Ballymakeegan

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymakeegan, from 191 m² to 171,236 m² (17.12 ha, 42.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballymakeegan 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.

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  the existing extensions and outbuildings/shed type structures which service existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560083

• 4 Sept 2024Conditional

  changes to existing dwelling to include amendments to floor plans and elevation, front porch, bay window, extension to the side including domestic store

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2460193

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  to retain an existing dwelling house as constructed, along with all other associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2238

• 24 Sept 2021Refused

  the proposed erection of a dwelling house, proposed installation of a wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, alteration to existing agricultural entrance to also serve the proposed dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Longford County Council, 21275

• 11 Mar 2021Refused

  proposed two storey dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2170

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrymore Bog 000447

Recorded monuments

• LF014-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 24.4m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.1-1.3m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4.3m; D 0.9m). It is divided into unequal portions by a NNW-SSE field boundary with accompanying drains. The smaller portion, to the WSW, has been levelled. However, the fosse survives. A narrow break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at SSE with traces of a possible accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) noted that this slightly raised circular area (diam. 22.3m) was defined by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. It has since been levelled and is defined by an irregular scarp (H 0.4-0.7m), except from ENE-E-ESE where it has been destroyed due to the construction of a modern NE-SW field boundary. The outline of the fosse (Wth 3.1m) is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymakeegan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1735 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballymakeegan · Baile Mhic Aogáin

Area

1,289,839 m² (128.98 ha, 318.73 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,685 people lived in 1,964 households in the Longford Rural electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrymore, Farnagh, Feraghfad, Knockahaw, Lisduff, Trillickacurry

Placenames

Ballymakeegan 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.