Ballany
Ballany is a townland in the civil parish of Moylagh, barony of Fore, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Eanaigh.
- Area
- 182 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 5,849 m² (0.58 ha, 1.45 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballany, from 1,982 m² to 579,737 m² (57.97 ha, 143.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 53 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
6 Aug 2026N/a
the development will consist of the following: (1) to construct a 2 storey type dwelling house and detached domestic garage (2) to install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area (3) All other ancillary site development works. The development will supersede the previously granted planning under planning permission Ref 21637
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660995
5 Feb 2026Conditional
1) Construct an extension for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage, administration and welfare facilities to the existing building on site, and 2) all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660139
30 Jan 2026Conditional
1) Changes to internal layout and external elevations which include window & door locations, cladding to ground level, canopy locations and 2) all associated site works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2660121
23 Jul 2024Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION KA190653 - (1) retention of existing buildings on the subject site used for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage, administration and welfare facilities, (2) Permission for a new building for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage, administration and welfare facilities, (3) permission for a proprietary effluent treatment system & percolation area, and (4) all associated site services
Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 24315
25 Jun 2021Conditional
the development will consist of (a) construction of a two-storey dwelling, (b) construction of a detached domestic garage & store, (c) installation of an effluent treatment system & percolation area, (d) construction of a new entrance onto public road & (e) all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211248
17 Jun 2021N/a
the development will consist of (a) construction of a two-storey dwelling, (b) construction of a detached domestic garage & store, (c) installation of an effluent treatment system & percolation area, (d) construction of a new entrance onto public road & (e) all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211172
6 Apr 2021Conditional
a 2 storey house, totalling 248m2, vehicle entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21637
9 Mar 2021Conditional
1) Construction of a two storey office extension to the western elevation of the building granted permission in Planning Application Reference No. KA/190653, 2) Re-position and add additional loading bay doors, 3) Move the building 10m to the west on the site layout and 4) All associated site services
Permission · Meath County Council, 21450
30 Dec 2019Conditional
a replacement dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services. The existing dwelling house on the site is to be demolished.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191830
6 Dec 2019N/a
a replacement dwelling house, proprietry effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191654
8 Nov 2019Conditional
(1) retention of alterations and amendments made to elevations and floor plan layouts including conversion of attic area to habitable rooms (2) retention of revised site layout from that previously granted under planning ref. no. KA/171112
Retention · Meath County Council, KA191490
24 May 2019Conditional
(1) retention of existing buildings on the subject site used for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage, administration and welfare facilities, (2) Permission for a new building for the purposes of light manufacturing, storage, administration and welfare facilities, (3) permission for a proprietry effluent treatment system & pecolation area, and (4) all associated site services.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA190653
22 Sept 2017Conditional
the development consists of to construct (1) single storey type dwelling (2) domestic garage (3) to construct new domestic site entrance (4) proprietary waste water treatment unit (5) complete all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171112
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
- Special Area of Conservation: White Lough, Ben Loughs and Lough Doo SAC 001810
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: White Lough, Ben Loughs And Lough Doo 001810
Recorded monuments
- ME014-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a rise on a fairly low-lying undulating landscape with Carrick Lough, a small lake (diam. c. 100m) just 40m to the SW. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 47m NW-SE; 43m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank and an outer fosse that morphs into a berm SW-N-E. The entrance is at SE. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 November 2019
- ME014-034 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a short surviving section of a NW-SE esker ridge. A subrectangular grass-covered enclosure (dims c. 36m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks with many gaps is visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 16/03/2021) and Apple Maps. It has a raised circular feature (diam. c. 10m) at its centre, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (16/03/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballany.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballany, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballany.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballany · Baile Eanaigh
- Area
- 1,820,034 m² (182 ha, 449.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moylagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Moylagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 423 people lived in 166 households in the Moylagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh, Ballinlough, Ben (Co. Westmeath), Clonnageeragh (Co. Westmeath), Glenaward, Greenan, Martinstown (Co. Westmeath), Murrens
- Placenames
- Ballany 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.