Ballycore

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycore, from 2,196 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 94,698 m² (9.47 ha, 23.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycore 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.

• 4 Jun 2026Conditional

  renovation of existing dwelling with new single storey extension, amendments to relevant elevations, changes to boundary/entrance, upgrade of existing septic tank to WWTP and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660173

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  1) construct a 5 bay portal frame feed/hay store 2) demolish existing galvanised grain bin, along with adjacent 3 bay shed with lean-to 3) to construct a 4 bay machinery storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18274

• 26 Jun 2018Conditional

  ten year permission for a solar farm on a site of approximately 51.38 hectares consisting of the following: up to 216,000 m2 of solar photo-voltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames to generate between 35MW to 50MW of electrical energy; substation and control room and associated hard standing; 14 no. inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables & ducts; boundary security fence; CCTV cameras; upgraded internal access tracks; new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; provision of passing areas on lands adjacent to the L-11261 local road; access will be via the L-11261 local road through the upgrade of an existing agricultural entrance and at the existing entrance to Middleton House; and temporary construction compounds and all associated site services & works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18135

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 Ballycore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycore.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycore.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballycore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballycore · Baile Cóir

Area

596,262 m² (59.63 ha, 147.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killashee, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Killashee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

487 people lived in 185 households in the Killashee electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Begnagh, Clogher and Rinn, Cloonard, Corragarrow, Middleton, Newtown, Treanboy

Placenames

Ballycore 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.