Ballymaclifford

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaclifford, from 983 m² to 122,143 m² (12.21 ha, 30.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballymaclifford 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.

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  the proposed retention and completion of existing partially constructed roof structure servicing existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660048

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  to retain a change of roof type from a thatched roof finish to a red clay tile and metal tile finish

  Permission · Longford County Council, 23114

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 Ballymaclifford.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymaclifford.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having modern flat-roofed entrance porch to the front elevation (southeast) and two lower single-storey extensions attached to the northeast end , that at end incorporating an outbuilding. Hipped thatch roof to main block of building having single breeze block chimneystack. Pitched thatched roofs to extensions to the northeast. Painted pebbledashed walls, battered to base of main body of building. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to porch and extensions. Square-headed door opening to southwest elevation of porch with timber battened door. Outbuilding to southeast of site having corrugated-metal roof and painted smooth rendered walls. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Legan and to the southeast of Ardagh. Aligned at a right-angle to the road-alignment. Modern boundary wall to road-frontage to the west/southwest.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymaclifford · Baile Mhic Rifeartaigh

Area

470,994 m² (47.1 ha, 116.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Foxhall electoral division: 611 people in 236 households; 63% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnafinnoge, Glebe, Kilglass and Cloonagh, Lisdreenagh, Rockpeyton, Sleehaun

Placenames

Ballymaclifford 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.