Balloughly

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloughly, from 66 m² to 111,511 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a single storey detached house, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560541

• 2 Sept 2025N/a

  for a single storey detached house, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560521

• 5 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a 2-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460421

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  to renovate existing two storey farmhouse, alterations to interior and elevations, construct two storey extension to rear of existing, demolition of existing outbuildings, new waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360215

• 14 Sept 2023N/a

  to renovate existing two storey farmhouse, alterations to interior and elevations, construct two storey extension to rear of existing, demolition of existing outbuildings, new waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping, and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360186

• 13 Apr 2022N/a

  for change of use of detached garage to pre-school facility with alterations to elevations, provision of play area, carparking, connection to existing services and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22147

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 Balloughly.

Recorded monuments

• CV035-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a broad, low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse identifiable only from NE-E-SE. Bank partly levelled at E. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV035-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 42m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intermediate wide, deep fosse. Outer bank has been levelled and replaced by a modern field wall from SE-S-SSW. Inner bank is quite substantial although it has been partly levelled at N. Original entrance at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Balloughly.

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

Name

Balloughly

Area

1,246,451 m² (124.65 ha, 308 acres)

Civil parish

Enniskeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Enniskeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniskeen electoral division: 482 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birragh, Boherlea (Co. Meath), Carrowreagh, Clonturkan, Corraneary, Moorlagh (Co. Meath), Tullyweel (Co. Meath)

Placenames

Balloughly 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.