Balgeeth

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balgeeth, from 68 m² to 250,646 m² (25.06 ha, 61.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of extension, internal and elevational alterations to existing house, and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, 24419

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211951

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  a stable & store building to the rear west corner of the site, along with all associated site works and services

  Retention · Meath County Council, 211655

• 15 Aug 2019Conditional

  construction of a two storey type dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA191067

• 2 Aug 2019N/a

  construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA191023

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  proposed private residence, detached domestic garage, install proposed septic tank and percolation area, entrance onto main road, including all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170318

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 Balgeeth.

Recorded monuments

• ME031-023 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Marked 'fort' on 1837 OS 6" map. No visible trace. 2 circular enclosures visible at this point on aerial photograph (Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway). See also ME031-048---- and ME031-049----.

• ME031-048 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME031-049 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME031-050 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME031-087 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape c. 10m W of a canalised S-N section of the River Skane at a point where two drainage ditches join it approaching from the NW and SW with the monument in the angle between these drains. Archaeological testing (04E1499) by R. Tobin on the line of a sewer-pipe identified a spread of burnt mound material, which was subsequently excavated (05E0022) by the same archaeologist. A substantial mound (diam. 5.34-6m; max. H 0.38m) of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix was truncated by the field drain at NE. It was situated on a rise of peat (dims 6m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW; max. H 0.45m). The burnt mound was retained by a line of three large stones (L 1.36m; H 0.14m) at its SE edge. These kept the burnt stone from spilling into the straight-sided and flat-bottomed trough (diam. 1.4-1.5m; max. D 0.5m) which was 1m outside the mound. It had three fills of varying amounts of silt, clay and burnt stones, and a second irregular pit (dims 2.2m plus x 1.17m; max. D 0.36m) beneath the mound that was filled with coarse sand and silty clays was also truncated by the drainage ditch at NE. Three smaller spreads (diam. 1m; T 0.1m) of broken and burnt stone material were probably detached from the main mound. No artefacts were recovered. A sample from the primary fill of the trough produced a C14 date of 2130-1900 cal. BC, while a sample of charred oak from the pit has a C14 date of 2120-1890 cal. BC. A sample of hazel charcoal from the mound has a C14 date of 2200-1960 cal. BC demonstrating that the fulacht fia had a confined period of use. (Tobin 2010, 6-10) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 26 February 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balgeeth, 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_2746 (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 Balgeeth with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Balgeeth

Area

1,484,318 m² (148.43 ha, 366.78 acres)

Civil parish

Assey, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Tara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,466 people lived in 438 households in the Tara electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Assey, Ballinter, Balreask, Bonfield, Ringlestown, Riverstown

Placenames

Balgeeth 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.