# Ballymacwilliam, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Baile Mhic Liam. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 480,657 m² (48.07 ha, 118.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,091 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templemichael, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/templemichael.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Corboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33207 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130121 - Centre: latitude 53.734458, longitude -7.750695 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 81954: 406,628 m² (40.66 ha, 100.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81954.md - Parcel 74284: 53,455 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74284.md - Parcel 62790: 16,091 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62790.md - Parcel 56567: 2,434 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56567.md - Parcel 3135709: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3135709.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballymacwilliam in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacwilliam. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF014-006: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-006----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-023----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-024----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF014-025----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Williamstown House, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 13401404, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401404. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballymacwilliam.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballymacwilliam.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballymacwilliam.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacwilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Allenagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/allenagh.md - Cartron Big: https://everytownland.com/longford/cartron-big.md - Cartron Little: https://everytownland.com/longford/cartron-little.md - Clooncoose: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooncoose-130287.md - Corrabaun: https://everytownland.com/longford/corrabaun-130366.md - Whiterock: https://everytownland.com/longford/whiterock.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballymacwilliam - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ballymacwilliam