Ballymulvey

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymulvey, from 64 m² to 192,685 m² (19.27 ha, 47.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  miscellaneous alterations and refurbishments of the existing two storey residential protected structure (RPS: 93), including inter alia:- (i) alterations to rear accommodations to facilitate the construction of a new ground floor rear entrance lobby and the extension of the rear first floor landing area to accommodate a double height space with roof lights, (ii) extension of the eastern ground floor accommodations into the attached rear garage area to create an additional living room (with attic accommodation over at first floor level), (iii) insertion of new east facing patio doors and new conservation roof lights above into the rear pitched roof areas, (iv) re roofing of pitched roof areas, (v) conservation and structural repair of the external outbuildings forming the rear courtyard area, (vi) installation of new M&E services throughout the property, including a new kitchen/utility at ground floor level and a new bathroom, service area and en suite at first floor level, and (vii) insertion of a new proprietary sewerage treatment system with percolation area, within the grounds, including inter alia, works and alterations to facilitate all necessary site services. The existing use of the overall accommodations will remain unchanged

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660021

• 29 Aug 2025Unconditional

  of PL20/74 (A) proposed construction of a residential development of 37 no. dwelling houses which comprises the following: (i) 9 no. three bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses of which there are two different designs (ii) 7 no. three bedroom storey & a half detached type dwelling houses (iii) two blocks of 4 no. two storey terraced type dwelling houses consisting of 1 no. three bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling house & 3 no. two bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses in each block, ie 8 no. two storey terrace type dwelling houses in total (iv) 3 no. four bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses (v) 5 no. two bedroom single storey type dwelling houses, (vi) 5 no. three bedroom single storey type dwelling houses (vii) proposed continuation of existing estate road network together with the proposed connection to the existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks currently servicing the existing housing estate known as Dunaras which was previously granted full planning permission by An Bord Pleanala under planning reference number PL.14.212595 (viii) construction of green open spaces, boundary fence/walls (B) proposed construction of a pedestrian footpath and cycle lane to link the existing internal footpath which services phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras and the adjoining public road (public road no. L-52182) which services Marian Terrace/Marian Villas housing estate so as to provide connectivity for the existing occupied dwelling houses in phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras together with the proposed development to which this application relates and the main street of the town of Ballymahon. It is proposed as part of this planning permission application to upgrade the existing footpaths, car parking bays and carriageway that services Marian Terrace/Marian Villas housing estate so as to create a shared surface in accordance with the guidance and recommendations outlined in "The Design Manual For Urban Roads and Streets" (DMURS) and complete the pedestrian footpath, cycle lane and shared surface prior to the commencement of any of the proposed dwellings to which this application relates (C) proposed construction of a 2.5 high capped & plastered wall along the boundary which separates the site to which this planning permission application relates & the property known as the Longford/Westmeath farmers mart. Proposed removal of the existing 10 No. ground floor slab foundations which servic

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2534

• 26 Aug 2025N/a

  of PL20/74 (A) proposed construction of a residential development of 37 no. dwelling houses which comprises the following: (i) 9 no. three bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses of which there are two different designs (ii) 7 no. three bedroom storey & a half detached type dwelling houses (iii) two blocks of 4 no. two storey terraced type dwelling houses consisting of 1 no. three bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling house & 3 no. two bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses in each block, ie 8 no. two storey terrace type dwelling houses in total (iv) 3 no. four bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses (v) 5 no. two bedroom single storey type dwelling houses, (vi) 5 no. three bedroom single storey type dwelling houses (vii) proposed continuation of existing estate road network together with the proposed connection to the existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks currently servicing the existing housing estate known as Dunaras which was previously granted full planning permission by An Bord Pleanala under planning reference number PL.14.212595 (viii) construction of green open spaces, boundary fence/walls (B) proposed construction of a pedestrian footpath and cycle lane to link the existing internal footpath which services phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras and the adjoining public road (public road no. L-52182) which services Marian Terrace/Marian Villas housing estate so as to provide connectivity for the existing occupied dwelling houses in phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras together with the proposed development to which this application relates and the main street of the town of Ballymahon. It is proposed as part of this planning permission application to upgrade the existing footpaths, car parking bays and carriageway that services Marian Terrace/Marian Villas housing estate so as to create a shared surface in accordance with the guidance and recommendations outlined in "The Design Manual For Urban Roads and Streets" (DMURS) and complete the pedestrian footpath, cycle lane and shared surface prior to the commencement of any of the proposed dwellings to which this application relates (C) proposed construction of a 2.5 high capped & plastered wall along the boundary which separates the site to which this planning permission application relates & the property known as the Longford/Westmeath farmers mart. Proposed removal of the existing 10 No. ground floor slab foundations which servic

