Ballymeeny
Ballymeeny is a townland in the civil parish of Easky, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Mhaonaigh.
Parcel 764743
- Area
- 41,160 m² (4.12 ha, 10.17 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 912 m².
- 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
- Ballymeeny
Planning applications on this parcel
25 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18205
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- SL011-081001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on slight E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m), with an external fosse (Wth 4.25m; D 0.45m) which is evident only as a very shallow depression at NNW-NNE. At SW-NW there is a break in the bank and immediately outside this a NNW-SSE field wall overlies the line of the fosse. There is gentle slope down from W to E in the E half of the interior. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL011-081002 Hut site
Description
At a rath (SL011-081001-). On inspection in 2003 no trace of a hut site could be found. There is no local tradition to indicate the presence of a hut site within this rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 43.9 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 18,093 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymeeny, from 133 m² to 61,822 m² (6.18 ha, 15.28 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 Ballymeeny 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
7 Mar 2022Conditional
development consisting of permission for the following: (1) Construct dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area (2) Construct domestic garage/shed (3) Carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2286
25 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18205
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymeeny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymeeny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymeeny.
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 Ballymeeny, about 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymeeny.
- 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 Ballymeeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymeeny · Baile Uí Mhaonaigh
- Area
- 438,780 m² (43.88 ha, 108.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Easky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Easky East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 626 people lived in 253 households in the Easky East electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alternan Park, Ballymeeny (Armstrong), Ballymeeny (Jones), Carrownabinna or Ballymeeny (Hillas), Killeenduff
- Placenames
- Ballymeeny 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.