# Ballydrum, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish Béal Átha Droma. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 747,810 m² (74.78 ha, 184.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,223 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killashee, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/killashee.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Killashee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33245 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130108 - Centre: latitude 53.691509, longitude -7.892738 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydrum, from 173 m² to 212,293 m² (21.23 ha, 52.46 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 54185: 212,293 m² (21.23 ha, 52.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54185.md - Parcel 54734: 146,556 m² (14.66 ha, 36.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54734.md - Parcel 81743: 86,148 m² (8.61 ha, 21.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81743.md - Parcel 5974871: 81,513 m² (8.15 ha, 20.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5974871.md - Parcel 80888: 75,885 m² (7.59 ha, 18.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80888.md - Parcel 79990: 70,794 m² (7.08 ha, 17.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79990.md - Parcel 79991: 22,668 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79991.md - Parcel 68449: 14,379 m² (1.44 ha, 3.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68449.md - Parcel 4986276: 13,223 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4986276.md - Parcel 68450: 11,954 m² (1.2 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68450.md - Parcel 77909: 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77909.md - Parcel 68974: 1,575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/68974.md - Parcel 3766299: 1,416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766299.md - Parcel 54186: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54186.md - Parcel 52680: 1,081 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/52680.md - Parcel 64595: 501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/64595.md - Parcel 5979857: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5979857.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballydrum 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) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Apr 2019, Longford County Council 19103: Conditional. Permission. erect an extension to club house to include dressing rooms, toilets, gym, a new gravel walking track, ticket office, viewing stand and car parking facilities and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19103/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydrum. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballydrum Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401342, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401342. Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rendered finish (partially failing) over dressed rubble stone construction with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rendered finish over dressed rubble stone construction to parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to west bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Located to the south of Cloondara ## 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 Ballydrum, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballydrum. - 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/ballydrum.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballydrum.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballydrum.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydrum 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) - Cloonmore: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonmore.md - Cloonsellan: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonsellan.md - Corragarrow: https://everytownland.com/longford/corragarrow-130373.md - Killashee and Aghakeeran: https://everytownland.com/longford/killashee-and-aghakeeran.md - Killeeny: https://everytownland.com/longford/killeeny.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/longford/newtown-130778.md - Templeton Glebe: https://everytownland.com/longford/templeton-glebe.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. --- 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/ballydrum - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ballydrum