Ballaghgowla and Froghan

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghgowla and Froghan, from 168 m² to 267,792 m² (26.78 ha, 66.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballaghgowla and Froghan 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  proposed storage shed, slatted storage tank & bedded shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560027

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  to (a) construct a single storey extension to north side of existing dwelling and (b) make internal alterations and all associated site development works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360198

• 24 Oct 2023N/a

  A (demolition of existing agricultural building), B (construction of new pasteurisation facility), C (bottle vending machine within existing farm building), D (changes to access and provision of parking area) and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360181

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21363

• 30 Oct 2019Conditional

  proposed cubicle shed with slatted area, new walled silo base with apron and effluent tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19277

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  Changes to existing dwelling to include extension to side and rear, relevant changes to elevations, amendments to also include upgrade and installation of waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 17144

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  Proposed external milk storage tank to front of dairy and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17116

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 Ballaghgowla and Froghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghgowla and Froghan.

Architectural heritage

• Ballaghgowla House, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1870, having two-storey elevation and two-storey return to rear (southwest). Lean-to single-bay half-glazed timber porch to the centre of the front elevation (northeast). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roofs with cut stone eaves course and painted rendered chimneystacks having some remaining terracotta chimney pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window opening to rear at first floor level, lighting stair hall, having margin glazing with coloured glass. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding adjoining rear return (southwest) to house having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber and replacement corrugated-steel fittings. Later extension to the southwest gable end. Timber battened hayloft elevated on cast-iron Doric columns to re-entrant corner of return and outbuilding. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to northwest of yard with single-pitch corrugated-metal roof, cut stone eaves course, rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber fittings (two-over two timber sash windows and remains of timber battened doors), and segmental-headed carriage arch with cut stone voussoirs. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to west of yard (attached to above outbuilding) with single-pitch corrugated-metal roof, rubble limestone walls with flushed roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners, square-headed openings with dressed limestone voussoirs and corrugated-metal fittings. Set back from road to the south of Granard, southwest side of house facing road. Main entrance gate to the north having squared rubble limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with chamfered capstones and hooped wrought-iron double gates. Pedestrian gateway to the west of house having a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with capstones and wrought-iron flat bar turnstile gate. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

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 Ballaghgowla and Froghan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaghgowla and Froghan.

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 Ballaghgowla and Froghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballaghgowla and Froghan · Bealach Gabhla agus An Fraochán

Area

924,132 m² (92.41 ha, 228.36 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Coolamber, the unit of the census

Census 2022

397 people lived in 131 households in the Coolamber electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh, Caherdague, Cloonshannagh or Coolamber Manor Demesne, Curry, Lechurragh, Lisryan, Moatavally

Placenames

Ballaghgowla and Froghan 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.