# Balladian, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Béal Átha an Daingin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,089,481 m² (108.95 ha, 269.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,969 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybay, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ballybay.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39634 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170143 - Centre: latitude 54.119578, longitude -6.928918 (WGS 84) ## 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); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 341296: 169,267 m² (16.93 ha, 41.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341296.md - Parcel 320413: 163,575 m² (16.36 ha, 40.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320413.md - Parcel 333020: 123,939 m² (12.39 ha, 30.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333020.md - Parcel 335069: 117,060 m² (11.71 ha, 28.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335069.md - Parcel 325829: 76,246 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325829.md - Parcel 340696: 63,943 m² (6.39 ha, 15.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340696.md - Parcel 338915: 61,180 m² (6.12 ha, 15.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338915.md - Parcel 343417: 52,776 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343417.md - Parcel 338349: 46,794 m² (4.68 ha, 11.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338349.md - Parcel 5301955: 45,995 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5301955.md - Parcel 341298: 44,816 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341298.md - Parcel 335070: 32,969 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335070.md - Parcel 345116: 19,478 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345116.md - Parcel 341297: 13,180 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341297.md - Parcel 318321: 6,129 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318321.md - Parcel 315786: 3,993 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315786.md - Parcel 334877: 3,303 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334877.md - Parcel 317016: 2,948 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317016.md - Parcel 5301932: 2,845 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5301932.md - Parcel 329927: 2,721 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329927.md - Parcel 5301953: 1,398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5301953.md - Parcel 3996128: 797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996128.md - Parcel 341300: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/341300.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 6 Mar 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660073: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660073/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460462: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460462/0 - 4 Oct 2023, Monaghan County Council 239015: Refused. Extension of duration. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/239015/0 - 20 Dec 2021, Monaghan County Council 21692: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21692/0 - 18 Oct 2018, Monaghan County Council 18481: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18481/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balladian. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balladian. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Balladian Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41401832, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401832. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Balladian, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2379.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/balladian.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/balladian.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/balladian.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annaneese: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annaneese.md - Bowelk: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bowelk.md - Corwillin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corwillin.md - Cumry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cumry.md - Derryvally: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derryvally.md - Drumhillagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumhillagh-170862.md - Edenaneane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/edenaneane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/balladian - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/balladian