Ballinlig

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlig, from 29 m² to 254,063 m² (25.41 ha, 62.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballinlig 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.

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct a dairy parlour and cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19475

• 5 Sept 2019N/a

  to construct a dairy parlour and cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19453

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• RO041-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the gentle W-facing slope of a low hill overlooking a N-S section of the River Suck, c. 110m to the W. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 69.7m E-W; 62.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.2-7.6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5m at N to 1.3-1.8m generally) NW-E-SW which has been quarried elsewhere, separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 10-12.3m; Wth of base 3.2-6.5m; D 1.1-1.6m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.7-6.7m; H 0.15-0.6m) SW-NE which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2.6-3.3m; ext. H 0.75-1.4m) NE-SW. There is an entrance through both banks, and a causeway (Wth 4.5m), at SE, and there is a raised and curved platform (dims c. 30m N-S; 17.5m E-W; H 0.4m) against the inner bank at E (max. ext. dims 97.5m E-W; 94.4m N-S). See the attached aerial image taken from the NW Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-007001 Field system
  Description

  A castle is marked at Ballinlugga on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (489)). Situated on a shelf on a N-facing slope overlooking a turlough c. 120m to the N. The castle (RO041-007002-) is surrounded by an open area (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 50m E-W), but two rectangular fields (dims 56m x 35m; 80m x 35m) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 3m; H 0.5-0.9m), are associated to the W and a sub-rectangular field (dims 41m x 26m) is to the E. The fields cover an area of about 2 ha (c. 5 acres). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-007002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle at Baqllinlugge is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (489)) and the quarter amounting to 208 acres was owned by Sir Charles Coote in 1641 and after the Cromwellian settlement (idem. 127). Situated on a shelf on a N-facing slope overlooking a turlough c. 120m to the N. The castle is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 16.3m E-W; c. 8m N-S) defined by scarps at E (H 0.8m) and S (H 0.7-0.9m) and an earthen bank (Wth 6m; H 0.3-0.5m) at W. The N edge cannot be identified but a lime-kiln (RO041-007004-), visible as a grass-covered mound (dims 7m N-S; 5.7m E-W; H 0.2-0.4m), has been built into its NE angle and a quarry (diam. 6m; D 0.6-0.9m) has been dug in the interior. It is surrounded by an open area (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 50m E-W), but two rectangular fields (RO041-007001-) (dims 56m E-W; 35m N-S: 80m E-W; 35m N-S), defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 3m; H 0.5-0.9m), are associated to the W, and a subrectangular field (dims 41m N-S; 26-30m E-W) is to the E. The SW corner of the open space is occupied by a sub-rectangular grass-covered quarry (RO041-007005-) (dims 31m E-W; 23m N-S; max. D 1m), while a roadway (RO041-007003-) defined by earthen banks approaches from the S (Wth c. 6m; L c. 60m) and departs to the ENE (L 32m) and then N (Wth 5-10m; L 125m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-007003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  A castle is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 at Ballinlugge (Simington 1949, Athlone (489)). Situated on a shelf on a N-facing slope overlooking a turlough c. 120m to the N. The castle (RO041-007002-) is surrounded by an open area (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 50m E-W), but a roadway defined by earthen banks approaches from the SSE (Wth c. 6m; L c. 60m plus) and departs to the ENE (L 32m) and then N (Wth 5-10m; L 125m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-007004 Kiln - lime
  Description

  A castle is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 at Ballinlugge (Simingtonn 1949, Athlone (489)). Situated on a shelf on a N-facing slope overlooking a turlough c. 120m to the N. The N edge of the castle (RO041-007002-) cannot be identified but a lime-kiln, visible as a grass-covered mound (dims 7m N-S; 5.7m E-W; H 0.2-0.4m), has been built into its NE angle and a quarry (diam. 6m; D 0.6-0.9m) has been dug in the interior of the castle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-007005 Quarry
  Description

  A castle at Ballinlugge is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (489)). Situated on a shelf on a N-facing slope overlooking a turlough c. 120m to the N. The castle (RO041-007002-) is surrounded by an open area (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 50m E-W), but the SW corner of the open space is occupied by a sub-rectangular grass-covered quarry (dims 31m E-W; 23m N-S; max. D 1m), which might have supplied stone for the Castle or the lime-kiln (RO041-007004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinlig, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1271 (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 Ballinlig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballinlig · Baile an Loig

Area

1,542,403 m² (154.24 ha, 381.14 acres)

Civil parish

Fuerty, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Fuerty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

796 people lived in 283 households in the Fuerty electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlestrange, Coolmeen, Cooly, Creemully and Aghagad Beg, Muff

Placenames

Ballinlig 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.