Ballywillin

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywillin, from 14 m² to 128,412 m² (12.84 ha, 31.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballywillin 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.

• 13 Jun 2025Refused

  the proposed demolition of existing derelict dwelling house and the proposed construction of a single storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560119

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Kinale and Derragh Lough SPA 004061
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Kinale And Derragh Lough NHA 000985

Recorded monuments

• CV041-023 Ford
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• LF011-079 Ford
  Description

  Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the foord of Ballavullin [Ballywillin]' (Simington 1961, vol. 10, 45). This ford appears to have been located on the E edge of the medieval barony of Granard. The present road bridge over the river, which crosses the county boundary between Longford and Cavan, connecting Granard to Ballyjamesdfuff, may have been built on its site. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Ballywillin Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey railway station, built c. 1856, with open shelter to platform (west) supported on moulded timber posts. Modern glazed entrance porch to east elevation. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof having overhanging eaves, and with two rendered chimneystacks having cut limestone capping and terracotta chimney pots. Lean-to roof to platform shelter. Render eaves cornice and string course. Snecked rusticated limestone walls over dressed limestone plinth with dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Segmental-headed window openings with moulded tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds (flush), cut stone sills and replacement windows. Segmental-headed opening to east elevation (behind porch) with cut limestone surround, and having glazed timber door with overlight. Segmental-headed opening to former platform (west) with cut limestone surround and replacement door. Station flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone walling. Square-headed doorway with wrought-iron flat bar gate built into wall to the north of main station building; squared-headed doorway with timber door built into wall to the south of main station building. Former railway platforms to either side of disused railway track (now removed) having cut limestone kerbing. Outbuilding to the south having rubble limestone walls and hipped natural slate roof. Former water tower (on square-plan) to the south, having snecked limestone walls and dressed limestone coping, original metal water tank now removed. Decorative wrought-iron railings to the east side of former water tower. Former goods shed (13401107) and railway signal box (13401106) to the south. Located to the northeast of Granard, close to the border with County Cavan.

• Ballywillin Railway Station, signal box, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey signal box, built c. 1925. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative finials to gable ends (north and south). Roof overhangs to form canopy to front and rear (east and west), supported by carved timber brackets. Rusticated cement block walls to ground floor with moulded cement string course over. Timber clapperboard walls to first floor with timber pilasters. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with fixed timber windows and cement sills. Square-headed window openings, sweeping around corners to first floor, with timber windows. Square-headed door opening to east and north elevations with timber panelled doors. Located to the south of the former Ballywillin Railway Station (13401105), and to the northeast of Abbeylara.

• Ballywillin Railway Station, goods shed, outbuilding, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height former railway goods shed associated with Ballywillin Railway Station, built c. 1856, having single-bay single-storey annex attached to the north gable end. Ancillary buildings to the south. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging canopy to the east side supported on timber brackets. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed coursed limestone walls over chamfered tooled limestone plinth (west), and with flush tooled ashlar limestone quoins to the corners. Round openings to the west elevation having tooled limestone surrounds and multi-paned metal-framed windows. Semi-circular window opening to apex at either gable end (north and south) having red brick surrounds, tooled limestone sills, and multi-paned metal-framed window openings. Square-headed window openings to single-storey annex to north end of goods shed having red brick surrounds, limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings to the north and east elevations having tooled ashlar limestone relieving arches and quoins, timber lintels and with battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage arch/loading door openings (probably originally segmental-headed) to the north, south and east elevations having tooled ashlar limestone quoins and relieving arches, and timber lintels. Battened timber sliding door to the loading bay to the east, replacement metal doors to the south and north elevations. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south of former goods shed having mono-pitched natural slate roof. Rubble limestone walls with roughly squared quoins to the corners. Walls now covered with ivy. Square-headed window opening to the north elevation having red brick surround, fixed timber window, limestone sill and wrought-iron security bars. Square-headed doorways to the north and south elevations having battened timber doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch/loading bay openings to west elevation having tooled ashlar limestone voussoirs and the remains of timber battened doors. Square-headed carriage arches/ loading bay openings to east elevation having timber battened doors. Located to the south of the former Ballywillin Railway Station (13401105) with disused railway (tracks removed) to the west). Rubble stone boundary walls to the north. Located the northeast of Abbeylara.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballywillin · Béal Átha an Mhuilinn

Area

1,524,086 m² (152.41 ha, 376.61 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Abbeylara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeylara electoral division: 351 people in 137 households; 76% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklagh (Co. Cavan), Creevy, Cullaboy Upper (Co. Cavan), Kilgolagh (Co. Cavan), Springtown

Placenames

Ballywillin 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.