Ballymacforban

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacforban, from 100 m² to 106,254 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballymacforban 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  permission for the development will consist of the construction of 1 No. Two storey dwelling, 1 No. detached single storey domestic garage, provision of a new effluent treatment system with associated percolation area, formation of a new access onto an existing private laneway, improvement of the existing site entrance onto the public road, together with all associated site development works. The application includes the provision of a mobile home to be used as living accommodation on a temporary basis

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660163

• 7 Oct 2025N/a

  permission for the demolition of an existing two storey dwelling and outhouse, the construction of 1 No. Two storey replacement dwelling, provision of new effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all ancillary site works. The application includes the provision of a mobile home to be used as living accommodation on a temporary basis

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560401

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 Ballymacforban.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacforban.

Architectural heritage

• Ballinagall Orange Hall, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay Orange hall, dated 1887, having gabled porch to front (north) elevation and central return to rear. Now in use as domestic shed. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge-crests and finial, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls, ruled-and-lined to porch and west elevation. Tooled dressed limestone name and shield-shaped date-plaques, having peck-dressed recessed panels, to front of porch. Square-headed window openings, with tooled sandstone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of porch and rear return, having timber panelled doors. Boundary hedge enclosing site, terminating in stretch of recent, overgrown, boundary wall with timber traffic gate to north-east.

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 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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2374 (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 Ballymacforban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Ballymacforban · Baile Mhic Fhearbáin

Area

445,810 m² (44.58 ha, 110.16 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Rackwallace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanagall, Corlat, Corness, Drumhirk, Dunaldron

Placenames

Ballymacforban 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.