Ballyreaghan

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyreaghan, from 111 m² to 97,257 m² (9.73 ha, 24.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Ballyreaghan 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.

• 10 Oct 2024Conditional

  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, 2460225

• 9 Jun 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360043

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2332

• 11 Mar 2021N/a

  for the installation of a rock cutting guillotine for the processing, cutting and shaping of rock suitable for building stone. Planning permission is also sought for all ancillary quarrying activities and site development works at existing registered working quarry

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2171

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 Ballyreaghan.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 45m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.3-5.6m; H 0.3-0.65m) at NW, from ENE-E and at S, and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.3m). A very shallow intervening fosse (Wth 4.8-5.4m; D 0.2m) is visible from WNW-N-NE and from E-ESE-SE. An outer bank (Wth 5-5.2m; H 1.2m) and outer fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.2-0.4m) survive from WNW-N-NE. The original entrance is not recognisable. A modern field boundary cuts the monument at W and N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that, although levelled, the outline of a bank and an external fosse could still be traced enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 40m). The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF010-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a very low rise in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area (27m E-W; 25.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.35m). At the base of the scarp from NNW-N is a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2-0.3m). From SW-W-NW it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A modern roadway skirts the base of the scarp at SE. Also at SE a portion of the monument has been quarried away. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF010-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyreaghan, 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 Ballyreaghan.

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

Name

Ballyreaghan · Baile an Riacháin

Area

985,829 m² (98.58 ha, 243.6 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, Ballynascraw, Clonbroney, Clooncoose, Derryneel, Kilshruley, Knockmoody, Leitrim, Listraghee, Tullybaun

Placenames

Ballyreaghan 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.