Ballyglass

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 245 m² to 302,431 m² (30.24 ha, 74.73 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.

• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) change use of ground floor commercial retail shell, to two number 2 bedroom short term tourist accommodation; (2) carry out alterations to elevations and, (3) connect to all public services and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360129

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bonet River 001404

Recorded monuments

• LE007-039001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located in a slight col of a N-S outcrop ridge, overlooking the head of a S-N valley just to the W and with a steeper valley to the E. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (at S: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m), with internal and external facing-stones and some bushes, which is reduced to a stony scarp W-NW and is absent at N. There is an external fosse or ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 0.25m) E-S and a causewayed entrance (Wth 1.2m) at SSE. Souterrain (LE007-039002-) is in the interior. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-039002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a slight col of a N-S outcrop ridge, overlooking the head of a S-N valley just to the W and with a steeper valley to the E. A stone-lined depression (L 5.8m; Wth 2.2m; D 0.4m) aligned N-S is in the N interior of cashel (LE007-03901--). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-040 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Marked only on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fulacht Fian’ in gothic lettering, although the precise location is not marked. It is on the NE bank of a NW-SE stream in an undulating landscape and now planted with coniferous trees. Described in the 1940s (OSFM) as a conical mound of broken and burnt stone and black earth (diam. c. 3.5m; H c. 1m). It was not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture or forestry and its exact location is not known. All the area is now planted in forestry (Bing c. 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-041 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on an E-facing slope with an E-W section of a small NW-SE stream immediately to the N. Overgrown circular area (int. diam. 26m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (at ENE: Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m) with occasional facing-stones visible, and an outer fosse suggested by lush vegetation E-S. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE007-042----) is c. 130m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a steep E-facing slope with a small W-E stream c. 15m to the S and a NW-SE stream c. 35m to the NE. This is a circular grass-covered platform (diam. 24m) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.15-0.25m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. Cashel (LE007-041----) is c. 130m to the NNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyglass.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1365 (ZIP).

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 Ballyglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

1,229,952 m² (123 ha, 303.93 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Lurganboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lurganboy electoral division: 444 people in 169 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrackpark, Cartronatemple, Lisnabrack, Mountainthird, Nure, Poundhill, Twigspark

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.