Ballinrig
Ballinrig is a townland in the civil parish of Laracor, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 43.2 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 6,239 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrig, from 820 m² to 99,170 m² (9.92 ha, 24.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 · 45 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
30 Jan 2026Conditional
File Ref: 212002 - Construction of a detached part single storey, part storey & a half dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Extension of duration, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 2652
19 Dec 2024Conditional
the Development will consist of the installation of a new replacement septic tank and designed percolation area to serve my existing dwelling within the curtilage of my site
Permission · Meath County Council, 2461142
19 Sept 2024Conditional
planning permission for the provision of a new driveway, entrance gate and new access onto public road to serve existing dwelling including all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460760
13 May 2020Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA200619
14 Feb 2019Conditional
alterations and renovations to existing single storey dwelling and the construction of a single extension to the side. The decommissioning of existing septic tank and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. The permanent closeure of existing entrance and the upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to new domestic entrance together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, TA190140
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 Ballinrig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinrig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinrig.
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 Ballinrig, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinrig.
- 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 Ballinrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinrig
- Area
- 432,296 m² (43.23 ha, 106.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Laracor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Laracor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 696 people lived in 213 households in the Laracor electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clondoogan, Clonmahon, Coolderry, Dangan, Umberstown Great
- Placenames
- Ballinrig 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.