Boynehill or Ballagh
Townland in the civil parish of Navan, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 37.8 ha
- 93 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 2,580 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boynehill or Ballagh, from 79 m² to 107,121 m² (10.71 ha, 26.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 · 50 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
12 Dec 2025Refused
provision of a new agricultural entrance
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561360
1 Aug 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the following: (1) Retention of elevation and floor plan alterations to existing single storey dwelling made during the course of construction from that previously granted under planning Ref 211874 and ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2560807
24 Nov 2023Conditional
development is sought for a replacement dwelling. It is proposed to demolish the existing dwelling currently located on the site and erect a new stand-alone dwelling within the plot. The courtyard scheme is to include for a single storey pool, carport, shed/garage - all use ancillary to the main dwelling, along with a living block with bedrooms located above within the dormer roof. Including new drainage percolation area and soakaway along with all associated ancillary site works and landscape works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement is being submitted with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360430
4 Aug 2023Refused
the provision of a new agricultural entrance with the existing bell mouth entrance. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 23781
17 Feb 2023Refused
the provision of a new agricultural entrance within the existing bell mouth entrance
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23155
24 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage with access from public road via existing agricultural entrance and install a proprietary sewage treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211874
4 Dec 2020Refused
development will consist of the provision of a new agricultural entrance.
Permission · Meath County Council, NA201861
20 Nov 2020Refused
development will consist of the construction of a storey and a half dwelling with detached domestic garage, on site waste water treatment system, road entrance together with all associated site services and development.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, NA201765
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Boynehill or Ballagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boynehill or Ballagh.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2744 (ZIP).
- 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 Boynehill or Ballagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Boynehill or Ballagh
- Area
- 378,377 m² (37.84 ha, 93.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Navan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Navan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Navan Rural electoral division: 31,940 people in 10,373 households; 70% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardsallagh, Ballybatter or Balreask New, Kennastown, Kilcarn
- Placenames
- Boynehill or Ballagh 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.