Ballygowan

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygowan, from 31 m² to 524,006 m² (52.4 ha, 129.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for the change of use of existing hay shed to milking parlour, new dairy, new slatted shed/storage shed and new grain store on existing farm yard and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with this application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22977

• 24 Nov 2022N/a

  Permission for the change of use of existing hay shed to milking parlour, new dairy, new slatted shed/storage shed and new grain store on existing farm yard and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22912

• 14 Dec 2021Unconditional

  Part 8 - Louth County Council hereby gives notice of it's intention to carry out the following development: Realignment of the N52 National Secondary Route in the townlands of Mandistown, Co Meath, Ballygowan, Bohernamoe, Townparks, Mullanstown and Glebe in County Louth, comprising the construction of a single carriageway road for a distance of 4.5km from a location 150m north of the N33/N2/R171 roundabout junction on the N2 in the townland of Glebe. The N52 realignment will typically consist of a 7.0m wide carriageway with 2 x 0.5m hard strips and a 2.5m wide verge. Where a footway/cycleway is provided, the verge will be widended to 5.0m to accommodate a 3.0m shared footway/cycleway facility on one side of the road. Ghost island junctions will be located at the L-5234 Silverhill Road staggered T junction, the L-5232 Townparks Road staggered T junction and the L-1233 Mullanstown Road T junction north, with the southern arm of the Mullanstown Road stopped up. A new multi-lane roundabout is provided at the junction with the N2 in the townland of Glebe. The L-5234 Silverhill Road is realigned for 500m and a new single lane roundabout is provided at the junction with the existing N52. South of the Silverhill Road roundabout, the existing N52 will be reclassified as a local road and stopped up south of Burley Bridge. Localised realignment of the Silverhill Road, Townparks Road and Mullanstown Road (north) is required to connect them to the proposed N52 Ardee Bypass. Two new bridge crossings, each with an approximate span of 30m are provided at the River Dee and River Garra, with monir watercourses cuverted under the proposed road. The remaining works will consist of earthworks, pavement works, attenuation features, the connecton of road/land drainage outfalls ot the new sustainable urban drainage system (SuDS) network, completion of landscaping and accommodation works, implementation of environment measures and all other ancillary works. Full plans and particulars are available at www.louthcoco.ie

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211482

• 1 Feb 2021N/a

  Permission for the change of use of existing hay shed to milking parlour, new diary, new slatted shed/storage shed on existing farm yard and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2198

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 Ballygowan.

Recorded monuments

• LH017-001 Enclosure
  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 revision: 23 December 2010 Situated on small, natural ridge, just N of River Dee. Rectangular area (max. dims. 52m WSW-ENE, 32m NNW-SSE) with rounded corners enclosed from S-W-N-E by earthen bank (Wth 6m, H 0.3m), from E-S by steep scarp. Aerial photograph (GB91.DC.17) shows cropmark of a large enclosure defined by two incomplete fosses. Traces of a third possible fosse are visible on the southern side of the enclosure. The cropmark enclosure surrounds the small rectilinear enclosure descibed above.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2823 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ballygowan · Baile Mhic Gabhann

Area

1,266,746 m² (126.67 ha, 313.02 acres)

Civil parish

Shanlis, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Ardee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boharnamoe, Curraghbeg, Mandistown (Co. Meath), Shanlis, Townparks

Placenames

Ballygowan 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.