Ballydooley

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydooley, from 135 m² to 218,676 m² (21.87 ha, 54.04 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 Ballydooley 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  Permission to (i) demolish existing rear extension (ii) to construct new rear extension and domestic garage and (iii) to install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660082

• 17 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a new 3 bay slatted sheep shed, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2511

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  for development which will consist of single storey extension and refurbishment / modifications to the existing Protected Lodge, Record No. 03400066, provision of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated and ancillary works and ancillary site services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21149

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 Ballydooley.

Recorded monuments

• RO034-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as an oval enclosure (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle NW-facing slope with an extensive quarry immediately to the S. This is an irregularly-shaped, grass-covered area (dims 28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.8m) which has been quarried back SSW-N-ENE and at E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO034-089----) is c. 180m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular scrub-covered area (dims. 32.5m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an overgrown rounded fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.65m) S-E with an outer field bank and hedge WNW-NE. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an overgrown rounded fosse which is best preserved SW-NNE (Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m), but is hardly traceable at SE-SW (Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.2m). A N-S field bank overlies the E part of the interior, and the perimeter is visible as a slight scarp (H 0.2m) E of this feature. A field bank and hedge is incorporated into the inner edge of the fosse SE-N-SW, but there is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Ballydooley Lodge, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lodge, built c.1820, with single-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, pitched to rear extension. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and limestone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear extension. Round-headed door opening to front elevation with architrave surround, spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Wrought-iron pedestrian gates flank front elevation. Single-storey stone outbuilding to rear yard with central carriage arch opening.

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 Ballydooley, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballydooley · Baile Uí Dhúlaoich

Area

1,659,434 m² (165.94 ha, 410.06 acres)

Civil parish

Oran, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Dunamon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

328 people lived in 123 households in the Dunamon electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacfarrane, Carroweighter, Clooneenbaun, Emlagh Beg, Emlagh More, Gorticmeelra, Lissanisky, Newtowncarrigans, Oran, Runnabackan

Placenames

Ballydooley 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.