# Ballin, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathmolyon, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 926,165 m² (92.62 ha, 228.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 48,366 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathmolyon, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/rathmolyon.md - Barony: Moyfenrath Lower - Electoral division: Rathmolyon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39135 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160089 - Centre: latitude 53.462577, longitude -6.902777 (WGS 84) ## 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 152729: 179,400 m² (17.94 ha, 44.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152729.md - Parcel 200691: 143,506 m² (14.35 ha, 35.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200691.md - Parcel 200681: 120,177 m² (12.02 ha, 29.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200681.md - Parcel 200695: 117,185 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200695.md - Parcel 152734: 67,228 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152734.md - Parcel 200692: 66,735 m² (6.67 ha, 16.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200692.md - Parcel 152730: 57,745 m² (5.77 ha, 14.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152730.md - Parcel 152733: 54,046 m² (5.4 ha, 13.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152733.md - Parcel 200693: 42,686 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200693.md - Parcel 147754: 33,766 m² (3.38 ha, 8.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147754.md - Parcel 152731: 24,669 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152731.md - Parcel 5023586: 4,256 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5023586.md - Parcel 150345: 4,110 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150345.md - Parcel 152543: 3,896 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152543.md - Parcel 4857590: 3,150 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4857590.md - Parcel 5658920: 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5658920.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; 28 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) 1 application, newest first. - 17 Oct 2019, Meath County Council TA191370: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/TA191370/0 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 Ballin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballin. ## 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 Ballin, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2489, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2489.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/ballin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyclare: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyclare.md - Clonguiffin: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonguiffin.md - Clonmowley: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonmowley.md - Cullentry: https://everytownland.com/meath/cullentry.md - Longwood: https://everytownland.com/meath/longwood.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/ballin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/ballin