Ballinlough

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 134 m² to 82,408 m² (8.24 ha, 20.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlough in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct a single storey type dwelling house, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660315

• 18 Feb 2026Refused

  to construct a single storey type dwelling house, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660072

• 11 Jan 2024Conditional

  for structure, that includes: store for plumbing equipment, and small area for servicing small plumbing equipment, and all associated site works for all works, significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460010

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  to close 2 no existing vehicular entrances to either side of existing dwelling and form new vehicular entrance together with associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360332

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  of numerous farm structures and enclosures for the purpose of housing farm animals and machinery, comprising chicken houses, chicken coops, pig enclosure, open sheds, storage sheds etc., access road and associated site development works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 21702

• 31 Aug 2020Refused

  to develop new bellmouth vehicular entrance to existing dwelling and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20378

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on a low peninsula jutting into Common's Lough. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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. Cavan.

Name

Ballinlough

Area

619,714 m² (61.97 ha, 153.13 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Grilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grilly electoral division: 512 people in 165 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonosey, Corporation Lands, Kinagha More, Shancorn

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.