# Ballyloughan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Baile an Locháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 808,567 m² (80.86 ha, 199.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 176,921 m² (17.69 ha, 43.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Lough Fea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Lough Fea electoral division: 686 people in 234 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39579 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170154 - Centre: latitude 53.949891, longitude -6.723078 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughan, from 4,462 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres) to 404,826 m² (40.48 ha, 100.03 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2558748: 404,826 m² (40.48 ha, 100.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2558748.md - Parcel 332685: 331,137 m² (33.11 ha, 81.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332685.md - Parcel 333785: 22,704 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333785.md - Parcel 326825: 4,462 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326825.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyloughan 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 25 Jan 2023, Monaghan County Council 2324: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a single storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2324/0 - 22 Dec 2022, Monaghan County Council 22526: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission consisting of the construction of a single storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22526/0 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 Ballyloughan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyloughan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Lough Fea House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41403137, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41403137. Entrance gateway to Lough Fea, erected c.1850, comprising pair of square-plan dressed limestone piers with moulded cornices and with stepped caps topped by ball finials. Set back from road at most southerly entrance to Lough Fea.Double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate, flanked by matching railings, set between rubble stone boundary walls.Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge inside gateway, having partly blocked former door opening to front (west) elevation and extension to rear elevation. Now in use as house and having pitched slate roofs with plain timber bargeboards and red brick chimneystack, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with rough rubble dressings to surrounds, and having replacement timber windows and doors. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility 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_2639, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2639.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/ballyloughan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyloughan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyloughan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyloughan 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) - Aghlattacru: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghlattacru.md - Doohatty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/doohatty.md - Leons Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leons-beg.md - Leonsgarve or Leons (McKenna): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leonsgarve-or-leons-mckenna.md - Liscorran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscorran.md - Magheraboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/magheraboy.md - Mokeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mokeeran.md - Nure Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/nure-beg.md - Nure More: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/nure-more-171573.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/ballyloughan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/ballyloughan