Ballabony
Ballabony is a townland in the civil parish of Clonkeen, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Bealach Boinne.
Parcel 5159849
- Area
- 1,267 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballabony
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Reaghstown Marsh 001828
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 109.8 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 2,543 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballabony, from 186 m² to 464,839 m² (46.48 ha, 114.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballabony 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
12 May 2025Conditional
(1) Retention of dwelling house granted under planning Ref. No. 85/181 including (2) Retention of location and orientation of dwelling house (3) Retention of site boundaries (4) Retention of location of septic tank and all associated Site Works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560267
10 Apr 2025N/a
Retention Permission for development at Ballabony, Ardee, Co. Louth. The development will consist of (1) Retention of Dwelling house granted under planning Ref. No. 85/181 including (2) Retention of location and orientation of dwelling house (3) Retention of site boundaries (4) Retention of location of septic tank and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560209
8 Oct 2024Conditional
Retention permission for 1 no. timber horse stable (24.6sqm), associated concrete access steps and apron, upgrading of existing site entrance including hard standing area and associated site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460599
25 May 2022Conditional
Retention permission for the demolition of a small rear extension and retention of a single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing single storey dwelling, alterations and additions to elevations and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 19/04/2023 to include provision of a waste water treatment system, provision of a soak away and all associated site works*
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22412
18 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of decommission of existing septic tank, construction of new waste water treatment system to serve existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21295
6 Feb 2019Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a six bay slatted shed with cubicles.
Permission · Louth County Council, 1962
30 Nov 2017Refused
FURTHER EXTENSION OF DURATION REF: 12/530 & PARENT PLANNING REF: 07/1535 (P) two storey dwelling house, detached dormer style domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, roadside entrance and all associated works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17881
6 Nov 2017Conditional
Permission for development will consist of a new loose bedded shed with calving pens area and underground slurry storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 17822
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Reaghstown Marsh 001828
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballabony.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballabony.
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 Ballabony, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballabony.
- 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 Ballabony with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ballabony · Bealach Boinne
- Area
- 1,098,358 m² (109.84 ha, 271.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Clonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 711 people lived in 234 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crowmartin, Edmondstown, Rathgeenan, Tullakeel, Tully
- Placenames
- Ballabony 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.