957 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/492142.md - Parcel 5665007: 4,711 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665007.md - Parcel 487982: 4,334 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487982.md - Parcel 478084: 4,215 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478084.md - Parcel 5079615: 4,114 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5079615.md - Parcel 5290527: 3,936 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5290527.md - Parcel 478371: 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478371.md - Parcel 2685211: 3,837 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685211.md - Parcel 5084930: 3,603 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5084930.md - Parcel 5665037: 3,374 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665037.md - Parcel 2713288: 3,089 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2713288.md - Parcel 2685210: 3,073 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685210.md - Parcel 481420: 2,789 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481420.md - Parcel 3183968: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3183968.md - Parcel 439960: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/439960.md - Parcel 445495: 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445495.md - Parcel 489313: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/489313.md - Parcel 486535: 1,332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/486535.md - Parcel 480691: 1,257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/480691.md - Parcel 442724: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/442724.md - Parcel 4894727: 413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4894727.md - Parcel 5084929: 382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5084929.md - Parcel 5079614: 191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5079614.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 10 Apr 2026, Cavan County Council 2660171: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660171/0 - 8 Apr 2026, Cavan County Council 2660161: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660161/0 - 28 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560265: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560265/0 - 14 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560238: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560238/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballaghdorragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV043-037: Rock scribing - folk art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV043-037----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Behernagh House, farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40404310, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40404310. 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, registry number 40404311, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40404311. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballaghdorragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballaghdorragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballaghdorragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballaghdorragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Behernagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/behernagh.md - Island: https://everytownland.com/cavan/island.md - Lisnagon (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/lisnagon.md - Rahard (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/rahard.md - Ryefield: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ryefield.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballaghdorragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/ballaghdorragh