Ballyleck

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyleck, from 16,562 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres) to 56,755 m² (5.68 ha, 14.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ballyleck 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.

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  permission to construct an agricultural shed for the housing of livestock. Shed to include dry pens & slatted area with tank along with attached manure pit & other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460341

• 1 Nov 2018Conditional

  The construction of a Type 1 carriageway for a distance of 3.1km from the townland of Tullygrimes to the townland of Annaghervy. The N54 realignment will consist of 7.3km carriageway with 2x2.5km hard shoulders and 2 x 3m verges, the provision of a ghost island junction located at the junction of the N54 with the R187 regional road and at the junction of the N54 with the local road L1600. The local roads L16004 and L1600 will be realigned to provide a stagger type junction with the local roads L21803 and L16005.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 188015

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  The construction of a Type 1 carriageway for a distance of 3.1km from a location 500m west of Monaghan Town boundary to a location 180m west of the R187 regional road junction with the N54. The N54 realignment will consist of 7.3m carriageway with 2 x 2.5m hard shoulders and 2 x 3m verges, the provision of a ghost island junction located at the junction of the N54 with the R187 regional road and at the junction of the N54 with the local road L1600.The local roads L16004 and L1600 will be realigned to provide a stagger type junction with the local roads L21803 and L160005

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 178008

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ulster Canal (Aghalisk) 001611

Recorded monuments

• MO009-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a local rise of a low-lying S-N spur between S-N streams to the W and E that meet c. 250m to the N. A circular embanked and overgrown enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’. There is no visible evidence of an earthwork in pasture but the top of the rise is flat (diam. 21m N-S; 20m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 December 2017

• MO009-049 House - 17th century
  Description

  John Burnett, a scion of an Aberdeenshire family, began acquiring land in Monaghan in 1609. He settled at Ballyleck where according to an inquisition of 1622 he had built ‘a fayre castle or cheefehouse, and a bawne of lyme and stone, with two fayre flankers very strong and defensable’. At that time he owned land in 130 townlands, all of which are provided in the inquisition together with the names of their previous owners. His children lost this inheritance for supposed rebellion against Charles I and by the reign of Charles II it seems to have descended by the female line and was owned by the Cole and other families. The estate was purchased by Richard Westenra in the early nineteenth century (Shirley 1879, 211-13). A castle, probably a fortified house, is depicted at Ballyleck on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), but its precise location is not known although it could be where Ballyleck House now is. Ballyleck House is represented as a house owned by the Montgomery family on the 1783 Taylor and Skinner map of the roads of Ireland (Andrews 1969, 259), and it is still occupied. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 14 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Ballyleck Bridge, bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpback canal bridge, built c.1838, carrying private road over Ulster Canal. Elliptical arch with tooled sandstone voussoirs. Roughly coursed squared sandstone to spandrel and parapet walls, parapets terminating in square-pan squared sandstone piers. Tooled stone platband over arch. Gunnelled squared stone to soffit. Tow path with tooled stone coping running to north abutment. Squared roughly-coursed sandstone rubble walls having tooled stone coping to approach to bridge. Towpath to north underside of bridge, with cut-stone kerbing.

• Ballyleck, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1820. Hipped replacement natural slate roof with polychrome-brick rectangular-plan chimneystack and clay pots, replacement rainwater goods, and timber eaves supports. Rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed window openings throughout with render sills, timber sliding sash windows: four-over-four pane to front (east) elevation, six-over-six pane to west elevation, bipartite timber frame window to north elevation, and replacement two-over-two pane to rear (west) and front elevation. One margined four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to front. Square-headed door opening to front having timber battened half-door. Recent pedimented timber and slate canopies over openings. Gateway comprising pair of rock-faced rusticated square-profile piers flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate, single-leaf cast-iron pedestrian gates with rock-faced rusticated square-plan piers to each side. Rendered capping to piers.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2302 (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.

No address of the register names Ballyleck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Ballyleck · Baile Leice

Area

670,561 m² (67.06 ha, 165.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Bellanode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellanode electoral division: 1,571 people in 495 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brandrum, Camla, Clonavarn, Cornecassa Demesne, Tullybryan, Tullygrimes

Placenames

Ballyleck 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.