# Ballymacan, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Grangegeeth, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 808,134 m² (80.81 ha, 199.69 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Grangegeeth, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/grangegeeth.md
- Barony: Slane Upper
- Electoral division: Grangegeeth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 695 people lived in 225 households in the Grangegeeth electoral division. 90% of households owned 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
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37645
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160132
- Centre: latitude 53.769134, longitude -6.557539 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacan, from 1,951 m² to 398,910 m² (39.89 ha, 98.57 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5235610: 398,910 m² (39.89 ha, 98.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5235610.md
- Parcel 147260: 373,032 m² (37.3 ha, 92.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147260.md
- Parcel 209292: 8,140 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209292.md
- Parcel 209481: 6,455 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209481.md
- Parcel 2845855: 4,379 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2845855.md
- Parcel 2861089: 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2861089.md
- Parcel 155362: 3,525 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155362.md
- Parcel 160396: 3,431 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160396.md
- Parcel 5354576: 2,975 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354576.md
- Parcel 164042: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/164042.md
- Parcel 147686: 1,951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/147686.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; 24 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 13 Jun 2025, Meath County Council 2560604: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , new vehicular entrance from public road and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560604/0

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 Ballymacan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- ME013-011: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-011----. Located on the NE end of a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 200m) that is part of the ENE-WSW Slieve Breagh ridge. A large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 65m E-W) is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as a ‘Fort’. In 1969 it was described (SMR file) as a circular area (diam. 50m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by a small section of a bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) incorporated into a field bank SE-S with an outer drain, and by a low scarp elsewhere. 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022
- ME013-030: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-030----. Situated at the SW end of a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 200m). This was describe in 1969 (SMR file) as a small round-sectioned stone (diam. c. 0.6m; H c. 1m) leaning slightly to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 August 2022

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 Ballymacan.

## 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 Ballymacan, 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: 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 Ballymacan.
- 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/ballymacan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymacan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymacan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballymacan 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)

- Grangegeeth: https://everytownland.com/meath/grangegeeth.md
- Hoardstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/hoardstown.md
- Mountfortescue: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountfortescue.md
- Mullagharoy: https://everytownland.com/meath/mullagharoy.md
- Rathbran Beg: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathbran-beg.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.

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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/ballymacan
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