Ballintoppan

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintoppan, from 7,594 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres) to 208,882 m² (20.89 ha, 51.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballintoppan 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.

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a milking parlour, meal bin and holding yard with underground slurry storage tank. Development will include the demolition of existing outhouse & the conversion of existing shed into dairy together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18207

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 Ballintoppan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintoppan.

Architectural heritage

• Ballintoppan House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay house, built c.1850, single-storey to front and two-storey to rear (south) elevation. Currently unoccupied. Half-hipped slate roof with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and clay ridge tiles. Harl-rendered walls having rendered plinth course, with tooled stone block-and-start quoins to front (north) elevation. Round-headed window openings to front with tooled stone surrounds, enlarged keystones and tooled stone sills, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and having timber panelled shutters to interior. Square-headed window openings to side elevations having tooled stone surrounds, sills and timber sliding sash windows: one-over-one pane to east, one-over-six pane to west. Square-headed replacement timber windows to rear, with render and masonry sills, some boarded up. Three-centred-arch door opening to front, having tooled stone block-and-start surround and voussoirs, with double-leaf timber door with pointed-arch panels having spandrel details, paned sidelights, and spoked fanlight. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber battened door. Set in garden with double-leaf wrought-iron gate with square-plan rendered piers to east of house.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballintoppan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Ballintoppan · Mullach an tSopáin

Area

343,332 m² (34.33 ha, 84.84 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Drumhillagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumhillagh electoral division: 716 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghernagh, Cornafaghy, Crockcumberland, Killycoghill, Magherarny, Tulleevin

Placenames

Ballintoppan 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.