Ballynahaia
Townland in the civil parish of Drumgoon, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 47.7 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 8,063 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahaia, from 742 m² to 63,605 m² (6.36 ha, 15.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynahaia 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Apr 2026N/a
for the following as constructed alterations to previously approved dwelling house (planning ref no 8616413); (1) Conversion of attached domestic garage to habitable accommodation (2) A single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, and (3) A detached steel framed building to the rear of the property, used for equestrian use comprising of stables & ancillary storage areas, and (4) Revised site entrance location onto public road
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660158
30 Jun 2024Conditional
for a Single Storey Extension to Rear/Side of Existing Single Storey Dwelling House, provision of new vehicular entrance from public road to replace existing entrance, provision of entrance walls and piers, replacement of existing septic tank and soakaway with a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460295
12 Jun 2024N/a
for a Single Storey Extension to Rear/Side of Existing Single Storey Dwelling House, provision of new vehicular entrance from public road to replace existing entrance, provision of entrance walls and piers, replacement of existing septic tank and soakaway with a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460263
22 Sept 2021Conditional
of revised ground floor plan and associated elevational changes to front and side of existing dwelling from that previously granted under planning reference 19/337
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21591
3 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling with detached garage, install a waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, gates and piers together with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21331
6 Sept 2019Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling with detached garage, install a waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, gates and piers together with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19337
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynahaia.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynahaia.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynahaia.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynahaia.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynahaia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynahaia
- Area
- 476,783 m² (47.68 ha, 117.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumgoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Cootehill Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cootehill Rural electoral division: 1,138 people in 412 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Benwilt, Drumrooghill, Killaquill, Mayo, Tullybrick, Tullyunshin
- Placenames
- Ballynahaia 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.