Ballinlough

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 163 m² to 286,010 m² (28.6 ha, 70.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Dec 2023Conditional

  the renovations and alterations to the existing dwelling including alterations to all elevations, a first floor snug extension, 3 no. new dormer windows, the construction of a detached single storey garden room, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system, along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 231125

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of the following (1) To construct a single storied dwelling house, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to connect to mains water supply (3) to make a new entrance onto the cul-de-sac roadway and (4) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22651

• 28 Jan 2022Conditional

  (1) to construct a sun-room extension to the front and side of the existing dwelling (2) to remove an existing bay window on the front elevation of the house and replace with windows to comply with condition No. 8 of previous grant of permission ref DA/140208 (3) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2296

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 the townland of Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinlough.

Architectural heritage

• Dunshaughlin Union Workhouse, workhouse administration block, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached dressed stone former workhouse master's house, built c.1840, now in use as guest house. Comprising an eight-bay two-storey range, with an advanced gable-fronted single-bay three-storey block attached to the north. Single-storey extensions to rear. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks, carved timber barge boards, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar string courses, door surround, and dressings to openings. Some cast-iron diamond paned windows to three-storey block. Limestone ashlar gate piers. Remains of outbuilding to site.

• Dunshaughlin Union Workhouse, workhouse, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey dressed limestone H-plan former workhouse, built c.1840. Now derelict and in use as farmyard complex. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron diamond paned windows set in timber frames with limestone sills and brick dressings. Timber doors set in openings with limestone dressings. Outbuilding to rear.

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 Ballinlough, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballinlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ballinlough

Area

836,436 m² (83.64 ha, 206.69 acres)

Civil parish

Dunshaughlin, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

8,517 people lived in 2,904 households in the Dunshaughlin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurphy, Derrockstown, Mooretown, Powderlough, Rath Hill

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.