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2533

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a storage shed type structure, which will be used in conjunction with existing onsite haulage & warehousing business, & which is proposed to be constructed within the confines of an existing concrete structure which was formally used as storage bays for previous concrete batching plant and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560050

• 21 Dec 2023Unconditional

  of 19/70, proposed demolition of existing concrete structure formally used as storage bays for previous Concrete Batching Plant together with the proposed construction of a warehouse for use as part of existing Haulage & Warehousing Business and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 23119

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  (A) proposed construction of a residential development of 37 no. dwelling houses which comprises the following: (i) 9 no. three bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses of which there are two different designs (ii) 7 no. three bedroom storey & a half detached type dwelling houses (iii) two blocks of 4 no. two storey terraced type dwelling houses consisting of 1 no. three bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling house & 3 no. two bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses in each block, ie 8 no. two storey terrace type dwelling houses in total (iv) 3 no. four bedroom two storey detached type dwelling houses (v) 5 no. two bedroom single storey type dwelling houses, (vi) 5 no three bedroom single storey type dwelling houses (vii) proposed continuation of existing estate road network together with the proposed connection to the existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks currently servicing the existing housing estate known as Dunaras which was previously granted full planning permission by An Bord Pleanala under planning reference number PL.14.212595 (viii) construction of green open spaces, boundary fence/walls (B) proposed construction of a pedestrian footpath and cycle lane to link the existing internal footpath which services phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras and the adjoining public road (public rd no. L-52182) which services Marian Tce/Marian Villas housing estate so as to provide connectivity for the existing occupied dwelling houses in phase 1 of the existing estate known as Dunaras together with the proposed development to which this application relates and the main street of the town of Ballymahon. It is proposed as part of this planning permission application to upgrade the existing footpaths, car parking bays and carriageway that services Marian Tce/MarianVillas housing estate so as to create a shared surface in accordance with the guidance and recommendations outlined in "The Design Manual For Urban Roads and Streets" (DMURS) and complete the pedestrian footpath, cycle lane and shared surface prior to the commencement of any of the proposed dwellings to which this application relates (C) proposed construction of a 2.5 high capped & plastered wall along the boundary which separates the site to which this planning permission application relates & the property known as the Longford/Westmeath farmers mart. (Full description scanned/attached) (COVID 19b)

  Permission, 37 homes · Longford County Council, 2074

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  to extend our existing dwelling house at the front to include a sitting room with bay window and at the rear to include a sun room with velux window in the utility with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19218

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing concrete structure formally used as storage bays for previous Concrete Batching Plant together with the proposed construction of a warehouse for use as part of existing Haulage & Warehousing Business and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1970

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 Ballymulvey.

Recorded monuments

• LF027-007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In moderately drained pasture. Depicted as a sub-circular copse of trees on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is represented as an oval enclosure on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) defined by a two sets of hachures indicating a fosse. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. In all probability, this was a designed landscape feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF027-045 Bridge
  Description

  Spanning the Inny River. Described in 1682 as a wooden bridge 'built lately by Robert Chawpen [Choppin] Esqr.', who was also reputedly involved in the construction of the bridge (LF023-113008-) at Abbeyshrule (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 209). No visible remains survive but the present bridge is probably built on its site. The latter bridge is a four-arched road bridge dating from c. 1775 (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13402707, last accessed 26 March 2012). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 September 2012

