Ballinturly

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinturly, from 17,505 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres) to 316,440 m² (31.64 ha, 78.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballinturly 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinturly in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballinturly Turlough SAC 000588
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinturly Turlough 000588

Recorded monuments

• RO041-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope. Visible as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank NW-SE separated by a fosse from an outer bank and outer fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 100m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BDK 71), and described as a circular area defined by two earthen banks and fosses (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture, although the cropmark of an enclosure with two defining parched features representing banks can be seen on the OSI aerial images (2005, 2010). The rath (RO041-016----) is c. 10m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 25 June 2018

• RO041-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight S-facing slope. It was removed before the 1970s (CUCAP: BDK 71) and is not visible at ground level in pasture but it can be seen as a cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by the parch mark of a bank with an outer fosse on OSI aerial images (2005). Rath (RO041-015----) is c. 10m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-098001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle belonging to Richard Clifford at Ballinturly had been destroyed by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 117) but it is not marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (462)), although the turlough is and Sir Charles Coote held a Quarter of land there amounting to 72 acres (ibid. 126). It is situated at the bottom of a N-facing slope and at the S edge of an E-W turlough. This is a rectangular grass-covered cairn (dims 19m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.2-1.2m) with the outline of two chambers (dims c. 6m x c. 5m) defined by grass-covered banks (Wth c. 2.5m) with wall-faces occasionally visible. This is located in the NW corner of a subrectagular grass-covered enclosure (RO041-098002-) (dims 63.3m N-S; 45.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.1m at N to 0.7m at E) N-E-SW which is replaced by a drain (Wth c. 5m) SW-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 6m) at the centre of the S side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-098002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a N-facing slope and at the S edge of an E-W turlough. A castle (RO041-098001-) is located in the NW corner of a subrectagular grass-covered enclosure (dims 63.3m N-S; 45.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.1m at N to 0.7m at E) N-SW which is replaced by a drain (Wth c. 5m) SW-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 6m) at the centre of the S side. 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 Ballinturly.

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 Ballinturly, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1340 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballinturly

Area

1,487,439 m² (148.74 ha, 367.55 acres)

Civil parish

Fuerty, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Fuerty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

796 people lived in 283 households in the Fuerty electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Carrowstellan, Castlestrange, Clooneen, Cloonyourish, Correal

Placenames

Ballinturly 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.