Ballykenny

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykenny, from 36 m² to 614,793 m² (61.48 ha, 151.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballykenny 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.

• 18 Mar 2026N/a

  proposed demolition of existing agricultural shed together with the proposed construction of a 5 bay slatted shed with underground effluent storage tanks

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660086

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  proposed demolition of existing agricultural shed together with the proposed construction of a 5 bay slatted shed with underground effluent storage tanks

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660083

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  (i) Construction of a Stationary Battery Energy Storage Facility which includes eighteen 20ft containers and five medium voltage transformers, (ii) Construction of a single storey substation building along with a GRP kiosk and an acoustic fence and (iii) All associated site and development works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560203

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a silage pit with retaining walls and concrete apron together with the proposed construction of a meal storage shed together with roofing of an existing silage pit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20213

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  for a 25 year permission for a solar farm up to 19 Ha with an export capacity of approximately 9MW comprising of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames, a single storey DNO building, customer room, control building, storage container, HV kiosk, switch gear housing and 6 no. inverter transformer enclosures, ducting and electrical cabling, perimeter fencing, mounted CCTV cameras, new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure and all associated site works at Ballkenny, Co Longford. Please Note: this site is adjacent to the existing ESB Richmond Electricity Substation. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. The Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19222

• 17 Jul 2018Refused

  the development of a battery energy storage system (BESS) within a total site area of up to 0.41 hectares, to include 1 no. single storey electrical substation building, 1 no. customer switchgear container, 9 no. electrical inverter/transformer station modules (SKIDS), 6 no. containerised battery storage modules on concrete support structures, 12 no. heating, ventilation and air conditioning units (HVAC units), access tracks and upgraded site entrance, associated electrical cabling and ducting, security gates, perimeter security fencing, CCTV security monitoring system, landscaping works and all associated ancillary infrastructure on land

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18157

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

• LF013-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep NE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This rath has been largely levelled due to bulldozing. The extant remains comprise a slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a levelled bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 4m; max. H 0.25m) with an infilled external fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low circular mound (diam. c. 8m), of unknown significance, immediately to the NE of the centre of the interior. This mound is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF013-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep ENE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a slightly raised oval area (c. 38m N-S; c. 33m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballykenny Bridge, bridge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge over the Camlin River, built c. 1860. Segmental-headed arch with dressed limestone V-jointed voussoirs. Squared rock-faced limestone spandrel walls, abutments and wing walls. Dressed squared limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed limestone string course at arch springing point, running under barrel. Squared rock-faced limestone to parapets with rounded dressed limestone coping over. Bridge largely overgrown with vegetation. Located to the southwest of Newtown-Forbes.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over raised basement (to rear_, built c. 1840, with single-bay two-storey flat-roofed return to rear (west). Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots. Roughcast rendered finish over squared roughly coursed rubble limestone construction, render removed from front elevation (east). Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, roughly dressed limestone surrounds and lintels, and replacement windows. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (east) with roughly dressed limestone surrounds, replacement timber panelled door and having petal fanlight over with stained glass detailing. Doorway reached by flight of concrete steps flanked to either side by decorative wrought-iron railings. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the northwest of Longford town, with garden to front. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to yard to rear (west) with corrugated-metal roof having rendered chimneystack, rendered walls, square-headed openings and elliptical-headed carriage arch with timber fittings. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the west. Main entrance to the east having rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and rendered boundary walls.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1665 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballykenny · Baile Chionaoith

Area

1,238,514 m² (123.85 ha, 306.04 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloondara electoral division: 718 people in 265 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brianstown, Caldragh, Cloondara, Killeen, Lisnabo, Tully

Placenames

Ballykenny 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.