Ballaghabawmore

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghabawmore, from 167 m² to 113,631 m² (11.36 ha, 28.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballaghabawmore 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.

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  Permission for the refurbishment of, and to extend dwelling house, construct new front boundary wall, upgrade existing septic tank with a new sewerage system and a treatment plant to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23127

• 24 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission to re-construct and extend dwelling house, construct new front boundary wall, upgrade existing septic tank with a new sewerage system and a treatment plant, provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2393

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey dwelling and domestic garage with wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21316

• 8 Nov 2018Refused

  to construct dwelling house and waste water treatment plant and percolation area together with new entrance onto public road and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18558

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: Brierfield Turlough 000594

Recorded monuments

• RO028-114001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a broad WNW-ESE ridge c. 550m S of the WNW-ESE Carnfree ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43.7m N-S; 42.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.5m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 2-2.4m) separated by a complete fosse (Wth of top 6-8m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.3-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.3-4.8m; H 0.3-0.8m) S-E. The entrance causeway (Wth 3m) is at SE and the interior is bisected by a N-S field bank and drain. Archaeological testing (03E0825) c. 90m to the SW failed to produce any related material (Read 2006). See the attached aerial view taken from the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-127001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the crest of the S end of a broad NW-SE ridge overlooking a turlough c. 200m to the SW. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.5m N-S; 33m E-W; H 0.0.3-0.7m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.2-0.7m), with a slight outer bank (Wth 6m; ext. H 0.1m) N-E-S. The perimeter of the platform is damaged by quarries N-E, and the spoil was probably added to the interior making a domed mound (diam. 16.5m N-S; 15.8m E-W; H 0.4m). Ring-barrow (RO028-127002-) is 10m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-127002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the crest of the S end of a broad NW-SE ridge overlooking a turlough c. 200m to the SW. Subcircular, domed and grass-covered mound (dims 16m WNW-ESE; 14m NNE-SSW; H 0.5-0.7m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth of base 5-7.5m; D 0.2-0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 7-7.6m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m). There is a shallow quarry (diam. c. 12m; D 0.1m) on the perimeter where it is conjoined with the bank of ring-barrow (RO028-127003-) immediately to the E, and ring-barrow (RO028-127001-) is 10m to the W (max. ext. diam. 42.2m NNE-SSW). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-127003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the crest of the S end of a broad NW-SE ridge overlooking a turlough c. 200m to the SW. Circular, domed and grass-covered mound (diam. 13.6m N-S; 13.4m E-W; H 0.6m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth of base 7-10m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (at N: Wth 5.4m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-W-NE. The fosse is reduced to a berm (Wth 10-13m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) NE-E-SW, and the perimeter is clipped by a NW-SE field bank at NE and by a NE-SW field bank at SE. There is a shallow quarry (diam. 12m; D 0.1m) on the perimeter where it is conjoined with ring-barrow (RO-028-127002-) immediately to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-177 Crannog
  Description

  About 160m from the NE shore of a triangular turlough (dims c. 1 km NW-SE; c. 600m NE-SW at SE). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 27.4m N-S; 23.8m E-W; H 0.6-1m). It is overlain by a collapsed ENE-WSW drystone wall, and crannog (RO028-176----) is c. 200m to the WNW. (Herity 1987a, 139) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballaghabawmore, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballaghabawmore

Area

914,633 m² (91.46 ha, 226.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ogulla, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Ogulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

399 people lived in 161 households in the Ogulla electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghabawbeg, Brierfield, Carns, Carrowbaun, Dooneen, Lismurtagh, Lismurtagh, Tonbaun

Placenames

Ballaghabawmore 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.