Ballinlough

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 1,183 m² to 773,368 m² (77.34 ha, 191.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Ballinlough 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.

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter on lands that have the benefit of planning permission for a storey and a half type dwelling house under planning permission reference number PL17/243 and extension of duration of Planning Permission PL22/205 and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460233

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2360194

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  of 17/243 proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached double garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 22205

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the following (A) proposed demolition of an existing detached domestic garage that services an existing bungalow type dwelling house (B) proposed construction of a single storey extension to an existing bungalow type dwelling house together with renovations /alterations to the existing dwelling house (C) retention permission for the retention of an existing recently constructed domestic garage that services the above-mentioned existing bungalow type dwelling house and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22137

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  of PL17/243 proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached double garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 22133

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  the following (a) construction of a milking parlour, milk collection room & amp; partially external bulk tank, ancillary rooms, waiting yard, handling facilities, flow channel and underground slatted tank (b) erection of a meal bin & amp; water storage tank (c) construction of an agricultural cubicle shed, straw bedded area, and 2 No. underground slatted tanks (d) construction of a silage pit, dungstead and effluent holding tank (e) construction of a machinery and straw storage shed (f) construction of a slatted shed with 2 No. underground slatted tanks and handling area and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21332

• 17 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct a 6-bay slatted shed, outdoor cattle handling facilities, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20312

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  (i) of existing extension to the side of existing lounge area servicing existing licenced premises; (ii) retention of existing covered smoking area adjoining the lounge area of existing licenced premises; (iii) retention of the change of use of existing former agricultural storage shed which has been partially converted into a bar area with storage area to service existing licenced premises; (iv) retention of existing recently constructed structure which is used for live music/entertainment on the grounds of existing licenced premises; (v) retention of existing recently constructed structure used as a smoking area to service the aforementioned recently constructed structure used for live music/entertainment, and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 20248

• 6 Mar 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey classroom to service existing National School and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1964

• 20 Sept 2017Conditional

  proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached double garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17243

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  proposed construction of an astro turf playing pitch together with perimeter fencing, lighting, pedestrian access and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1748

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 Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in well-drained pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32.5m) defined by a scarp (H 1.05-2m). From NNE-E-SE the scarp and a portion of the interior have been levelled. In addition, a portion of the scarp has been quarried away at S. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballinlough House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1770 and altered c. 1820 and c. 1850, with two-storey return and single-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest). Possibly incorporating fabric of an earlier dwelling. Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, two rendered central chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, partially removed roughly dressed coursed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having tooled cut limestone sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Render removed to ground floor revealing red brick voussoirs and larger cut limestone voussoirs with prominent keystones of former wide window openings, now partially blocked. Round-headed window to stairwell on northeast elevation, having tooled cut limestone sills and four-over-four timber sliding sash windows. Carved limestone Palladian style door case to centre of the front face (southeast) comprising engaged columns surmounted by an open base pediment and spoked cobweb fanlight, and having double leaf timber panelled door. Timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (northwest) having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, one having a red brick chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls to interior (exposed rubble stone to rear), and with square-headed window and door openings and segmental-headed archways. Projecting gable-fronted porch to the exterior face of the northeast range of outbuildings. Massive stone buttresses to exterior face of walls to the southwest corner of yard; stone buttresses to the exterior face of northwest elevation; blocked segmental-headed archway to the southwest elevation having cut stone voussoirs. Gateway to yard to the southwest side of house. Set well back from road in extensive grounds to the west/northwest of Granard. House set in an elevated location adjacent to Ballin Lough, Ballinlough River and Killeen Lough, recessed from the road. Bridge over Ballinlough River to southwest of house, not investigated.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

1,319,549 m² (131.95 ha, 326.07 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Bunlahy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bunlahy electoral division: 225 people in 79 households; 82% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagreagh, Bunlahy, Coolcor, Halfcartron, Killeen

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.