Ballinurd
Townland in the civil parish of Barronstown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile an Uird
- Area
- 88.7 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,200 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinurd, from 277 m² to 500,107 m² (50.01 ha, 123.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballinurd 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
7 Jul 2020Conditional
Retention Permission & Permission for development that will consist of the retention of a single storey extension to the south east of the existing dwellinghouse. Planning permission for a single storey extension to the east of the existing dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and raised percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20483
13 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission for RETENTION of an unauthorised development consisting of a 1.5 storey detached garage with domestic dormer storage area at first floor level and retention of change of use of existing ground floor commerical area of same to be used for cookery demonstrations.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17925
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462
Recorded monuments
- LH006-027 Souterrain
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 Local tradition of a souterrain in field known as 'Lislea'.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinurd.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2925 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballinurd with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinurd · Baile an Uird
- Area
- 887,245 m² (88.72 ha, 219.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barronstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Barronstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Barronstown electoral division: 752 people in 255 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrobin, Barronstown, Carrickrobin, Cortial, Maghereagh, Milltown Bog, Plaster
- Placenames
- Ballinurd 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.