# Ballyleck, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Baile Leice. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 670,561 m² (67.06 ha, 165.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,659 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Bellanode, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,571 people lived in 495 households in the Bellanode electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% 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/40347 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170153 - Centre: latitude 54.236517, longitude -7.013563 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 315582: 56,755 m² (5.68 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315582.md - Parcel 351741: 16,562 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351741.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 11 Sept 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460341: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460341/0 - 1 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 188015: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/188015/0 - 31 Aug 2017, Monaghan County Council 178008: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/178008/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ulster Canal (Aghalisk), site code 001611 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-048: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-048----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-049----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballyleck Bridge, bridge, 1835–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41400956, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400956. 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, registry number 41400967, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400967. 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. ## 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 Ballyleck, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2302, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2302.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/ballyleck.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyleck.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyleck.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyleck 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) - Brandrum: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/brandrum.md - Camla: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/camla.md - Clonavarn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clonavarn.md - Cornecassa Demesne: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornecassa-demesne.md - Tullybryan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullybryan.md - Tullygrimes: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullygrimes.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/ballyleck - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/ballyleck