# Ballybeg, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Taghsheenod, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish An Baile Beag.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,006,087 m² (100.61 ha, 248.61 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,169 m² (4.62 ha, 11.41 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Taghsheenod, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/taghsheenod.md
- Barony: Moydow
- Electoral division: Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32732
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130099
- Centre: latitude 53.631513, longitude -7.705621 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 12,272 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres) to 253,181 m² (25.32 ha, 62.56 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 60173: 253,181 m² (25.32 ha, 62.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60173.md
- Parcel 73776: 155,901 m² (15.59 ha, 38.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73776.md
- Parcel 66073: 146,508 m² (14.65 ha, 36.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66073.md
- Parcel 63025: 102,466 m² (10.25 ha, 25.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63025.md
- Parcel 63880: 46,169 m² (4.62 ha, 11.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63880.md
- Parcel 63771: 23,933 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63771.md
- Parcel 71345: 23,190 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71345.md
- Parcel 68923: 12,287 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68923.md
- Parcel 58668: 12,272 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58668.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybeg 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Ballybeg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Ballybeg.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF023-014001: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-014001-. On the E-facing slope of a low ridge in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a tree-covered irregular enclosure formed at the junction of a number of field boundaries. It is represented on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) as a circular tree-covered enclosure. It consists of a low hillock (40m NNE-SSW; 38m WNW-ESE) enclosed from E-S-N by a bank of earth and stone and elsewhere defined by a scarp, both of which have been extensively modified and incorporated into the field boundary. From S-W-N there is a shallow fosse at the outer foot of the bank. No entrance is recognisable. At the inner face of the bank at W are the remains of a subrectangular enclosure (LF023-014002-) In addition, a report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a house site (LF023-014003-) at the inner face of the bank at N. In all probability this is a designed landscape feature associated with Richmount Hill house, c. 320m to SE. Another landscape feature (LF021-015----) lies 220m to SSW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF023-014002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-014002-. Within Ballybeg tree-ring (LF023-014001-). At the inner face of the bank at W are the remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure (6.3m E-W; 5.8m N-S) of uncertain date. It is defined by a bank of earth and stone (H 1m) and access is via a gap (Wth 1.6m) at E. There is a second possible enclosure (LF023-014003-) to NNE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF023-014003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-014003-. Within Ballybeg tree-ring (LF010-023001-). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a house site (LF023-014003-) at the inner face of the bank at N. A possible rectangular enclosure (c. 6.1m NNE-SSW; c. 3.5m ENE-WSW) can be traced, albeit with difficultly, extending into the interior from the inner face of the bank at NNW. The other three sides are defined by fragmentary remains of grassed-over loose stone. A short length of possible walling (L 0.3m) on the ENE side is the best preserved (wall T. 0.2m). Immediately ENE of the possible enclosure is a small, low, approx. circular, largely grassed over mound of stones (2m ENE-WSW; 1.9m NNW-SSE). It is likely that these features are associated with the construction of the field boundary rather than enclosures or structures. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF023-015: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-015----. On the N-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. An 18th-century house, named ‘Richmount Hill’, is c. 195m to the SE. Marked on the 1837 and 1914 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a large roughly subrectangular tree plantation (int. dims. c. 67m N–S ; c. 41m E–W). It is defined by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a tree-lined scarp (H 0.5m) with evidence of external stone facing visible in places. There is no evidence of an entrance. An enclosure/building (LF023-015001-) lies in the W half of the interior. (SMR file 1976) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 13 November 2012
- LF023-015001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-015001-. Within the W half of a designed landscape feature (LF023-015----). Marked as a roughly D-shaped enclosure on the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch map with the straight side, running NNW-SSE, defined by the limits of the tree plantation. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as a ‘square structure’ defined by grass-covered stony banks (H1.5-2m); possibly the site of a castle or later building. It consists of an earthen bank enclosing a sunken square-shaped interior; there is no evidence of any enclosing element on the W side. The entrance is not apparent. The high steep-sided external face of the bank on the S side suggests that the enclosure may have been partially quarried or cut away in the 18th or 19th centuries. The dating of this monument is uncertain. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 November 2012
- LF023-017: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-017----. On a knoll in gently undulating pasture. A raised oval area (c. 43m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2.4m) with a wide, deep, partially rock-cut, external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1m), which is identifiable only from SW-N-NNE. The original entrance is not recognisable. 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 Ballybeg.

## 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 Ballybeg, 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: 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 Ballybeg.
- 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/ballybeg.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballybeg.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballybeg.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballybeg 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)

- Ballygibbagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballygibbagh.md
- Carn: https://everytownland.com/longford/carn.md
- Carrickedmond: https://everytownland.com/longford/carrickedmond.md
- Keel: https://everytownland.com/longford/keel-130578.md
- Knocknaskea: https://everytownland.com/longford/knocknaskea.md
- Screeboge: https://everytownland.com/longford/screeboge.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.

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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/ballybeg
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ballybeg