# Balloo, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Baile Lú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,092,011 m² (109.2 ha, 269.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,400 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Street, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/street.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Coolamber, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 397 people lived in 131 households in the Coolamber electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32847 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130098 - Centre: latitude 53.720665, longitude -7.471939 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloo, from 636 m² to 388,205 m² (38.82 ha, 95.93 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 52040: 388,205 m² (38.82 ha, 95.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52040.md - Parcel 56603: 225,072 m² (22.51 ha, 55.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56603.md - Parcel 69144: 174,204 m² (17.42 ha, 43.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69144.md - Parcel 69442: 98,333 m² (9.83 ha, 24.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69442.md - Parcel 73502: 74,143 m² (7.41 ha, 18.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73502.md - Parcel 70718: 50,548 m² (5.05 ha, 12.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70718.md - Parcel 53670: 33,613 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53670.md - Parcel 83657: 14,432 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/83657.md - Parcel 52379: 14,400 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52379.md - Parcel 74239: 3,644 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74239.md - Parcel 55062: 3,083 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55062.md - Parcel 54072: 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54072.md - Parcel 58117: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58117.md - Parcel 54087: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54087.md - Parcel 55492: 1,995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55492.md - Parcel 84745: 1,082 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/84745.md - Parcel 84746: 636 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/84746.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Balloo 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) 1 application, newest first. - 18 Mar 2021, Longford County Council 2176: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a 24 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd existing telecommunications and broadband network. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2176/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balloo. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF016-016: Barrow - mound barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF016-016----. On a low rise in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small tree-ring. An oval-shaped mound of earth and stone (dims. at base 14.5m E-W; 11m N-S; H 1.7-1.9m). The summit is flat topped (diam. 6.3m). There is no trace of an encircling bank or fosse. Probably a burial mound. 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 Balloo. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Balloo, about 1 in 10 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: 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 the townland of Balloo. - 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/balloo.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/balloo.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/balloo.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Balloo 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) - Ballew (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballew.md - Coolamber: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolamber.md - Coolamber (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/coolamber.md - Kilfintan: https://everytownland.com/longford/kilfintan.md - Lisryan: https://everytownland.com/longford/lisryan.md - Moneyhoolaghan: https://everytownland.com/longford/moneyhoolaghan.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/balloo - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/balloo