Ballyhist

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhist, from 526 m² to 236,172 m² (23.62 ha, 58.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 70 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  development to construct a storey and a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage, install waste water treatment system and percolation area and form new entrance from the public road, together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200574

• 23 Nov 2018N/a

  permission to complete partially constructed storey and a half dwelling house granted under planning permission ref no KA/40029, permission to retain its orientation on site and permission to construct a conservatory extension, domestic garage, new entrance and install proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation areas on site at Ballyhist, Carnaross, Kells.

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181404

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 Ballyhist.

Recorded monuments

• ME010-033 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Located at the E end of a ridge with rock outcrop. The motte is a circular, grass-covered and flat-topped mound (diam. of top 25m E-W; 22m N-S; dim. of base 39m E-W) defined by scarps (at W: H. 1.5m) that meld into the natural slope (at E: H 5m plus) N-E-S, with a crescent-shaped bailey (dims 48m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by scarps or a bank (at W: Wth ov base 7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.9m) and fosse (at W: Wth of top 7m; ext. D 1m) attached S-W-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 7 June 2016 Amended: 15 December 2022

• ME010-046 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located on a steep N-facing slope. A subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 110m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW) id defined by an earthen bank S-W-N which is incorporated into a road bank N-SE, and the perimeter probably incorporates an area of grass-covered rock outcrop SE-S. The interior and the bank at W is overlain by E-W cultivation ridges that are clearly visible on Google Earth (05/10/2009), and it also visible on other aerial images. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 June 2020

• ME016-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.5m NNE-SSW; 40m WNW-ESE) that slopes down to the S (H 1.8m). It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 7-8m; int. H 0.2m at S to 1.1m at N; ext. H 1.9m at S to 2.3m at N) and an outer fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 14m; ext. D 1m) that is reduced to a berm (at SSE: Wth 2m) NNE-S-W. The entrance (Wth of base 3.1m) is at SE and relict NE-SW cultivation ridges are preserved in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 25 February 2019.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyhist, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballyhist with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ballyhist · Baile Hoiste

Area

2,061,248 m² (206.12 ha, 509.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilskeer, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

220 people lived in 69 households in the Ballinlough electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balgree, Ballinlough Little, Killaconin or Jonesborough, Kingsmountain, Pottlebane, Pottlereagh, Seymourstown Black, Smithstown

Placenames

Ballyhist 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.