Balgeen

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balgeen, from 15,338 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres) to 1,003,712 m² (100.37 ha, 248.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• 22 Dec 2022N/a

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 5.96 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 101,302 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation. Permission is also sought for a wheel wash, site office cabin and port aloo. The site access and haul road is an additional 1.03ha

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221715

• 9 Dec 2022N/a

  development will consist of the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 5.96 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 101,302 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221614

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 Balgeen.

Recorded monuments

• ME027-044 Excavation - miscellaneous
  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.

• ME027-047 Habitation site
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balgeen, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balgeen

Area

1,536,418 m² (153.64 ha, 379.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsharvan, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Julianstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

11,501 people lived in 3,991 households in the Julianstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dardistown, Hilltown Great, Hollymount, Kilsharvan, Newhaggard, Raholland, Shallon

Placenames

Balgeen 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.