Ballyknock

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 1,907 m² to 268,218 m² (26.82 ha, 66.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyknock 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 Apr 2023Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part 2 storey, part single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance walls and piers, install sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360005

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 Ballyknock.

Recorded monuments

• LF018-060001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a prominent hillock affording extensive views in all directions. This castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Moydow barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.28). In 1636 the inquisition post mortem into the property of William McBryen Murtagh of Dowclone [Mosstown] lists one ruinous castle in the townland of Ballyknock (Anon. 1826, vol. 1, Inq. 17 Car 1). This tower house (ext. dims. 11.4m NE–SW; 9.3m NW–SE; wall T 2.3m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble; it has a massive base-batter. The structure was at least three storeys high and is featureless except for fireplaces in the SE and SW walls at ground-floor level. The doorway was probably in the NE wall, which has collapsed. The tower house is centrally located within a circular bawn (LF018-060002-), which is almost certainly constructed on the site of a pre-existing ringfort (LF018-060003-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 June 2012

• LF018-060002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with the tower house (LF018-060001-). This circular bawn (diam. 39.3m) is defined by the foundations of a stone wall (T 2.1m). Its siting, size and shape suggest that it is almost certainly constructed on the site of a pre-existing ringfort (LF018-060003-) and that its circuit mirrors that of the enclosing element of the ringfort. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 June 2012

• LF018-060003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a prominent hillock in otherwise lowlying terrain. A circular bawn (LF018-060002-) (diam. 39.9m) is defined by the foundations of a stone wall (T 2.1m). Given its siting, size and shape, it is likely that it is an adaptation of a pre-existing ringfort, with the circuit of the bawn wall mirroring that of the ringfort’s enclosing element. No visible surface trace of the ringfort survives. A tower house (LF018-060001-) is centrally located within the bawn. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 13 December 2011

• LF018-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Close to the base of a SW-facing hillside. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) indicates that a NW-SE running field boundary was built on the line of the monument from SSW-WNW. Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 37m) defined by a low earthen bank that was best preserved at W and N and heavily overgrown at S. Traces of a possible external fosse were evident at W. The original entrance was not recognisable. Faint cultivation ridges, running N-S, were visible within the interior. The monument is now visible on an OSI aerial photograph (SMR file) as a curving field boundary from SSW-WNW and as a cropmark from WNW-E-S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 December 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknock, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic

Area

862,879 m² (86.29 ha, 213.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnashingan, Coolnahinch, Kilmakinlan, Knockavegan, Laghlooney, Mosstown, Snugborough

Placenames

Ballyknock 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.