Ballagan
Ballagan is a townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Baile Lagáin.
- Area
- 194.1 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 173
- registered freehold, median 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
173 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagan, from 32 m² to 532,605 m² (53.26 ha, 131.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballagan 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
4 Aug 2026N/a
Outline permission for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660537
11 Dec 2025Conditional
Retention and Permission: Retention of elevational changes and internal alterations to an existing dwelling house. Permission for a new rear extension, effluent treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 25178
2 Sept 2025Conditional
The development consists of one dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 25/11/2025*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560544
16 Jan 2025Conditional
Permission for alterations and extension to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560016
10 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. This application includes a Natura Impact Statement. *Significant Further Information Received on the 11/12/2024 - FI includes a Natura Impact Statement - Revised Notices Received on 07/01/2025*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 24151
2 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for the upgrading of existing septic tank systems to two existing dwelling houses with new effluent treatment systems and percolation areas and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460504
13 Aug 2024N/a
Development to comprise new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 24135
25 Jun 2024Conditional
PERMISSION FOR HOME OFFICE / PLAY ROOM TO THE REAR GARDEN OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND RETENTION OF EXISTING GARDEN SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460350
29 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission for a new dwellinghouse, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.**Significant further information received on 26.10.22 includes a revised site layout including relocation of proposed dwelling house on site, revised internal layout and elevational changes to proposed dwelling house and all associated site works.**
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22523
8 Jun 2022N/a
Permission for a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22462
31 May 2022Refused
Retention permission for the change of use of dwelling house to short term letting. Retention permission is also required for an existing single storey rear extension and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22439
21 Dec 2021Conditional
permission for a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site development works **Significant Further Information received on 06/05/2022**
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211516
16 Mar 2020Conditional
Permission for the demolition of existing sunroom to side of existing dwelling house and construction of new extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information submitted 01/07/20 which provided for an increase in site size*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20193
10 May 2019Conditional
Permission for extension to side of existing dwelling house to include attached shed/store and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19352
10 May 2019Conditional
Permission for a new storey and a half dwelling house, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 30/09/2019*.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19356
5 Apr 2018Conditional
RETENTION permission and PERMISSION for development will consist of: 1) Retention of alterations to original dwelling house to include rear extension, change of use of original attached domestic garage to living accommodation, first floor attic conversion, and domestic garage. 2) Permission for extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house and associated site development works.
Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 18246
3 May 2017Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION: Permission for site development works for 6 no. serviced residential sites.
Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17320
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Carlingford Shore SAC 002306
- Special Protection Area: Carlingford Lough SPA 004078
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlingford Lough 000452
Recorded monuments
- LH009-009 Mound
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated at the tip of Ballagan Point c. 35m from the present shoreline. An irregularly-shaped mound (L 15m NW-SE, Wth 11.5m NE-SW, H 1.4m) aligned NW-SE, constructed of earth and stone, with some disturbance visible on surface. 'Souterrain ware' of undecorated type was recovered from the surface disturbance in 1985.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballagan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballagan, 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 Ballagan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballagan, Greenore5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballagan · Baile Lagáin
- Area
- 1,940,642 m² (194.06 ha, 479.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Greenore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,250 people lived in 430 households in the Greenore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamony (Murphy), Muchgrange, Mullabane, Whitestown
- Placenames
- Ballagan 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.