Balladian
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Béal Átha an Daingin
- Area
- 108.9 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 32,969 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balladian, from 92 m² to 169,267 m² (16.93 ha, 41.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
No zone of a development plan covers Balladian in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Mar 2026Conditional
permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)), and all associated site works at Cumry, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660073
18 Dec 2024Conditional
permission for the construction of an agricultural building with a slurry storage tank under within an existing farm complex and all other associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460462
4 Oct 2023Refused
Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 239015
20 Dec 2021Conditional
permission for development consisting of; erect a two storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, close existing entrance & form new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21692
18 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18481
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 Balladian.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balladian.
Architectural heritage
- Balladian Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch road bridge over Dromore River, built c.1830. Elliptical arches with cut peck-dressed limestone voussoirs, and squared coursed and snecked rubble stone soffits. Squared limestone parapet walls, with rusticated copings, stretching to north and south, covering extensive flood plains to east and west. V-shaped cutwaters of coursed squared stones to east and west elevations.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379 (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 Balladian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Balladian · Béal Átha an Daingin
- Area
- 1,089,481 m² (108.95 ha, 269.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballybay Rural electoral division: 1,593 people in 581 households; 63% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaneese, Bowelk, Corwillin, Cumry, Derryvally, Drumhillagh, Edenaneane
- Placenames
- Balladian 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.