Ballynagrena
Townland in the civil parish of Dysart, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile na Gréine
Parcel 1135451
- Area
- 2,251 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 308 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballynagrena
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 50.6 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,658 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagrena, from 7 m² to 106,806 m² (10.68 ha, 26.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynagrena 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 May 2025Conditional
Permission consists of timber cladding to elevations of existing dwelling, a proposed garden shed and all associated siteworks.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560314
6 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 21251. The development will consist of a new storey and three-quarter dwelling, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site from existing laneway, new private water well and wastewater treatment system and sand filter together with all associated site development works. All other aspects oof development as previously approved under application number 21251
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360334
31 Jan 2022Conditional
permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref. no. 21/1206 for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, submission of flood risk assessment and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2266
20 Dec 2021Conditional
permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref. no. 20/1135 for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211507
24 Sept 2021Conditional
Outline permission for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, submission of flood risk assessment and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211206
10 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance to site via existing laneway and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21251
4 Jan 2021N/a
Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211
18 Dec 2020N/a
Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201134
18 Dec 2020Conditional
Outline permission for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 22/07/2021*
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201135
17 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission Reg. Ref 19207 for a proposed dwellinghouse with detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. The proposal includes a new vehicular entrance onto public road and amended site boundary to comply with condition 4(b) of outline planning permission Reg. ref 19207 *Significant Further Information Received on 21/10/2020*
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20626
21 Mar 2019Conditional
Outline permission is sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19207
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barmeath Woods 001801
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynagrena.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynagrena.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynagrena.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynagrena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynagrena · Baile na Gréine
- Area
- 506,309 m² (50.63 ha, 125.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Dysart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dysart electoral division: 1,034 people in 323 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barmeath, Gallagh, Grattanstown, Slieveboy, Trean
- Placenames
- Ballynagrena 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.