# Ballinrooey, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard, Co. Longford; in Irish Baile an Rú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,038,354 m² (203.84 ha, 503.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,884 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeylara, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/abbeylara.md - Barony: Granard - Electoral division: Sonnagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33016 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130088 - Centre: latitude 53.811151, longitude -7.560437 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrooey, from 532 m² to 330,349 m² (33.03 ha, 81.63 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 71837: 330,349 m² (33.03 ha, 81.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71837.md - Parcel 63906: 204,734 m² (20.47 ha, 50.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63906.md - Parcel 53038: 148,877 m² (14.89 ha, 36.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53038.md - Parcel 64261: 109,412 m² (10.94 ha, 27.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64261.md - Parcel 63908: 106,916 m² (10.69 ha, 26.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63908.md - Parcel 63907: 87,527 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63907.md - Parcel 77970: 82,885 m² (8.29 ha, 20.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77970.md - Parcel 80802: 69,197 m² (6.92 ha, 17.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80802.md - Parcel 57415: 62,673 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57415.md - Parcel 79720: 58,296 m² (5.83 ha, 14.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79720.md - Parcel 55213: 54,434 m² (5.44 ha, 13.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55213.md - Parcel 2500947: 53,294 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2500947.md - Parcel 78233: 52,859 m² (5.29 ha, 13.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78233.md - Parcel 75183: 48,299 m² (4.83 ha, 11.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75183.md - Parcel 52366: 45,612 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52366.md - Parcel 75215: 44,376 m² (4.44 ha, 10.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75215.md - Parcel 63773: 44,271 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63773.md - Parcel 58371: 41,265 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58371.md - Parcel 56246: 39,866 m² (3.99 ha, 9.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56246.md - Parcel 71740: 31,421 m² (3.14 ha, 7.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71740.md - Parcel 2592170: 25,980 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2592170.md - Parcel 54319: 25,118 m² (2.51 ha, 6.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54319.md - Parcel 56662: 18,957 m² (1.9 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56662.md - Parcel 77705: 18,702 m² (1.87 ha, 4.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77705.md - Parcel 59368: 18,228 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59368.md - Parcel 66745: 16,216 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66745.md - Parcel 76209: 15,399 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76209.md - Parcel 77102: 14,551 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77102.md - Parcel 82688: 14,002 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82688.md - Parcel 71700: 13,765 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71700.md - Parcel 74251: 12,273 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74251.md - Parcel 75066: 12,157 m² (1.22 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75066.md - Parcel 2592160: 8,355 m² (0.84 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2592160.md - Parcel 71808: 6,811 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71808.md - Parcel 81906: 6,239 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81906.md - Parcel 5857070: 5,816 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5857070.md - Parcel 57982: 5,374 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57982.md - Parcel 82664: 5,314 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82664.md - Parcel 71838: 5,311 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71838.md - Parcel 5857268: 5,022 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5857268.md - Parcel 60206: 4,530 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60206.md - Parcel 68021: 4,453 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68021.md - Parcel 51744: 4,429 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51744.md - Parcel 64226: 4,398 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64226.md - Parcel 52179: 3,995 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52179.md - Parcel 74589: 3,921 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74589.md - Parcel 4853398: 3,881 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4853398.md - Parcel 5423609: 3,647 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5423609.md - Parcel 3801020: 3,395 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3801020.md - Parcel 60050: 2,689 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60050.md - Parcel 56747: 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56747.md - Parcel 66367: 2,452 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66367.md - Parcel 5856968: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5856968.md - Parcel 59385: 1,658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/59385.md - Parcel 55379: 1,317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55379.md - Parcel 54796: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54796.md - Parcel 54254: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54254.md - Parcel 84254: 532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/84254.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 26 Jun 2026, Longford County Council 2660201: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660201/0 - 27 Feb 2026, Longford County Council 2660064: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660064/0 - 3 Nov 2021, Longford County Council 21315: Conditional. Permission. the proposed construction of an agricultural machinery storage shed and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21315/0 - 20 Aug 2020, Longford County Council 20187: Conditional. Permission. 5 bay shed to cover existing outdoor cattle handling facilities and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/20187/0 - 27 Aug 2019, Longford County Council 19219: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19219/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna, site code 000992 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF006-055: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF006-055----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinrooey. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinrooey.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinrooey.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinrooey.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballinrooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinulty Lower: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinulty-lower.md - Cranally: https://everytownland.com/longford/cranally.md - Culray: https://everytownland.com/longford/culray.md - Rathbrackan: https://everytownland.com/longford/rathbrackan.md - Tober: https://everytownland.com/longford/tober.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinrooey - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ballinrooey