Ballestran

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballestran, from 3,009 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) to 517,679 m² (51.77 ha, 127.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  retention for reuse of existing agricultural buildings to temporary accommodation for seasonal work. Change of use of existing agricultural building to seasonal farm produce shop. Retention of Porta-cabins for temporary accommodation for seasonal work. Retention of buildings for temporary accommodation and associated use for seasonal work. Retention of recycling building and associated storage area. Retention of wastewater treatment works with proposed upgraded percolation area & all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460111

• 18 Jul 2023Conditional

  the alteration development works will consist of the importation of 48,150 tonnes of inert soil and stones to create the correct levels for an 8 furlong horse training gallop as already authorised, the provision of a wheel wash during the works and all associated site works. A three-year construction period is required and all works will use the authorised entrance and site works as authorised under planning permission 22/18

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23719

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 Ballestran.

Recorded monuments

• ME034-015 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate a possible field system (ME034-016----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 31 October 2013

• ME034-016 Field system
  Description

  A possible field system adjacent to a circular enclosure (ME034-016----) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-017 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch (int. diam. c. 7m) defined by a single continuous ditch feature is visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (Bing 2013). (pers. comm. T. Condit) Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-018 Field system
  Description

  A series of linear crop marks on an aerial photograph suggesting a field system within the same field as possible ring-ditch (ME034-017----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-019 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly square-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 47m NNW-SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW) defined by a single fosse feature with rounded corners is visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (Bing 2013). Its E side is parallel with a filed bank immediately to its E. (pers. comm. T. Condit) Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-020 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 13m) defined by a single continuous ditch feature is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (Bing 2013). It is situated close to ring-ditch ME034-017---- and within field containing field system (ME034-018----). (pers. comm. T. Condit) Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballestran.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballestran, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballestran.

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.

No address of the register names Ballestran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ballestran

Area

522,289 m² (52.23 ha, 129.06 acres)

Civil parish

Stamullin, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Stamullin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,471 people lived in 1,655 households in the Stamullin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clinstown, Mullaghteelin, Stadalt

Placenames

Ballestran 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.