Ballyfeeny

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfeeny, from 794 m² to 116,194 m² (11.62 ha, 28.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Ballyfeeny 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.

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of: • The construction and operation of a wind farm consisting of six wind turbines; • The turbine specification is unconfirmed but will fall within the parameter range outlined by Roscommon County Council and will be one of the following three Options; - Technology Option 1: tip height of 160m, rotor diameter of 136m and hub height of 92m; or - Technology Option 2: tip height of 156m, rotor diameter of 133m and hub height of 90m; or - Technology Option 3: tip height of 159m, rotor diameter of 138m and hub height of 90m; • Construction of turbine hardstands (including crane and assembly areas) and turbine foundations; • Construction of approximately 3.9km of new permanent internal site access tracks and the upgrade of 0.5km of existing internal site access tracks; • Construction of a permanent onsite 38kV electrical substation, including one single storey substation building with welfare facilities, Lidar, diesel generator and fuel storage tank, all associated electrical plant and equipment, all associated underground cabling, rainwater harvesting and storage tank, wastewater holding tank, security fencing, gates, signage, and all ancillary structures and works; • Installation of underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines to the proposed onsite 38kV electrical substation; • Construction of two temporary site compounds with associated site offices, welfare facilities, car parking, site fencing and lighting; • Erection of a permanent 30m high communications relay tower; • Construction access via six site entrances (SE1 – SE6) to include: - SE1 on the R371, SE2 and SE3 on the L6018, and SE4, SE5 and SE6 on the L60498; - SE1 and SE6 are temporary and will be reinstated following construction. SE1 may be re-established if required for turbine component repair or replacement. SE2 – SE5 will be retained permanently for operational access; • Tree felling to facilitate the construction and operation of the proposed development; • Installation of approximately 5.1km of permanent underground electrical cabling for the grid connection including cabling within the public road corridor, extending from the proposed onsite 38kV electrical Substation at Ballyfeeny to end at the junction of the R371 and the Sliabh Bawn Substation Road in the townland of Tooreen; • All associated site works, including site clearance, landscaping, site drainage, s

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560446

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  Planning permission for Retention of changes to house, garage and site layout from that previously granted permission under planning reference PD/04/136 and completion of all outstanding works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17126

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 Ballyfeeny.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfeeny.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyfeeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballyfeeny · Baile Uí Fhíne

Area

432,444 m² (43.24 ha, 106.86 acres)

Civil parish

Bumlin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Bumlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bumlin electoral division: 534 people in 195 households; 89% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfeeny, Clooneen (Hartland), Killinordan, Pollymount

Placenames

Ballyfeeny 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.