Ballaverty

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaverty, from 21 m² to 133,117 m² (13.31 ha, 32.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballaverty 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.

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission and Permission for the following: 1. Retention permission for the continued use of three parcels of land within the existing sand and gravel pit for ancillary quarry activities, as follows: Parcel A: A 0.15-hectare area used for internal access and stockpiling of excavated material, originally permitted under Plan File Ref. No. 81/798, but not restored as required under the original planning conditions. Parcel B: A 0.49-hectare area used for stockpiling of excavated material, originally permitted under Plan File Ref. No. 81/798, but not restored as required under the original planning conditions. Parcel C: A 0.36-hectare area used for internal access to processing areas and includes a settlement lagoon that forms part of the site's water management system, originally permitted under Plan File Ref. No. 00/267, but not restored as required under the original planning conditions. 2. Planning permission for the continued use of these areas to support ongoing sand and gravel pit operations, including material storage, internal access, and water management. No extraction is proposed within these areas. A time limit for the permission is proposed to align with the existing planning permission for the site (Plan File Ref. No. 09/96), extending to 22nd November 2029

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460636

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  Full Permission for alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, including construction of extensions to the front (proposed porch) and rear (single storey extension), elevational & internal arrangement changes, revised boundary treatments and alterations to the existing vehicular entrance with all site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460110

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for a garage/store adjoining existing dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19341

• 25 Mar 2019N/a

  Retention permission for a garage / store adjoining existing dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19218

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  Planning permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18656

• 20 Feb 2018N/a

  PERMISSION sought for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18118

• 24 Jan 2018N/a

  Permission for development will consist of a dwelling house, Septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1852

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carlingford Mountain SAC 000453
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlingford Mountain 000453

Recorded monuments

• LH008-055001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Known locally as 'Dunanaill'. Sub-circular area (int. dims. 21.5m E-W, 18.5m N-S) enclosed by earth and boulder bank (Wth 8.2m, H 1.1-2.4m) with entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SSE. Possible ancient field system (LH008-055002-) surrounding site on all sides.

• LH008-055002 Field system
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Possible ancient field system surrounding ringfort (LH008-055001-) on all sides.

• LH008-075001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (int. diam. 21m) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank (Wth 2.5m, H 0.5m internally, 1.1m externally) with traces of external fosse. Entrance gap (Wth 1.3m) lined by boulders, at WSW. Remains of sub-circular low mound (5.7m NW-SE, 4.7m NE-SW) at centre of interior possibly represents a house site (LH008-075002-).

• LH008-075002 House - medieval
  Description

  Remains of sub-circular low mound (5.7m NW-SE, 4.7m NE-SW) in centre of ringfort (LH008-075001-) possibly represents a house site. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 March 2012

• LH008-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (int. diam. 24.5m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth c. 5.3m, H 1.4m internally, 1.9m externally), fosse (Wth 5.5m) and outer bank (Wth 4.1m, H 2.3m internally, 0.3m externally). Outer bank survives only from N-E-SE. Entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) in inner bank at SW; S half of interior covered in quarry depressions.

• LH008-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Large bivallate ringfort almost totally destroyed by modern field fences, roadway and house.

• LH008-078 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Roughly circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 36m N-S, c. 32m E-W) defined by two cropmark arcs on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AJZ 15). Suggestions of outer enclosure with wide intervening space.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaverty.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballaverty, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaverty.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballaverty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ballaverty · Baile Uí Laibheartaigh

Area

862,874 m² (86.29 ha, 213.22 acres)

Civil parish

Carlingford, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Rathcor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,484 people lived in 467 households in the Rathcor electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlecarragh, Castletowncooley, Earls Quarter, Mullaghattin, Rath, Rath Lower, Rathcor

Placenames

Ballaverty 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.