Balreask
Townland in the civil parish of Emlagh, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile Réisc
- Area
- 203.2 ha
- 502 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 2,021 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balreask, from 6 m² to 274,077 m² (27.41 ha, 67.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 · 95 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
20 Dec 2024Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24473
6 May 2022Conditional
(1) to construct a single storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (3) to alter and widen an existing entrance to form a combined entrance to serve the new proposed development and the existing dwelling adjacent to the proposed site (4) all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22580
11 Mar 2022Conditional
the retention of amendments to residence previously granted Planning Permission under Register Reference Number 21/105, the re-positioning of the domestic garage and change of use of part of same to home office/study
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22320
21 Jan 2021Conditional
amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to double garage previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 is proposed as part of this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21105
8 Jan 2021N/a
amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to double garage previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 is proposed as part of this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2124
16 Dec 2020N/a
development will consist of amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to garden store previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 are proposed as part of this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201954
14 Sept 2018Conditional
(A) Construction of 2 no. livestock cubicle sheds, 1 no. straw bedding shed and 1 no straw storage shed along with associated underground slatted tank. (B) construction of underground slatted tank adjacent to existing livestock shed. (C) Construction of underground soiled water storage tank (D) Construction of extension to existing silage pit and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application. Significant further information / revised plans submitted on this application.
Permission · Meath County Council, KA181070
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 Balreask.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balreask.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balreask.
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 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 Balreask.
- 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 Balreask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Balreask · Baile Réisc
- Area
- 2,032,044 m² (203.2 ha, 502.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emlagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Staholmog, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Staholmog electoral division: 427 people in 141 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carlanstown, Emlagh, Grange Glebe, Gravelstown, Headfort Demesne, Normanstown or Norbrinstown, Reask, Rossmeen
- Placenames
- Balreask 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.