Ballynamaghery
Townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile na Machaire
- Area
- 75.2 ha
- 186 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 4,330 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynamaghery, from 86 m² to 48,787 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballynamaghery 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
24 Sept 2025Conditional
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560600
2 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission - Ref. No. 21674 - for a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23453
25 Sept 2023Refused
Permission for a dwellinghouse, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360373
17 Jul 2023N/a
Permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23333
6 Apr 2023Refused
Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23174
14 Apr 2022Refused
permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22303
6 Aug 2021Refused
Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21987
31 May 2021Conditional
Outline permission for development of new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21674
30 Apr 2021Refused
Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21506
26 Apr 2018Conditional
The development will consist of: Retention of an existing log cabin/outbuilding and associate site development works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18315
13 Mar 2017Conditional
Permission for development to consist of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17180
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 Ballynamaghery.
Recorded monuments
- LH008-114 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.BZ.11) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse; two fosses extending westwards from the enclosure suggest an associated field system. It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 26 May 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynamaghery.
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 5 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 Ballynamaghery.
- 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 Ballynamaghery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynamaghery · Baile na Machaire
- Area
- 752,267 m² (75.23 ha, 185.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathcor electoral division: 1,484 people in 467 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardtully Beg, Ballug, Galtrimsland, Rathcor, Templetown
- Placenames
- Ballynamaghery 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.