Ballynare
Ballynare is a townland in the civil parish of Culmullin, barony of Deece Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 6.3 ha
- 16 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 8,318 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynare, from 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) to 50,910 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 12 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
30 Jan 2026Conditional
File Ref: 2560597 - Permission on previously approved site reg. ref. 21/1602 for the construction of a 1.5 storey detached dwelling including proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works with change of house type and site layout plan from that previously approved under Reg. Ref. 21/1602
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2650
19 Jul 2025Conditional
planning application for permission on previously approved site reg. ref. 22/472 for the construction of 2 storey/ single storey detached dwelling including proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works with change of house type and site layout plan from that previously approved under Reg. Ref. 22/472
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560751
12 Jun 2025Conditional
planning application for permission on previously approved site reg. ref. 21/1602 for the construction of a 1.5 storey detached dwelling including proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works with change of house type and site layout plan from that previously approved under Reg. Ref. 21/1602
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560597
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 Ballynare.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynare.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynare.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynare, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynare.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynare
- Area
- 62,741 m² (6.27 ha, 15.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Culmullin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Deece Upper
- Electoral division
- Culmullin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,283 people lived in 379 households in the Culmullin electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymaglassan, Blackhall Big, Culcommon, Cullendragh
- Placenames
- Ballynare 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.