Ballymageragh
Townland in the civil parish of Cappoge, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Mhic Fhiachrach
- Area
- 71.2 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 5,358 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymageragh, from 1,167 m² to 267,158 m² (26.72 ha, 66.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballymageragh 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
17 Apr 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a solar PV development and Battery Energy Storage System facility (‘BESS’) on a ca. 167ha site consisting of: Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site on ground mounted frames, with string inverters attached to selected ground mounted frames; 12 No. transformer units; The battery energy storage compound consisting of 368 No. BESS modules; 1 No. transformer unit; 8 No. Power Electronic Compact Twin Skids; 1 No. Control Unit (ca. 12m2); 2m high landscaping berm and perimeter security fencing (2.4m high); Electrical and communications cabling within private lands and within the L2254, R170 and R211/R132 public roads; Pole-mounted security cameras; Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; 3 No. temporary construction compounds; 3 No. clear span bridges; Internal access tracks; and, All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. *Significant Further Information Received on 26/11/2025*
Permission · Louth County Council, 2560223
11 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for the development which will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling, garage/outhouse, a waste water treatment system and all associated siteworks. *Significant Further Information Received 25/06/2025 & Revised notices received on 02/07/2025*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560134
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 Ballymageragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymageragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymageragh.
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 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 Ballymageragh.
- 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 Ballymageragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymageragh · Baile Mhic Fhiachrach
- Area
- 712,360 m² (71.24 ha, 176.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cappoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromin electoral division: 679 people in 218 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cangy, Cappoge, Coneyburrow, Mooremount, Ravel
- Placenames
- Ballymageragh 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.