Balladian

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balladian, from 92 m² to 169,267 m² (16.93 ha, 41.83 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Balladian 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.

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)), and all associated site works at Cumry, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660073

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  permission for the construction of an agricultural building with a slurry storage tank under within an existing farm complex and all other associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460462

• 4 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 239015

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of; erect a two storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, close existing entrance & form new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21692

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18481

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 Balladian.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balladian.

Architectural heritage

• Balladian Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over Dromore River, built c.1830. Elliptical arches with cut peck-dressed limestone voussoirs, and squared coursed and snecked rubble stone soffits. Squared limestone parapet walls, with rusticated copings, stretching to north and south, covering extensive flood plains to east and west. V-shaped cutwaters of coursed squared stones to east and west elevations.

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 Balladian, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379 (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 Balladian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Balladian · Béal Átha an Daingin

Area

1,089,481 m² (108.95 ha, 269.22 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybay, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaneese, Bowelk, Corwillin, Cumry, Derryvally, Drumhillagh, Edenaneane

Placenames

Balladian 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.