Ballinrooey

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrooey, from 532 m² to 330,349 m² (33.03 ha, 81.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballinrooey 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.

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  the proposed extension and internal renovation to an existing single-storey dwelling. The proposal includes the demolition of the existing detached outbuilding and its replacement with a more coherent integrated extension to the dwelling, improving the layout, visual order of the site, and overall residential amenity, proposed domestic garage a suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660201

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  upgrade of existing septic tank as new treatment plant system and ancillary works. Temporary Permission is also sought for mobile home to rear of existing dwelling house including connection to existing/proposed services and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660064

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of an agricultural machinery storage shed and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21315

• 20 Aug 2020Conditional

  5 bay shed to cover existing outdoor cattle handling facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20187

• 27 Aug 2019Refused

  to construct a storey and half type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, sewage treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19219

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: Lough Gowna 000992

Recorded monuments

• LF006-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in moderately drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballinrooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballinrooey · Baile an Rú

Area

2,038,354 m² (203.84 ha, 503.69 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeylara, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Sonnagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sonnagh electoral division: 266 people in 114 households; 79% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinulty Lower, Cranally, Culray, Rathbrackan, Tober

Placenames

Ballinrooey 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.