# Ballintoppan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Mullach an tSopáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 343,332 m² (34.33 ha, 84.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,030 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clones, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/clones.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Drumhillagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 716 people lived in 234 households in the Drumhillagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40599 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170148 - Centre: latitude 54.211814, longitude -7.098584 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintoppan, from 7,594 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres) to 208,882 m² (20.89 ha, 51.62 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4928072: 208,882 m² (20.89 ha, 51.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928072.md - Parcel 324623: 91,527 m² (9.15 ha, 22.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324623.md - Parcel 325454: 17,030 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325454.md - Parcel 348342: 13,112 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348342.md - Parcel 355018: 7,594 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355018.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballintoppan 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) 1 application, newest first. - 21 May 2018, Monaghan County Council 18207: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct a milking parlour, meal bin and holding yard with underground slurry storage tank. Development will include the demolition of existing outhouse & the conversion of existing shed into dairy together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18207/0 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 Ballintoppan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintoppan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballintoppan House, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401217, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401217. Detached three-bay house, built c.1850, single-storey to front and two-storey to rear (south) elevation. Currently unoccupied. Half-hipped slate roof with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and clay ridge tiles. Harl-rendered walls having rendered plinth course, with tooled stone block-and-start quoins to front (north) elevation. Round-headed window openings to front with tooled stone surrounds, enlarged keystones and tooled stone sills, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and having timber panelled shutters to interior. Square-headed window openings to side elevations having tooled stone surrounds, sills and timber sliding sash windows: one-over-one pane to east, one-over-six pane to west. Square-headed replacement timber windows to rear, with render and masonry sills, some boarded up. Three-centred-arch door opening to front, having tooled stone block-and-start surround and voussoirs, with double-leaf timber door with pointed-arch panels having spandrel details, paned sidelights, and spoked fanlight. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber battened door. Set in garden with double-leaf wrought-iron gate with square-plan rendered piers to east of house. ## 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 Ballintoppan, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballintoppan. - 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/ballintoppan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballintoppan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballintoppan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballintoppan 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) - Cloghernagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cloghernagh-170292.md - Cornafaghy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornafaghy.md - Crockcumberland: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crockcumberland.md - Killycoghill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycoghill.md - Magherarny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/magherarny.md - Tulleevin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tulleevin.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/ballintoppan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/ballintoppan