Ballybranigan

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybranigan, from 23 m² to 198,972 m² (19.9 ha, 49.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ballybranigan 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.

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  miscellaneous alterations and refurbishments of the existing two storey residential protected structure (RPS: 93), including inter alia:- (i) alterations to rear accommodations to facilitate the construction of a new ground floor rear entrance lobby and the extension of the rear first floor landing area to accommodate a double height space with roof lights, (ii) extension of the eastern ground floor accommodations into the attached rear garage area to create an additional living room (with attic accommodation over at first floor level), (iii) insertion of new east facing patio doors and new conservation roof lights above into the rear pitched roof areas, (iv) re roofing of pitched roof areas, (v) conservation and structural repair of the external outbuildings forming the rear courtyard area, (vi) installation of new M&E services throughout the property, including a new kitchen/utility at ground floor level and a new bathroom, service area and en suite at first floor level, and (vii) insertion of a new proprietary sewerage treatment system with percolation area, within the grounds, including inter alia, works and alterations to facilitate all necessary site services. The existing use of the overall accommodations will remain unchanged

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660021

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a storage shed type structure, which will be used in conjunction with existing onsite haulage & warehousing business, & which is proposed to be constructed within the confines of an existing concrete structure which was formally used as storage bays for previous concrete batching plant and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560050

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  of existing single storey habitable accommodation as currently constructed that was previously granted full planning permission for use as stables under planning reference number PL16/201 whereby retention permission is now being sought for an existing wastewater treatment system with polishing filter which services the existing development and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2460230

• 21 Dec 2023Unconditional

  of 19/70, proposed demolition of existing concrete structure formally used as storage bays for previous Concrete Batching Plant together with the proposed construction of a warehouse for use as part of existing Haulage & Warehousing Business and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 23119

• 23 Apr 2021Refused

  mobile home type dwelling to upgrade the existing septic tank & percolation area which currently services the adjacent family home. Connection for proposed mobile home to upgraded septic tank & percolation area. Use of existing access entrance to the proposed mobile home & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21116

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing concrete structure formally used as storage bays for previous Concrete Batching Plant together with the proposed construction of a warehouse for use as part of existing Haulage & Warehousing Business and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1970

• 20 Dec 2018Refused

  the proposed conversion of an existing single storey stable building into a habitable dwelling together with the proposed construction of a second storey habitable extension, car port, domestic garage, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18305

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  the retention of an existing car sales/repair workshop together with existing associated car park area to the front of same for display of vehicles for sale & storage yard to the rear together with seeking full planning permission for the retention and completion of existing partially constructed lean to extension to the side of existing car sales/repair workshop, all of which are associated with this existing established business and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18299

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: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF023-109001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope. A raised oval area (c. 63m E-W; c. 46m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.8m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse, an entrance feature at SE and the remains of two possible house sites (LF023-109002-; LF023-109003-) at the centre of the interior and to the SE of it. These features are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF023-109002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Near the centre of the interior of a rath (LF023-109001-). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the remains of this possible house, indicated by a stony outcrop. Another possible house (LF023-109003-) was evident to the SE of the centre. They are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 October 2012

• LF027-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Close to the base of the SW-facing slope of a ridge. A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicated that this subrectangular raised area (c. 48m E-W; c. 40m N-S) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.7m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.2m) is evident at NW. The monument is cut by a field boundary at WSW and N. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Chaigneau Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Squared rubble limestone construction to spandrel walls, partially rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets (partially rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Cut limestone plaques (on square-plan) having moulded raised margins to parapets inscribed ‘Chaigneau Bridge’. Towpath to east bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Wrought-iron turnstile gate under bridge to towpath. Canal widens to the south to form harbour (Ballybranigan Harbour); dressed limestone walls to sides of harbour. Three-storey former canal stores to the southeast side of harbour. Located to the north of Ballymahon.

• Office, store/warehouse, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey former harbour stores associated with the Royal Canal, built c. 1815, now disused. Possibly also formerly in use as a ticket house with associated waiting room(s). Pitched natural slate roof with cut limestone eaves course. Roughcast rendered finish over roughly coursed limestone walls with flush dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Wrought-iron security bars to as number of window openings. Central shallow segmental-headed door opening to front elevation (northwest) having red brick voussoirs and block-and-start surround, dressed limestone plinth blocks to base. Set adjacent to Royal Canal, to the southeast of Chaigneau Bridge (13402349), and to the north of Ballymahon. Canal widens to the southwest of bridge to form canal harbour (Ballybranigan Harbour). Dressed limestone coping to canal bank to southwest bank of canal and adjacent to former stores.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving two-storey house (not in survey), erected c. 1860, comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) and a pair of hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates. Sections of rubble limestone boundary wall to northwest and southeast sides of gateway. Set slightly back from road to the north of Ballymahon, and to south of associated house at start of long approach avenue.

• Antely House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860 or built/rebuilt/altered c. 1890, having single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the name elevation (south) and single-storey and two-storey returns/extensions to the rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof to main block with overhanging bracketed eaves, decorative timber bargeboards to gable ends (east and west), overhanging eaves supported by timber console brackets, decorative timber bargeboards to gable ends, pierced terracotta ridge cresting and a central pair of red brick chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Pitched natural slate roof and rendered chimneystack to the return/extension to the east; pitched and hipped natural slate roof to return to the west having red brick chimneystack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed/roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered quoin strips to corners of main block and smooth rendered string course/platband between floors to front elevation. Red brick construction to porch having chamfered dressed limestone plinth, dressed limestone block-and-start quoins to the corners, corbelled cut limestone eaves course and moulded cut limestone label moulding over doorway. Rendered blind round-headed niches to the east gable end of main block at ground floor level. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and tripartite timber casement (multi-paned at first floor level). Paired timber sliding sash windows to west gable end. Wrought- and cast-iron window guards to ground floor window openings, front elevation (south). Segmental-headed door opening to front face of porch (south) with limestone threshold, timber panelled door and overlight. Set back from road in mature landscaped grounds to the north of Ballymahon. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear having pitched slate and corrugated-metal roofs, roughcast and smooth rendered walls and square-headed openings having timber casement and timber sash windows, and timber battened doors. Landscaped garden to front and southeast elevation, the latter accessed by wrought-iron pedestrian gate having cast-iron gate posts. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the west. Main gateway to the west comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts on octagonal-plan having shallow pyramidal heads and double leaf cast-iron gates.

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 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_1737 (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 Ballybranigan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballybranigan · Baile Uí Bhranagáin

Area

1,144,564 m² (114.46 ha, 282.83 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymahon, Ballymulvey, Drinan, Tipper, Toome

Placenames

Ballybranigan 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.