Ballaghnagearn

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghnagearn, from 130 m² to 99,004 m² (9.9 ha, 24.46 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghnagearn 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission for a dwelling house , detached domestic garage , waste water treatment system and percolation area , access to site via existing agricultural gate and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560250

• 11 Sept 2023Conditional

  permission to demolish existing two storey farmhouse and outbuildings and reconstruct replacement two storey dwelling with semi-detached single storey garage, new vehicular entrance onto public roadway, driveway, landscaping, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works at Corlea & Ballaghnagearn, Magheracloone, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360202

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission for a single storey extension to rear of existing school for resource room and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21214

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of (1) new pull-in areas for car parking along existing public road at the side and front of existing school (2) removal of existing hedge and grass verge along existing road (3) new footpath along car park bays with island (4) new boundary walls beside footpaths (5) new road ramps (6) new railing along footpath (7) piping of existing drain (8) drainage works to pull in areas (9) existing 2.4m high fencing to be erected behind new wall in playing pitch area and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20301

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 Ballaghnagearn.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghnagearn.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Ballaghnagearn.

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 Ballaghnagearn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Ballaghnagearn · Bealach na gCeithearn

Area

537,679 m² (53.77 ha, 132.86 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlea, Drumbrone, Drumerlough More, Scalkill

Placenames

Ballaghnagearn 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.