Balreask

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balreask, from 6 m² to 274,077 m² (27.41 ha, 67.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 · 95 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 Mar 2026Conditional

  the proposed development includes 1. Retention permission for the first-floor attic conversion into a bedroom and office space. 2. Full planning permission for a ground-floor side extension to serve as a sunroom, together with all related ancillary site development works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2660356

• 20 Dec 2024Refused

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24473

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  (1) to construct a single storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (3) to alter and widen an existing entrance to form a combined entrance to serve the new proposed development and the existing dwelling adjacent to the proposed site (4) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22580

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  the retention of amendments to residence previously granted Planning Permission under Register Reference Number 21/105, the re-positioning of the domestic garage and change of use of part of same to home office/study

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22320

• 21 Jan 2021Conditional

  amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to double garage previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 is proposed as part of this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21105

• 8 Jan 2021N/a

  amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to double garage previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 is proposed as part of this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2124

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  development will consist of amendments to the design of detached 1.5 storey 4 bedroom family dwelling; and alterations to garden store previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429. No other amendments to the development previously approved planning permission under Pl. Ref. KA/191429 are proposed as part of this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201954

• 14 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) Construction of 2 no. livestock cubicle sheds, 1 no. straw bedding shed and 1 no straw storage shed along with associated underground slatted tank. (B) construction of underground slatted tank adjacent to existing livestock shed. (C) Construction of underground soiled water storage tank (D) Construction of extension to existing silage pit and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application. Significant further information / revised plans submitted on this application.

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA181070

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 Balreask.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balreask.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balreask, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balreask · Baile Réisc

Area

2,032,044 m² (203.2 ha, 502.13 acres)

Civil parish

Emlagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Staholmog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

427 people lived in 141 households in the Staholmog electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carlanstown, Emlagh, Grange Glebe, Gravelstown, Headfort Demesne, Normanstown or Norbrinstown, Reask, Rossmeen

Placenames

Balreask 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.