Ballyloughan
Ballyloughan is a townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Baile an Locháin.
Parcel 332685
- Area
- 331,137 m² (33.11 ha, 81.83 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,584 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyloughan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- MO031-077 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight NE-SE ridge. This rath is represented on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is a subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 52m E-W; 47.8m N-S) with some rock outcrop and a few mature deciduous trees. It is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) with traces of an external fosse (at SE: Wth c. 5m; D 0.1m). The perimeter is incorporated into a field bank (at NW: Wth 7.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m) and hedge with external stone facing and an outer fosse (at NW: Wth 3.4m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-N-NE, but it forms the townland boundary with Ballyloughan NE-S-SW. There is an entrance at E, now blocked by a modern stone facing. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 31 July 2017
- MO031-089 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the E-facing slope of a slight NNW-SSE ridge. This is a broad subcircular, grass and scrub-covered area with rock outcrop (int. dims 44m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) that slopes down to the NE, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.2-6m; Wth of top 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.5m at NW to 1.5m at SE) with traces of internal stone-facing. There is no visible fosse, but an entrance (Wth of base 2.2) at N might be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 31 July 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2639 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 80.9 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 176,921 m² (17.69 ha, 43.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughan, from 4,462 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres) to 404,826 m² (40.48 ha, 100.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyloughan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jan 2023Conditional
permission to construct a single storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2324
22 Dec 2022N/a
permission consisting of the construction of a single storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22526
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyloughan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyloughan.
Architectural heritage
- Lough Fea House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gateway to Lough Fea, erected c.1850, comprising pair of square-plan dressed limestone piers with moulded cornices and with stepped caps topped by ball finials. Set back from road at most southerly entrance to Lough Fea.Double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate, flanked by matching railings, set between rubble stone boundary walls.Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge inside gateway, having partly blocked former door opening to front (west) elevation and extension to rear elevation. Now in use as house and having pitched slate roofs with plain timber bargeboards and red brick chimneystack, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with rough rubble dressings to surrounds, and having replacement timber windows and doors.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyloughan, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2639 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyloughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyloughan · Baile an Locháin
- Area
- 808,567 m² (80.86 ha, 199.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheracloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Lough Fea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 686 people lived in 234 households in the Lough Fea electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghlattacru, Doohatty, Leons Beg, Leonsgarve or Leons (McKenna), Liscorran, Magheraboy, Mokeeran, Nure Beg, Nure More
- Placenames
- Ballyloughan 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.