Balnagon Lower

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balnagon Lower, from 71 m² to 494,716 m² (49.47 ha, 122.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 83 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 3 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) to construct a two storied extension to the side of existing two-storied dwelling house, (2) to make internal alterations to the internal layout of the dwelling, (3) to close up and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (4) and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23229

• 5 Nov 2021Refused

  an agricultural entrance and all site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212136

• 14 Dec 2018Conditional

  a Cubicle Livestock Housing Shed, Pre Fabricated Over Ground Slurry Storage Tank and all site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181502

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 Balnagon Lower.

Recorded monuments

• ME016-021 Moated site
  Description

  Located in a fairly level, low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a rectangular earthwork described as ‘Ben’s Fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised rectangular and grass-covered area (dims 37m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) defined by a fosse or moat (Wth of top 8-11; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.2m), and slight outer banks at the S end of the NE and SW (Wth c. 6m; ext. H 0.2m) sides. The W angle forms a raised platform (dims 21m NE-SW; 12 NW-SE; H 0.4m) which may be natural. The moat is eroded away at the N angle where there is a grass-covered mound (diam. of base 15m; diam. of top 3m; HJ 1.7m) that may be spoil. There are gaps at either end of the NE side and at the centre of the SE side but an original entrance is not identified. 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 Amended: 3 February 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Balnagon Lower.

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.

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

Name

Balnagon Lower

Area

2,992,785 m² (299.28 ha, 739.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilskeer, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Boherboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boherboy electoral division: 324 people in 110 households; 96% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balnagon Upper, Castlekeeran, Drumbaragh, Killaconin or Jonesborough, Seymourstown Black, Seymourstown White

Placenames

Balnagon Lower 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.