# Ballyhack, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ratoath, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile Hac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,382,818 m² (138.28 ha, 341.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 82,586 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ratoath, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/ratoath.md - Barony: Ratoath - Electoral division: Ratoath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 11,894 people lived in 3,639 households in the Ratoath electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 3% 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/37967 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160128 - Centre: latitude 53.480519, longitude -6.451904 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhack, from 386 m² to 390,322 m² (39.03 ha, 96.45 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 161580: 390,322 m² (39.03 ha, 96.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161580.md - Parcel 215711: 312,969 m² (31.3 ha, 77.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215711.md - Parcel 190235: 217,906 m² (21.79 ha, 53.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/190235.md - Parcel 155202: 115,142 m² (11.51 ha, 28.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155202.md - Parcel 201952: 85,859 m² (8.59 ha, 21.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201952.md - Parcel 211134: 82,809 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211134.md - Parcel 147961: 82,586 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147961.md - Parcel 215308: 80,302 m² (8.03 ha, 19.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215308.md - Parcel 143013: 4,157 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/143013.md - Parcel 183275: 3,850 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/183275.md - Parcel 5379759: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379759.md - Parcel 213832: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/213832.md - Parcel 5357852: 386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5357852.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; 19 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 - C5 D1 - Tourism (Tourism and related): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 - O1 WL - White Lands (Strategic reserve, White land): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 2 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Aug 2025, Meath County Council 2560881: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. The development will consist of a dwelling and Garage with a suitable wastewater treatment unit and associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560881/0 - 13 Aug 2025, Meath County Council 2560848: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the development will consist of a dwelling and Garage with a suitable wastewater treatment unit and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560848/0 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 Ballyhack. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhack. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhack. ## 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 Ballyhack, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhack. - 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/ballyhack-160128.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyhack-160128.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyhack-160128.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhack 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) - Ballybin: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballybin-160116.md - Glascarn: https://everytownland.com/meath/glascarn.md - Legagunnia: https://everytownland.com/meath/legagunnia.md - Loughlinstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/loughlinstown-161070.md - Mullinam: https://everytownland.com/meath/mullinam.md - Paddock: https://everytownland.com/meath/paddock.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/ballyhack-160128 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/ballyhack-160128