Ballyclamay

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyclamay.

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 Ballyclamay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

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

Census 2022

Forgney electoral division: 3,066 people in 189 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

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. 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.