# Ballymacforban, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Baile Mhic Fhearbáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 445,810 m² (44.58 ha, 110.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,990 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/monaghan.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Rackwallace, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% 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/40892 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170155 - Centre: latitude 54.234779, longitude -6.939669 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacforban, from 100 m² to 106,254 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 349091: 106,254 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349091.md - Parcel 349098: 88,852 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349098.md - Parcel 349092: 57,378 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349092.md - Parcel 3044824: 41,332 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3044824.md - Parcel 349094: 40,526 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349094.md - Parcel 349093: 38,890 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349093.md - Parcel 3995913: 26,396 m² (2.64 ha, 6.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995913.md - Parcel 349095: 16,197 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349095.md - Parcel 343669: 10,839 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343669.md - Parcel 339346: 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339346.md - Parcel 346364: 2,822 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346364.md - Parcel 345599: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345599.md - Parcel 320347: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320347.md - Parcel 333443: 1,587 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/333443.md - Parcel 315432: 1,450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315432.md - Parcel 331413: 1,403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331413.md - Parcel 329761: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329761.md - Parcel 320787: 1,228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320787.md - Parcel 4450213: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4450213.md - Parcel 348667: 519 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348667.md - Parcel 321769: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321769.md - Parcel 353490: 366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353490.md - Parcel 318218: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/318218.md - Parcel 316823: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316823.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacforban 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. - 29 Apr 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660163: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the development will consist of the construction of 1 No. Two storey dwelling, 1 No. detached single storey domestic garage, provision of a new effluent treatment system with associated percolation area, formation of a new access onto an existing private laneway, improvement of the existing site entrance onto the public road, together with all associated site development works. The application includes the provision of a mobile home to be used as living accommodation on a temporary basis. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660163/0 - 7 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560401: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for the demolition of an existing two storey dwelling and outhouse, the construction of 1 No. Two storey replacement dwelling, provision of new effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all ancillary site works. The application includes the provision of a mobile home to be used as living accommodation on a temporary basis. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560401/0 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 Ballymacforban. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacforban. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballinagall Orange Hall, 1885–1890, Regional interest, registry number 41400958, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400958. Detached three-bay Orange hall, dated 1887, having gabled porch to front (north) elevation and central return to rear. Now in use as domestic shed. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge-crests and finial, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls, ruled-and-lined to porch and west elevation. Tooled dressed limestone name and shield-shaped date-plaques, having peck-dressed recessed panels, to front of porch. Square-headed window openings, with tooled sandstone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of porch and rear return, having timber panelled doors. Boundary hedge enclosing site, terminating in stretch of recent, overgrown, boundary wall with timber traffic gate to north-east. ## 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 Ballymacforban, about 1 in 20 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_2374, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2374.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/ballymacforban.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballymacforban.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballymacforban.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacforban 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) - Bellanagall: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bellanagall.md - Corlat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlat-170442.md - Corness: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corness.md - Drumhirk: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumhirk-170869.md - Dunaldron: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunaldron.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/ballymacforban - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/ballymacforban