Ballintemple

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintemple, from 5 m² to 106,818 m² (10.68 ha, 26.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ballintemple 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.

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  to erect a fully serviced bungalow type dwelling with integrated carport, form new entrance, install sewage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460325

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 Ballintemple.

Recorded monuments

• CV031-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An earlier report (OPW 1974) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at N probably represented original entrance. Site has been levelled. 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

• CV031-007001 Church
  Description

  Formerly situated within an irregularly shaped graveyard, on a cliff above the River Erne and probably originally beside a ford. According to Davies (1948,80) the church was unroofed in the early 17th century and a new one built on the opposite side of the road in 1821. He noted a few blocks of dressed ashlar in the old graveyard. No visible remains 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

• CV031-007002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV031-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep, intermediate fosse. Outer face of outer bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Inner bank is very substantial. Break in inner bank at NE with remains of accompanying causeway probably represents original entrance. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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

• St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival hall-and-tower Church of Ireland church, built 1821, with three-bay nave, three-stage tower to the west elevation, vestry to north, and chancel added to east in 1931. Pitched slate roof having raised cut stone barges, cut stone eaves continuous as plat band across gables and tower. Sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Vestry chimneystack over gablet to nave wall constructed of stone blocks with plat band and surmounted by tall octagonal-profile clay pots. Replacement roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Tower surmounted by crenellated parapet with limestone ashlar corner crenels, corbel table and plat bands between stages. Cut stone plaque above entrance door reads 'This Church was Built by the / Parish of Ballintemple / for the Service of God. Anna domini / 1821 / Wm Magenis A.M. Dean of / Kilmore and Vicar of Ballintem- / ple. Revd James Pollock A.M. / curate'. Pointed arch window openings having hood mouldings and dressed chamfered limestone surrounds with chamfered sill and second projecting sill beneath. Twin trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil over and lattice glazing to most windows. Square-headed openings to vestry, east gable, and second stage of tower. Timber intersecting tracery to chancel window with stained glass c.1950. Pointed-arch door openings having hood mouldings and dressed limestone chamfered surrounds with sheeted timber doors. Sheeted timber louvres with scalloped trim to upper stage of tower. Internally open ceiling with replacement trusses, gallery over entrance, carved timber pulpit, altar 1931, and pews. Cut stone wall monument dated 1713 with Flemming family crest relocated from Fleming’s Folly to wall of nave. Cut stone spiral stairs to tower. Set back from the road and bounded by rubble stone walls with soldier copings. Hexagonal-profile ashlar stone gate piers and wrought-iron gates. Surrounded by graveyard with cut-stone grave markers including three mausolea with crenellated parapet along boundary wall. Earlier graveyard sited across the road.

• School, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former school, built c.1850, with projecting entrance porch, having two-bay two-storey block added to south, 1925. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with cornice detail to south bays. Roof to north supported by rafters with carved ends and having plain rendered chimneystack to gable. Sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to north bays and smooth render to south bays. Timber plaque to north bays reading “Ballintemple National School” and cut stone plaque to south bays reading “Erected by Rev. R.J. Walker 1925”. Square-headed openings with cut and dressed stone sills to windows. Bipartite arrangement with timber mullions and four-over-four timber sash windows to north bays. Two-over-two timber sashes to southern bays. Glazed and timber door to north bays and sheeted timber door to side of entrance porch.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballintemple.

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 Ballintemple with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Ballintemple · Baile an Teampaill

Area

1,390,192 m² (139.02 ha, 343.52 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Ballintemple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintemple electoral division: 431 people in 147 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaweely Upper, Derrylane, Drumlion, Garrymore, Knockanore, Lisnananagh, Shancor, Shannow Lower

Placenames

Ballintemple 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.