Ballintober (Bonny)
Ballintober (Bonny) is a townland in the civil parish of Taghsheenod, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Tobair (Bonny).
Parcel 5618650
- Area
- 7,340 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 217 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballintober (Bonny)
Planning applications on this parcel
25 Sept 2019Conditional
proposed construction of a dormer type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, on site suitable treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19244
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 69.8 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 9,805 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober (Bonny), from 777 m² to 114,827 m² (11.48 ha, 28.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballintober (Bonny) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Feb 2026Conditional
the proposed extension to an existing single storey type dwelling house together with the replacement of existing septic tank system with an onsite sewerage treatment system with suitable polishing filter in accordance with the EPA Code of Practice 2021. Retention permission is also being sought for existing domestic garage which services the existing dwelling house & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660054
6 Apr 2023Conditional
the proposed construction of an extension to an existing single storey dwelling house & all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2370
24 Sept 2021Refused
proposed construction of a single storey structure for use as a cookery workshop with provision for on site car parking, extension of existing access road that services the applicants existing dwelling house, boundary fence/wall, landscaping and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 21279
31 Oct 2019Conditional
to construct a proposed bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, formation of new entrance, boundary wall/fence, install on site suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19282
25 Sept 2019Conditional
proposed construction of a dormer type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, on site suitable treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19244
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintober (Bonny).
Recorded monuments
- LF023-061001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low ridge in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subcircular area (c. 54m E-W; c. 42m N-S) enclosed from NE-E-ESE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.2-0.6m). From ESE-S-SW the rath has been destroyed due to the construction of an ENE-WSW roadway. From SW-N-NE the bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Adjoining the outer face of the bank at ENE are the foundations of a possible house site (LF023-061002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012
- LF023-061002 House - indeterminate date
Description
Adjoining the outer face of the bank of a rath (LF023-061001-) at ENE are the lower courses of a possible rectangular house (ext. dims. 8.7m ENE-WSW; 7.4m NNW-SSE; wall T 1.4m; H 0.5m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012
- LF023-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying pasture. A raised oval area (c. 41m N-S; c. 31m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.5-3.8m; D 0.1-0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. It is overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintober (Bonny).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballintober (Bonny), 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 Ballintober (Bonny).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballintober (Bonny) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintober (Bonny) · Baile an Tobair (Bonny)
- Area
- 697,878 m² (69.79 ha, 172.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghsheenod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moydow
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober (Rock), Ballynamanagh, Carrickedmond, Knockagh, Screeboge
- Placenames
- Ballintober (Bonny) 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.