Ballynahattin

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahattin, from 139 m² to 150,499 m² (15.05 ha, 37.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism and Leisure (Tourism and related)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 09/879 - 10 Year Permission for development consisting of site development works associated with a business park on lands zoned for employment mixed use. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 20122

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 Ballynahattin.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-134001 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). Described as 'a cist-cairn type monument centred on a burial pit and two low kerb walls up to 5m long. Adjacent to the central pit was a possible stake-built structure and a pit. There was also a large possible quarry pit. Focused on the main burial were two concentric circles of thirteen associated burials/graves plus two 'boulder burials'. The inner cist 'circle' was approximately 16-20m in diameter, with at least ten stone-lined cist depositions, plus one boulder burial. The outer circle consisted of placed pottery vessels in unlined pits. Three placements were recovered, each one 'paired' with an 'inner ring' cist on an alignment originating from the central burial. A 'boulder burial' was placed on/near the outer ring. The outer ring defining the cist-cairn monument had a diameter of c. 42m. The two boulder burials were 19m apart and aligned exactly east-west (the larger to the east). The eastern (outer ring) 'boulder burial' had a granite packing stone with a flat axe motif carved into it. Finds consisted of loose cremated bone from eight burials (at least one cist contained multiple burials), nine complete pottery vessels, one broken but mostly complete encrusted urn, an animal shaped like a seal carved into a granite stone 1.5m long, a large stone with notch/cup marks in it, a smaller stone with deep 'cup' cuts in it, a hone stone, a 'sword pommel'-shaped copper alloy piece, encircled with stitching holes, filled with an iron-like substance, a copper alloy pin with a twisted faience coating and twelve pieces of struck or worked flint. A probably associated cremation/pyre pit produced one copper alloy object.' Situated c. 50m to the N of three barrows (LH004-134002-, LH004-134003- and LH004-134004-). (Bayley 2006, 340-1; Bayley 2005, 10) References: Bayley, D. 2005 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 127: Carn More 5 chainage 24.810-25.100 NGR: 304912 / 310860, Post-excavation assessment and project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Bayley, D. 2006 Site 127, Carn More 5, Faughart Bronze Age cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340-1 (No. 1275). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-134002 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). A mound (diam. 26m) with an external turf bank. No evidence for a ditch. A disturbed, stone-lined burial chamber was discovered in the centre. Only the northern half survived as the southern half was truncated by the Dublin-Belfast railway embankment quarry. Finds consisted of scattered cremated bone, a few sherds of encrusted urn, a copper alloy pin, four small copper alloy ornaments or fastenings and three pieces of struck/worked flint. Situated c. 50m to the S of a burial cairn (LH004-134001-) and c. 50m to the E of two ring barrows (LH004-134003- and LH004-134004-). (Bayley 2006, 340-1; Bayley 2005, 10) References: Bayley, D. 2005 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 127: Carn More 5 chainage 24.810-25.100 NGR: 304912 / 310860, Post-excavation assessment and project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Bayley, D. 2006 Site 127, Carn More 5, Faughart Bronze Age cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340-1 (No. 1275). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-134003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). One of two small ring-barrows (see also LH004-134004-), (ext. diam. 5-6m; int. diam. 3.5m), both contained small central pits, possibly containing cremations. (Bayley 2006, 340-1; Bayley 2005, 10) References: Bayley, D. 2005 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 127: Carn More 5 chainage 24.810-25.100 NGR: 304912 / 310860, Post-excavation assessment and project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Bayley, D. 2006 Site 127, Carn More 5, Faughart Bronze Age cemetery. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340-1 (No. 1275). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-134004 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0873). One of two small ring-barrows (see also LH004-134003-), (ext. diam. 5-6m; int. diam. 4m), both contained small central pits, possibly containing cremations. (Bayley 2006, 340-1; Bayley 2005, 10) References: Bayley, D. 2005 M1 Dundalk Western by-pass site 127: Carn More 5 chainage 24.810-25.100 NGR: 304912 / 310860, Post-excavation assessment and project design on behalf of Louth County Council and the National Roads Authority Licence. Unpublished Report, DAHG 03E0873, Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Bayley, D. 2006 Site 127, Carn More 5, Faughart Bronze Age cemetery in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340-1 (No. 1275). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-141 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Excavated as part of the Dundalk Western by-pass project (Excavation Licence No. 03E0872). A number of pits and features containing charcoal-rich material with minute fragments of charred hazelnuts were uncovered. The excavator suggested that these may be prehistoric in nature. (Halpin 2006, 340) Reference: Halpin, B. 2006 Carn More, Pits and associated features. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 340 (No. 1274). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH007-013 Ringfort - rath
  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 Enclosure (max. diam. c. 43m) showing as a circular cropmark with semi-circular cropmark on SE representing a crescentic annexe (dims. c. 60m NE-SW, c. 26m NW-SE). (CUCAP, BGL 43)

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_3026 (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 Ballynahattin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ballynahattin · Baile na hAitinne

Area

429,414 m² (42.94 ha, 106.11 acres)

Civil parish

Dundalk, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Dundalk Rural, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Annies, Carn Beg, Dowdallshill, Glebe, Redcow

Placenames

Ballynahattin 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.