Ballygibbagh

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygibbagh, from 144 m² to 72,628 m² (7.26 ha, 17.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballygibbagh 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.

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house with suitable on site sewerage treatment system with percolation area, detached garage together with accessing the proposed dwelling via the existing entrance which already services an existing dwelling house which was granted full planning permission under Pl05/289. Full planning permission is also being sought to access the previously permitted dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under Pl05/289 by reconstructing an existing agricultural entrance to service same and all ancillary site works whereby it is now proposed to increase the site boundaries to match the landowners landholding and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2117

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 Ballygibbagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 42m E-W; c. 28m N-S) defined by a much-degraded scarp (H 0.8-1.8m) with fragmentary remains of modern drystone-facing. There is no trace of a fosse. From NE-S-W the scarp has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. There is a possible house site (LF023-021002-) in the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012

• LF023-021002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the centre of the interior of a rath (LF023-021001-). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a possible house site from which two stone walls extended to the W. Due to dense overgrowth at the time of visit, it was not possible to identify these features. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012

• LF023-109003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the SE quadrant of a rath (LF023-109001-). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the remains of this possible house site. Another possible house (LF023-109002-) was evident near the centre of the interior. They are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 October 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygibbagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygibbagh · An Baile Giobach

Area

308,471 m² (30.85 ha, 76.22 acres)

Civil parish

Taghsheenod, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober (Rock), Ballybeg, Carrickedmond, Screeboge

Placenames

Ballygibbagh 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.