Ballynascraw

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynascraw, from 1,578 m² to 320,503 m² (32.05 ha, 79.2 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 Ballynascraw 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a two 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, 2660285

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 Ballynascraw.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1968 (SMR file) indicates that this rath was largely levelled due to land reclamation. Extant remains comprise a circular area (diam. 30.5m) defined by a barely perceptible scarp (H 0.3-0.8m) with very faint traces of an external fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.2-0.4m), which are identifiable only from S-W-NE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having gable-fronted entrance porch addition to front façade (east). Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and two rendered chimneystacks. Hipped artificial slate roof to porch. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with some tooled cut limestone, some rendered sills and having mainly one-over-one timber sliding sash windows; some modern replacement windows. Segmental-headed door opening to porch north face of porch having half-glazed timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights. Single-storey outbuilding to rear having pitched corrugated-metal roof and roughly coursed dressed limestone walls. Set in own grounds to the southeast of Ballinalee. Set at a right-angle to the road alignment. Gateway to the north, recessed from road, having rendered boundary walls and gate piers (on square-plan).

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 Ballynascraw, 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

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

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

Name

Ballynascraw · Baile na Scraithe

Area

1,332,360 m² (133.24 ha, 329.23 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

648 people lived in 253 households in the Ballinalee electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Ballyreaghan, Clonbroney, Laughil (Adair), Laughil (Edgeworth), Prucklishtown, Roos, Tullybaun

Placenames

Ballynascraw 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.