Ballymacwilliam

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacwilliam, from 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 406,628 m² (40.66 ha, 100.48 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 Ballymacwilliam 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymacwilliam in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballymacwilliam.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the highest point of a prominent NW-SE ridge in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that a slightly raised circular area (diam. 39.4m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank has since been levelled but a poorly defined scarp (max. H 0.5m) is evident from N-E-W. From W-N only its outline is identifiable. The fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.22m) survives from SE-S-NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A pronounced kink in a field boundary on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map probably mirrors the outline of the rath from roughly SSE-NNW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle ESE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; H 0.55m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4.1m; D 0.6m). From SE-ESE the bank and fosse have been levelled and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.8m). The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle WNW-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 27.6m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. From SE-S-N the bank (Wth c. 3.3m) and fosse (Wth c. 2.9m) have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere they have been levelled but their outlines are identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. A slight kink in a field boundary on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map probably mirrors the outline of the N sector of this rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in low-lying pasture, c. 55m to the N of an ENE-WSW flowing stream. A raised circular area (diam. 23.7m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; H 0.3-0.9m) an intervening fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 1m) and an outer substantial bank (Wth 4.35m; H 0.8m); its outer face has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 10 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Williamstown House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, having two two-storey returns with hipped slate roofs, and flat-roofed addition to rear (west) having metal water tank over. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of ashlar/dressed limestone chimneystacks and having terracotta chimney pots. Roughcast rendered walls, now covered in ornamental vegetation/ivy. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, one-over-one timber sliding sash windows having painted stone sills. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation having glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the east of Longford Town centre. Garden to front (east) and to the south. Cut limestone gate posts and wrought-iron gate to the north end of front elevation of house, giving access to rear. Single-storey outbuildings to the southwest of house (not investigated). Main entrance gates to the south of house comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) and decorative wrought-iron double gates.

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 Ballymacwilliam, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacwilliam · Baile Mhic Liam

Area

480,657 m² (48.07 ha, 118.77 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Corboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

420 people lived in 151 households in the Corboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenagh, Cartron Big, Cartron Little, Clooncoose, Corrabaun, Whiterock

Placenames

Ballymacwilliam 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.