Ballynacross

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacross, from 82 m² to 213,709 m² (21.37 ha, 52.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• O1Reservation Objective (Strategic reserve, White land)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a machinery storage shed and all ancillary site works whereby planning permission for the proposed machinery storage shed is now being sought for use as commerical storage which will be used in conjunction with the applicants business

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460110

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  extension to existing domestic garage at my residence

  Retention · Longford County Council, 22266

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  construct a 4-bay loose cattle shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21125

• 23 Apr 2021N/a

  single-storey dwelling house, new entrance gate and boundary fence/wall and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21115

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  the material change of use of an existing barn to a one bedroom granny annex to including internal and external alterations to the existing barn, connection to existing on site septic tank and other services and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20126

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 Ballynacross.

Recorded monuments

• LF011-015 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a shelf of level ground on a WNW-facing slope. This circular, round-topped mound of earth and stone (diam. at base 11.5m; H 1-1.6m) is partially degraded by cattle trampling over it. There is no trace of an encircling bank or fosse. Probably the remains of a burial mound. 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 Ballynacross.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynacross · Baile na Croise

Area

1,593,369 m² (159.34 ha, 393.73 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Urban electoral division: 1,268 people in 494 households; 47% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carragh, Cartronbore, Higginstown, Kilbride, Kinkillew, Rathcronan, Tennyphobble, Toberfelim

Placenames

Ballynacross 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.