Ballagh

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagh, from 51 m² to 163,751 m² (16.38 ha, 40.46 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 Ballagh 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  the following; (a) partial demolition works to a side annex of an existing dwelling (b) internal renovations and elevational changes to the existing dwelling together with the construction of extensions to the sides and rear along with the conversion of a flat roof annex to a pitched roof (c) revised site boundaries with modifications to the existing vehicle entrance (d) upgrade of the existing wastewater treatment system with the installation of a new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area (e) along with all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460308

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  to demolish existing domestic garage, construct new extensions to both ends of existing dwelling house and all associated works.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21295

• 1 Oct 2021Conditional

  the proposed demolition of 2 no. storage sheds and the replacement of same via the proposed construction of 1 no. machinery storage shed and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21285

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Slawn 001443

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballagh, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballagh · An Bealach

Area

888,709 m² (88.87 ha, 219.6 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrevagh, Carrow Beg, Carrowrory, Corrool (Brennan), Cross, Culnagore, Leab

Placenames

Ballagh 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.