Ballair
Townland in the civil parish of Newtown, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 87.8 ha
- 217 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,138 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballair, from 35 m² to 321,271 m² (32.13 ha, 79.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 · 46 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
7 Mar 2026Refused
the development will consist of the construction of a 2-storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660270
28 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a slatted shed to house cattle, manure pit and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard
Permission · Meath County Council, 211450
29 Jun 2021N/a
the construction of a slatted shed to house cattle, manure pit and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard
Permission · Meath County Council, 211258
2 Dec 2020Conditional
permission to erect 4 no. floodlights on 6 meter high poles together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA201839
21 Jun 2018Conditional
proposed works consist of; (a) construct an all weather training pitch (70m x 25m), (b) erect 3m high perimeter wire fence with additional 2m high netting installed above wire fencing to the eastern, southern and western boundaries of the new pitch, (5m high in total) (c) erect 25m long x 5m high skills wall to the northern boundary of the new pitch, (d) erect circa 1.5m high retaining wall to western boundary of the site, (e) together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA180670
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 Ballair.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballair.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballair.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballair.
- 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 Ballair with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballair
- Area
- 877,826 m² (87.78 ha, 216.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Newtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Moynalty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moynalty electoral division: 650 people in 234 households; 79% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballair 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.