• LF027-046 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the N bank of the Inny River, 1km to the E of Ballymahon. In 1569 Sir Robert Dillon was granted the lands of Ballymulvey and the monastery of Abbeyshrule (LF023-113----). In 1604 King James I granted William Taaffe lands in Co. Longford which included; 'Ballimullen, alias Ballimulvey in Clanconnor, late the lands of Gerald McHubbert Boy O'Farrell late of Ballinkernie, attainted, 1 cartron, rent 6s. 8d. Ir.' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 2). In 1620 King James I granted Robert Dillon lands in Longford as part of the plantation of Ely O'Carroll's country which included the 'lands of Ballymulveyeightra, 76a arable and pasture, and 52a. moor and wood; Ballymulveymoghtra, 48a. arable and pasture, 22a. wood and moor' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 466). According to the conditions of the land grant, Robert Dillon was to hold the lands 'in free and common soccage, but subject to forfeiture on assuming the name, style, or title of the Great O'Farrall, or on paying any rent, taxation, or service, or to divide the lands according to the Irish custom of gavelkind, and subject to the other conditions of the plantation' (ibid.). After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 the lands of Sir James Dillon, who lived at Ballymulvey, were confiscated and were subsequently granted to the Molyneaux family and later passed into the hands of the Shuldham family (Anon. 1846, vol. 3, 233). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as ‘a castle in good repaire’ (Simington 1961, vol. 10, 48), it is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Rathcline barony (NLI, MS 719) as a large house with several chimneystacks, situated beside the ‘High Way from Longford to Dublin’. Ballymulvey House, an 18th-century house (wall T c. 0.5m), now in ruins, appears to incorporate fragments of an earlier building (wall T c. 1m), possibly the castle referred to in the Civil Survey. A fish-pond (LF027-046001-) and earthworks (LF027-046002-) are associated. Ballymulvey House and walled garden (NIAH Reg. No. 13316002) described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as follows; 'Remains of walled garden associated by Ballymulvey House (now demolished), built c. 1730. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with square-profile ashlar entrance piers to entrance from the north. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding with coursed roughly dressed rubble limestone walls and dressed limestone quoins, square-headed opening with dressed limestone voussoirs. Former entrance with pair of red brick piers to north-west elevation, now infilled with rubble limestone masonry. Located to the east of Ballymahon and adjacent to the River Inny (south). Set back from road. This former walled garden was originally constructed to serve Ballymulvey House, now demolished. Although now ruinous, the boundary walls are solidly constructed while the finely carved ashlar gate piers to the entrance are indicative of high quality craftsmanship. The scale of these walled gardens provides an interesting historical insight into the extensive resources needed to run and maintain a large country estate in Ireland during the eighteenth and the nineteenth century. It is indicated as the residence of a Revd.(?) Auchmuty (Auchmuty family had their main seat at Brianstown House) on a map of the area dated 1777 - 83 (Taylor and Skinner), and was described as the residence of a Thomas Achmuty in 1843. This site also has historic connections with the Bryanton, Molyneaux and Shuldham families. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) was a relative of the Bryanton family and stayed at Ballymulvey House on a number of occasions during the late 1740s and the 1750s. The Shuldham family developed much of Ballymahon during the early-nineteenth century, including funding the construction of the market house and court house (13316010), c. 1819. The house itself was in ruins by 1914 (Ordnance Survey third edition six-inch map). This walled garden remains an important element of the built heritage and social history of the Ballymahon area' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 13316002). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 July 2022

• LF027-046001 Fish-pond
  Description

  Possibly associated with an unclassified castle (LF027-046----) c. 140m to the NW. Depicted and named 'Fish Pond' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The pond is now dry but a large sunken terrace marks its location. Earthworks (LF027-046002-) may be associated. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2013

• LF027-046002 Earthwork
  Description

  On the N bank of the Inny River and associated with an unclassified castle (LF027-046----) that was subsequently incorporated into Ballymulvey House, an 18th-century house now in ruins. Impressive earthworks relating to the landscaping of the demesne are visible in the fields around the house. The majority of these appear to be post-AD 1700 in date. However, the large sunken terrace to the SE of the house may be the remains of a fish-pond (LF027-046001-) of possible 17th/18th-century date and the sunken platforms/terraces visible on an aerial photograph (SMR file) to the NE of it may be associated with medieval or 17th-century gardens. There are numerous other landscaped earthworks, including a raised road and what appear to be linear canals that may also be post-AD 1700 in date but some may be associated with the castle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 February 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1855, now disused. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having cast-iron bars. Square-headed door opening to south-east façade with timber panelled door and overlight. Timber panelled shutters visible to interiors of windows. Outbuildings to rear having pitched corrugated-metal roofs and of random rubble limestone construction. Additional outbuilding to site having pitched asbestos roof and having roughcast rendered walls. Set with rear adjacent to the road, having random rubble limestone walls with ashlar gate piers on square plan and having double leaf wrought-iron gates, carved limestone gate piers with cast-iron pedestrian gate to site.

• Newcastle Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge over River Inny, built c. 1775. Arch to the southeast end of bridge constructed on a smaller scale and now over dry channel of river. Random rubble limestone construction to spandrels, piers, abutments, arch barrels and parapet walls. Some remaining sections of lime roughcast render. Segmental-headed arches with roughly dressed and squared limestone voussoirs. Rubble stone cutwaters to piers (on V-shaped plan) having roughly dressed limestone quoins. Chamfered dressed limestone coping over a number of the cutwaters. Rounded dressed ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls. Rubble stone wing walls to southeast ends of parapets. Vernacular gateway to the southeast end of parapet to the west, comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts (on square-plan) having rounded heads and a wrought-iron gate. Located on the northwest boundary of the present Newcastle House demesne (13402709), and to the east of Ballymahon.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1754 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballymulvey · Baile Uí Mhaoilmhiaigh

Area

1,831,601 m² (183.16 ha, 452.6 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybranigan, Ballymahon, Clooncallow, Cloonkeen, Creevagh Beg, Creevagh More, Newcastle, Toome

Placenames

Ballymulvey 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.