Ballynaclose
Townland in the civil parish of Enniskeen, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 58.1 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaclose, from 354 m² to 92,469 m² (9.25 ha, 22.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jul 2026N/a
the development will consist of the following: to construct new entrance onto public road, new finishes and entrance splay walls to existing office building entrance, retain alterations to floor plan and elevations/facades of existing office as per previously granted planning 2360009, enclosed external escape staircase, landscaping and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660876
1 Jul 2026Conditional
the development will consist of the erection of a steel portal framed extension to the existing warehouses and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660817
18 Jun 2026N/a
The development will consist of the following: to construct new entrance onto public road, new finishes and entrance splay walls to existing office building entrance, retain alterations to floor plan and elevations/facades of existing office as per previously granted planning 2360009, enclosed external escape staircase, landscaping and all associated site works at Ballynaclose, Lisnagrow, Kilmainhamwood, Kells, Co. Meath.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660751
28 Mar 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the erection of a steel portal framed structure (to enclose manufacturing equipment) with an external access stairway and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560309
1 Aug 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the erection of a steel portal framed extension to the existing warehouses, retaining perimeter wall around extension, temporary construction site entrance onto public road, and ancillary site development works.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460593
19 Jun 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of 4 above ground tanks (520m2 each) for the collection of surface water, 1 above ground firewater tank (520m2), 1 pumphouse (17.4m2), 5 below ground attenuation tanks (73 – 79 m2), 1 electrical control building (17.4m2), 1 wheelwash (91m2) and associated works over a site area of ca. 1.2 ha. The existing site operates under an Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence (Ref. P0519-04)
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460443
18 Apr 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the erection of a steel portal framed structure to enclose the relocated dust collector for existing board plant and ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460263
17 Apr 2024Conditional
the development will consist of a production supply well, pumphouse (25m2), fencing and connection to the existing pumphouse and all ancillary site development works over an application area of c. 0.13 hectares
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460261
24 Nov 2023Conditional
the development will consist of the installation of a railway overbridge and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360427
28 Apr 2023Conditional
The development will consist of the installation of ground mounted Photovoltaic Panels on the existing capped landfill, connection to existing factory electrical infrastructure and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360022
11 Apr 2023Conditional
planning permission sought by Saint-Gobain Construction Products (Ireland) Limited to construct two storey extensions to front and rear of existing two storey office building, alterations to internal layout and elevations/facades of existing office and factory building, construct new canopies over existing external walkways, landscaping and associated site works at Ballynaclose, Kilmainhamwood, Kells, Co. Meath.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360009
3 Apr 2023N/a
Planning Permission sought by Saint-Gobain Construction Products (Ireland) Limited to construct two storey extensions to front and rear of existing two storey office building, alterations to internal layout and elevations/facades of existing office and factory building, construct new canopies over existing external walkways, landscaping and associated site works at Ballynaclose, Kilmainhamwood, Kells, Co. Meath.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360002
27 Jan 2023Conditional
the development consists of 1) Retention of the existing attached domestic store, 2) Retention of the existing detached domestic garage, 3) Retention of the existing garden room and 3) All ancillary site development works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2379
3 Nov 2021Conditional
the erection of a two bay extension to the existing plaster mill at roof level to accommodate new paper screening system and a single storey extension/shelter at ground level to accommodate a compactor and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 212110
17 Feb 2020Conditional
the development will consist of; 1) alteration to existing rock road entrance and relocation of entrance gate, 2) new lorry park with associated drainage and lighting, 3) 2 No. new weighbridges and 4) all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA200177
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynaclose.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynaclose.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynaclose.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballynaclose.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynaclose with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynaclose
- Area
- 580,804 m² (58.08 ha, 143.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Enniskeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Carrickleck, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickleck electoral division: 457 people in 159 households; 94% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafarnan, Lisnabo, Lisnagrow, Newcastle, Raloaghan
- Placenames
- Ballynaclose 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.