Ballytrust
Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan; in Irish Béal Átha Trost
- Area
- 108.8 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 5,407 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytrust, from 78 m² to 145,048 m² (14.5 ha, 35.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Ballytrust 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
25 Jun 2026Conditional
for a two-storey style dwelling, domestic garage, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers, and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660351
23 Aug 2024Conditional
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460395
14 Aug 2024N/a
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460379
1 Feb 2023Conditional
to retain front porch
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2328
3 Jul 2020Conditional
to retain (1) elevation and floor plan changes to existing dormer type bungalow, (2) single storey sunroom to the side of existing dormer type bungalow, (3) single storey domestic garage and (4) revised site boundaries from all that previously granted under planning reference No. 99/813 and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20267
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 Ballytrust.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballytrust.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballytrust.
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 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballytrust.
- 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 Ballytrust with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Ballytrust · Béal Átha Trost
- Area
- 1,087,755 m² (108.78 ha, 268.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintemple electoral division: 431 people in 147 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrust Lower, Corduff, Corr, Drumhawragh, Legwee, Oghill
- Placenames
- Ballytrust 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.