# Ballyboy, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish An Bealach Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,326,141 m² (132.61 ha, 327.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 63,246 m² (6.32 ha, 15.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathmore, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/rathmore.md - Barony: Lune - Electoral division: Rathmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39167 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160119 - Centre: latitude 53.636638, longitude -6.879966 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 200991: 684,021 m² (68.4 ha, 169.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200991.md - Parcel 3953487: 174,282 m² (17.43 ha, 43.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953487.md - Parcel 169243: 152,731 m² (15.27 ha, 37.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/169243.md - Parcel 4994581: 78,503 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994581.md - Parcel 169146: 69,358 m² (6.94 ha, 17.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/169146.md - Parcel 160557: 63,246 m² (6.32 ha, 15.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160557.md - Parcel 5639732: 60,338 m² (6.03 ha, 14.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5639732.md - Parcel 4851096: 18,566 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4851096.md - Parcel 5007028: 11,892 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5007028.md - Parcel 157946: 9,819 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/157946.md - Parcel 191148: 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191148.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, Meath; 31 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 14 May 2021, Meath County Council 21931: N/a. Permission. a new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21931/0 - 29 Apr 2021, Meath County Council 21812: N/a. Permission. planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21812/0 - 16 Apr 2021, Meath County Council 21706: N/a. Permission. planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21706/0 - 30 Nov 2020, Meath County Council KA201833: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA201833/0 - 10 Nov 2020, Meath County Council KA201675: N/a. Permission. planning permission to construct new Aircraft Maintenance Facility and Aircraft Storage at Ballyboy Airfield. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA201675/0 - 17 May 2019, Meath County Council KA190616: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. the retention of alterations to previously approved dwelling house and associated site works (Ref 77/83). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA190616/0 - 18 Apr 2019, Meath County Council KA190469: N/a. Retention. the retention of alterations to previously approved dwelling house and associated site works (Ref 77/83). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA190469/0 - 20 Dec 2018, Meath County Council KA181550: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA181550/0 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 Ballyboy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME024-014: Ritual site - holy/saint's stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME024-014----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME024-020----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME024-021----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME024-023----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/ballyboy-160119.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyboy-160119.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyboy-160119.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyboy 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) - Clonymore: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonymore.md - Curleyland and Mill Land: https://everytownland.com/meath/curleyland-and-mill-land.md - Gillstown Great: https://everytownland.com/meath/gillstown-great.md - Mooneystown: https://everytownland.com/meath/mooneystown-161141.md - Mullaghstones: https://everytownland.com/meath/mullaghstones.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathmore.md - Wardstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/wardstown.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/ballyboy-160119 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/ballyboy-160119