Ballakelly
Ballakelly is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Ceallaigh.
- Area
- 55.1 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,987 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballakelly, from 157 m² to 160,418 m² (16.04 ha, 39.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballakelly 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
17 Sept 2021Conditional
permission for development consisting of a 2-storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to alterations to house design along with repositioning and reorientation of the proposed dwelling on the site. Alterations to the garage design and the repositioning of the domestic garage along with alteration to the site boundaries
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21530
17 May 2017N/a
(1) Permission for filling part of existing agricultural field with imported subsoil and topsoil (in connection with a waste permit application). (2) RETENTION of filling material already imported to site. (3) Permission to use existing laneway onto public road and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17229
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 Ballakelly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballakelly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballakelly.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballakelly, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballakelly.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballakelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Ballakelly · Béal Átha Ceallaigh
- Area
- 551,138 m² (55.11 ha, 136.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Inishkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,182 people lived in 409 households in the Inishkeen electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaglass, Cornagarvoge, Drumcamill (Co. Louth), Monavallet (Co. Louth), Toomes (Co. Louth)
- Placenames
- Ballakelly 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.