# Ballaghtalion, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kildalkey, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Bealach Tallúin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,701,862 m² (170.19 ha, 420.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,238 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kildalkey, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/kildalkey.md - Barony: Lune - Electoral division: Kildalkey, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,363 people lived in 435 households in the Kildalkey electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39071 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160079 - Centre: latitude 53.559413, longitude -6.882958 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghtalion, from 940 m² to 1,034,066 m² (103.41 ha, 255.52 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 214310: 1,034,066 m² (103.41 ha, 255.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/214310.md - Parcel 4954902: 392,568 m² (39.26 ha, 97.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4954902.md - Parcel 204791: 172,622 m² (17.26 ha, 42.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/204791.md - Parcel 215914: 77,113 m² (7.71 ha, 19.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215914.md - Parcel 161337: 5,131 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161337.md - Parcel 146823: 3,912 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146823.md - Parcel 215338: 2,996 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215338.md - Parcel 202425: 2,238 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/202425.md - Parcel 144938: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/144938.md - Parcel 188510: 1,594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/188510.md - Parcel 152655: 1,382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/152655.md - Parcel 160071: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/160071.md - Parcel 142789: 1,208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/142789.md - Parcel 144644: 1,080 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/144644.md - Parcel 158387: 940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/158387.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 43 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2026, Meath County Council 2660689: Conditional. Permission. The development will consist of the construction of a grain handling tower and grain mixing unit and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660689/0 - 19 Feb 2026, Meath County Council 2660192: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. erection of a proposed two bedroom, one and half storey dormer cottage dwelling with a new connection to existing public water mains, proprietary secondary effluent treatment system and polishing area along with the modification of the existing adjoining site entrance walls and piers forming an enlarged shared recessed entrance to the road and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660192/0 - 20 Mar 2025, Meath County Council 2560279: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the development will consist of demolition of existing garage and the construction of new garage and upgrade existing waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560279/0 - 27 Sept 2024, Meath County Council 2460790: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the development will consist of the construction of a dwelling, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460790/0 - 17 Dec 2021, Meath County Council 212372: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a grain loading tower, weighbridge and all associated site works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/212372/0 - 27 Oct 2021, Meath County Council 212078: Conditional. Permission. a grain storage shed and ESB sub-station and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/212078/0 - 15 Jun 2018, Meath County Council TA180646: Conditional. Permission. raising the roof height of the shed sited at the farmyard and used for the preparation and sale of animal grain feed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/TA180646/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballaghtalion. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME036-083001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME036-083001-. Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dim c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a single slight fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/ 2018; 14/07/2018). There is a large pit inside the perimeter at E which the fosse extends to enclose. The enclosure is entangled with the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (ME036-083002-), the SE angle of which is at the centre of this feature. They were first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019 - ME036-083002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME036-083002-. Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dim c. 25m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined by slight fosse or ditch features is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2018). It is entangled with the subcircular enclosure (ME036-083001-) and its SE angle is at the centre of the circular enclosure. They were first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghtalion. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballaghtalion, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2528, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2528.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballaghtalion.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballaghtalion.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballaghtalion.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballaghtalion with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonylogan: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonylogan.md - Moat Town: https://everytownland.com/meath/moat-town.md - Moyrath: https://everytownland.com/meath/moyrath.md - Portanab: https://everytownland.com/meath/portanab.md - Pubblestown: https://everytownland.com/meath/pubblestown.md - Woodtown (Abbott): https://everytownland.com/meath/woodtown-abbott.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballaghtalion - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/ballaghtalion