Balgeen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilsharvan, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 153.6 ha
- 380 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 103,590 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balgeen, from 15,338 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres) to 1,003,712 m² (100.37 ha, 248.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2022N/a
the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 5.96 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 101,302 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation. Permission is also sought for a wheel wash, site office cabin and port aloo. The site access and haul road is an additional 1.03ha
Permission · Meath County Council, 221715
9 Dec 2022N/a
development will consist of the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 5.96 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 101,302 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation
Permission · Meath County Council, 221614
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 Balgeen.
Recorded monuments
- ME027-044 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- ME027-047 Habitation site
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balgeen.
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 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 Balgeen.
- 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 Balgeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Balgeen
- Area
- 1,536,418 m² (153.64 ha, 379.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilsharvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Julianstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dardistown, Hilltown Great, Hollymount, Kilsharvan, Newhaggard, Raholland, Shallon
- Placenames
- Balgeen 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.