Ballyhoolivan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoolivan, from 148 m² to 100,932 m² (10.09 ha, 24.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ballyhoolivan 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 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a 4 bay double slatted shed, and all ancillary works. Planning on this site was previously granted under planning reference 08/591.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1892

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 Ballyhoolivan.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 25.2m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.2-0.8m) with a wide, shallow, intervening fosse (Wth 6.2m; D 0.3m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.8m; H 0.3m). From SSE-W-NNE the inner bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary and the fosse and outer bank have been levelled. A break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at SSE marks the original entrance. Within the interior are a number of quarry holes and outcropping rock. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hillock in rolling pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 44m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance may have been either at NNE or NNW. At the centre of the interior was an area of outcropping rock. The rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level, low-lying pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the only extant remains comprised a low bank of earth and stone extending in an arc from WSW-W-N. This bank has since been levelled and the rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Gates/railings/walls, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Vernacular gateway/field gate, erected c. 1900, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts (on square-plan) having pyramidal heads and with double wrought-iron flat bar gates. Road-fronted in the rural countryside to the south of Ballinalee.

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 Ballyhoolivan, about 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1817 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyhoolivan · Baile Uí Shúileacháin

Area

721,492 m² (72.15 ha, 178.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Moatfarrell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

210 people lived in 70 households in the Moatfarrell electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumnacross, Glannagh, Lisnanagh, Moatfarrell, Newtownbond

Placenames

Ballyhoolivan 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.