Ballin
Ballin is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmolyon, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 92.6 ha
- 229 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 48,366 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballin, from 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 179,400 m² (17.94 ha, 44.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 · 28 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
17 Oct 2019Conditional
the construction of two-storey type dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway and driveway, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development work. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA191370
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 Ballin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballin.
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 Ballin, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2489 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballin
- Area
- 926,165 m² (92.62 ha, 228.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmolyon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathmolyon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,660 people lived in 534 households in the Rathmolyon electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyclare, Clonguiffin, Clonmowley, Cullentry, Longwood
- Placenames
- Ballin 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.