Balbrigh

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balbrigh, from 272 m² to 737,047 m² (73.7 ha, 182.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Sept 2019N/a

  construction of a new detached residential dwelling with domestic garage, roof mounted solar heating panels, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and new site entrance. The application will include for landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, NA191176

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 Balbrigh.

Recorded monuments

• ME031-017 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular area defined by earthen bank (diam. 70m) with outer modern bank except at E where there is a drain. Probably a landscape feature.

• ME031-071001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A possible ring-ditch (diam. c. 13.4m) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. Two other ring-ditches (ME031-071002-, ME031-071003-) are visible on the same photograph to the east (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (12/07/2013) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 September 2015

• ME031-071002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. A second possible ring-ditch (ME031-071001-) is visible to the west and a third (ME031-071003-) to the east (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (12/07/2013) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 September 2015

• ME031-071003 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A ring-ditch (diam. c. 13.7m) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. Two other ring-ditches (ME031-071001-, ME031-071002-) are visible on the same photograph to the west (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (12/07/2013) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 September 2015

Architectural heritage

• Balbrigh Bridge, bridge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over river, dated 1902 and 1904, with pair of plaques inscribed: "DUNDERRY DRAINAGE 1902" and "BALBRIGH BRIDGE 1904".

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 low, 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 Balbrigh.

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 Balbrigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Balbrigh

Area

1,476,940 m² (147.69 ha, 364.96 acres)

Civil parish

Bective, and its townlands

Barony

Navan Upper

Electoral division

Bective, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bective electoral division: 1,177 people in 387 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balbradagh, Bective, Cloncullen, Dunganny, Dunlough, Rataine

Placenames

Balbrigh 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.