Ballymacoll Little

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacoll Little, from 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 353,066 m² (35.31 ha, 87.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  the proposed development will consist of an application for a 10-year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 215 hectare solar farm (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of two separate land parcels divided by local roads. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with 28 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 2 no. temporary construction compounds, the use of existing farm access tracks and existing site entrances, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing with some areas of boundary development on concrete shoes to further protect possible underground archaeological features, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Ballymacoll Little, Boolies, Nuttstown, Ballintry, Belgree, Rowan and Kinoristown, Co. Meath. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460742

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 Ballymacoll Little.

Recorded monuments

• ME051-020 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018). It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (24/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 April, 2019

• ME051-021 Field system
  Description

  Situated on what might be a rise in a fairly level landscape. The group of three or four small contiguous fields (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) defined by wide ditches (Wth c. 3-6m) and covering an area of about 1.5 hectares (c. 4 acres) is visible on OSI images (1995) and Google Earth (24/06/2019). It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillére. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 April, 2019

• ME051-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a local height in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) is visible on OSI aerial images (1995) and on Google Earth (24/06/2019). It is overlain by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Caulstown to the W and c. a third of the monument is not visible in Caulstown. There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) in the fosse at ESE. It is probably a rath and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 April, 2019

• ME051-023 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located towards the NW end of a narrow NW-SE ridge. The cropmpark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 5-8m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018). It is also faintly visible on OSI aerial images (1995) and Digital Globe (c. 2013). It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillére. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 April, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymacoll Little, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2997 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballymacoll Little

Area

1,217,963 m² (121.8 ha, 300.97 acres)

Civil parish

Dunboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Dunboyne

Electoral division

Dunboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolies, Caulstown, Fidorfe, Herbertstown, Loughlinstown, Nuttstown

Placenames

Ballymacoll Little 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.