Ballyclamay
Townland in the civil parish of Forgney, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish Baile Mhic Conmeá
- Area
- 166.9 ha
- 412 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 17,607 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyclamay, from 1,733 m² to 161,153 m² (16.12 ha, 39.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyclamay 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Apr 2026Conditional
construction of 3 bay single slatted shed with creep area, underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2660103
9 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of a three bay single slatted shed with creep area, underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20146
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyclamay.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyclamay.
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron post box, cast c. 1890, having 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base, now illegible. Set into rendered pier adjacent to rural crossroad junction at Ballyclamy. Located to the southeast of Ballymahon, and to the southeast of Forgney Roman Catholic church (13402726)
- House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c. 1880, now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, diminishing one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and smooth rendered reveals. Central segmental-headed door opening with smooth rendered reveal, timber panelled door and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Ballymahon, close to the border with County Westmeath. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to rear having pitched corrugated-metal roof, smooth cement rendered walls and square-headed openings. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the north. Gateway to front of house comprising a wrought-iron gate having cast-iron gate posts. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to rear.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyclamay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyclamay · Baile Mhic Conmeá
- Area
- 1,668,795 m² (166.88 ha, 412.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Forgney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Forgney, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornamucklagh, Forgney, Moyvore (Co. Westmeath), Pottiaghan Commons (Co. Westmeath), Shinglis (Co. Westmeath)
- Placenames
- Ballyclamay on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.