Ballyboy

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) to 684,021 m² (68.4 ha, 169.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 May 2021N/a

  a new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21931

• 29 Apr 2021N/a

  planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21812

• 16 Apr 2021N/a

  planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21706

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  development will consist of; (a) refurbishment / renovation of existing cottage, (b) construct a proposed single-storey extension to existing cottage, (c) construct detached domestic garage, (d) Relocation of existing entrance to site, (e) install waste water treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201833

• 10 Nov 2020N/a

  planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage at Ballyboy Airfield

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA201675

• 17 May 2019Conditional

  the retention of alterations to previously approved dwelling house and associated site works (Ref 77/83)

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190616

• 18 Apr 2019N/a

  the retention of alterations to previously approved dwelling house and associated site works (Ref 77/83)

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA190469

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  to extend 2no light aircraft hangars and construct a new paved runway adjacent existing grass runway. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA181550

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 Ballyboy.

Recorded monuments

• ME024-014 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. This is a glacial erratic with a natural hole at its base on the S side, which is reputed to have been made by St. Laurence O’Toole’s hands. It had originally been at Rathmore castle (ME024-018001-) but it was moved to a corner of a field near the road (R164) from Athboy to Kells. (O’Reilly 1955, 15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 April 2019 O’Reilly, M. 1955 Rathmore. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 1, No. 1, 14-17.

• ME024-020 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Located NE of the Hill of Ward on a small esker. This was identified on LiDAR coverage (Davis 2011, 39), and is described as a mound (diam. 35m; H 1.5m) which is surrounded by shallow inner ditch and outer bank. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 29 February 2012

• ME024-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified on Lidar (Davies, S. 2011,39-40). This circular,ditched enclosure is bisected by a field boundary running E-N/E-WSW (diam. 70m). It has a slighly domed interior. It is surrounded by a ditch which is best preserved in the S (0.60m. Compiled by Geraldine Stout Upload date: 29/02/2012

• ME024-023 Burnt mound
  Description

  Located in a fairly level landscape, it was first identified and recorded by Melanie McQuade. An area of broken and burnt stone (dims c. 10m x c. 8m) was visible at the E corner of a ploughed and planted field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballyboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ballyboy · An Bealach Buí

Area

1,326,141 m² (132.61 ha, 327.7 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,095 people in 346 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonymore, Curleyland and Mill Land, Gillstown Great, Mooneystown, Mullaghstones, Rathmore, Wardstown

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyboy 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.