Ballymacroly

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacroly, from 3,879 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 209,611 m² (20.96 ha, 51.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballymacroly 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  of the alterations to the development previously granted under Planning Refs. PL00/773. The development will consist of the alterations of the permitted stone-faced bungalow with septic tank, percolation area, garage, boundary walls, piers and gates for which retention permission is sought include: a) changing the garage location from north to north-west side of the house, b) upgrading and changing the septic tank location from western house corner to north-east side of the house, c) upgrading size and changing the location of percolation area to be parallel to the west-south garage wall, d) omission of natural stone finished masonry boundary walls, piers and gates

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560151

• 5 Aug 2021Refused

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21231

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 Ballymacroly.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pasture. A raised oval area (43m N–S; 37m E–W) enclosed from NE–E–S, from WSW–W and from NW–NNW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2-4.7m; H 0.4-0.6m), and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.45-2m). A wide external fosse (Wth 7.1m; D 0.3-1m) is evident from E–ESE. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded the presence of a short segment of a low outer bank at E and also that the original entrance was at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF010-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a terrace above a stream to its N and E. A raised subcircular area (40.5m E–W; 37.7m N–S) enclosed from SE–S–N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.8-5.8m; H 0.3-0.5m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m). A shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6.3-7.4m; D 0.7-0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.4-5.8m; H 1-1.4m) survive from ESE–S–NW. Elsewhere they have been levelled but the outline of the fosse may still be traced. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Millbrook, miller's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former miller's house with attic level, built c. 1800. Now in use as private house with modern single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (west). Pitched thatched roof with ropework to ridge, raised rendered verges to gable ends, and with three rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls over lined-and-ruled rendered plinth course and with rendered block quoins to the corners. Rubble stone construction evident to north gable end. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and having margined timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, offset close to the centre of main façade, with replacement uPVC door and fixed timber framed sidelights. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Granard. Rendered gate piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to southwest of site. Located on an elevated site to the northwest of a former mill complex (13401020), approached by a flight of rendered steps. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

• Millbrook, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey corn mill complex on skewed plan (with three adjoining blocks), built c. 1800 and altered c. 1860, having mill wheel with iron and timber fittings to north elevation and single-storey extension to west elevation. Formerly also in use as a brewery. Now disused. Pitched slate multiple-level/stepped roofs with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-metal roof to extension. Roughcast rendered over rubble stone and roughly coursed dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows or timber battened fittings. Square-headed door opening to the west set in segmental-headed blind recess with timber battened door. Detached single-storey with attic level outbuilding to west, built c. 1800. Roof absent. Roughly coursed dressed limestone walls. Round-headed opening to north gable end having red brick voussoirs. Detached outbuilding to northwest, built c. 1890, having lean-to corrugated-metal roof and random rubble limestone walls. Segmental-headed door opening having dressed limestone voussoirs and double leaf timber battened doors. Complex located southwest of Granard, with millstream running northeast to southwest through site before joining tributary of the Camlin River.

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 10 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

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

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

Name

Ballymacroly · Baile Mhic Crualaoich

Area

255,790 m² (25.58 ha, 63.21 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Rural electoral division: 307 people in 102 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrien, Cartron, Ferskill, Leitrim

Placenames

Ballymacroly 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.