Ballinafad

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinafad, from 446 m² to 190,050 m² (19.01 ha, 46.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballinafad 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.

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360019

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 Ballinafad.

Recorded monuments

• RO029-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of a low N-S ridge, on the gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (dims 46m N-S; 33m E-W) used as a garden, defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5.3-7.5m; Wth of top 1.4-3.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1-1.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) incorporated into a field bank NNW-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-6.2m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.6-1m) which is re-cut as a drain and pond S-W. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Rath (RO029-124----) is c. 210m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of the S end of a low N-S ridge on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.8-4.3m; Wth of top 2-2.4m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 0.9-1.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) SW-NW, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.4-5m; Wth of base 2.6-3m; D 0.5-0.6m), which is re-cut as a drain and circumscribed by a field bank SW-NW. There is a widened entrance (Wth 4m) and causeway (Wth 4m) at N. Rath (RO029-123----) is c. 200m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope with the SW-NE Scramoge river c. 50m to the SE. Oval overgrown area (dims 50m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 7.3m; Wth of top 2.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m) W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) NNW-ENE, and incorporated into a field bank elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, although there is an outer drain W-NNW and a drain inside the bank at E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at SW. Rath (RO029-101----) is c. 210m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-140001 Church
  Description

  On top of a broad hill, and described as an old church called Tamplereagh by J. O'Donovan in 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 42). It is depicted on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 90m) defined by field banks WSW-N-ESE. It is known locally as Teampull church, and the graveyard (RO029-140002-) is described locally as an area of about 2 acres (c. 0.8ha) which contained low mounds but no grave markers. The graveyard is an ecclesiastical enclosure defined by a field bank and hedge WSW-N, but the perimeter N-ESE has been removed and no mounds are now visible in pasture. The outline of the enclosure (diam. c. 80m) is visible as a fosse feature on the OSI aerial images (2005) and Bing (c. 2013). A point on the perimeter at NW consisting of a stone wall (L 2.5m E-W; H 0.6m; T c. 2m) with a wall running SSW from its W end (L 2.5m; H 1m; T 1m) is regarded as the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-140002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On top of a broad hill, and described as an old church called Tamplereagh by J. O'Donovan in 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 42). It is depicted on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 90m) defined by curving field banks WSW-N-ESE. It is known locally as Teampull church, and the graveyard is described locally as an area of about 2 acres (c. 0.8ha) which contained low mounds but no grave markers. The graveyard is an ecclesiastical enclosure defined by a field bank and hedge WSW-N, but the perimeter N-ESE has been removed and no mounds are now visible in pasture. The outline of the enclosure (diam. c. 80m) is visible as a fosse feature on the OSI aerial images (2005) and Bing (c. 2013). A point on the perimeter at NW is regarded as the church (RO9029-140001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-150 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  At the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope. Probably built by the King family in the early 18th century and described as Ballinafad House on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Rectangular masonry structure (ext. dims 21.6m N-S; 7.55m E-W) of two storeys and six bays, surviving complete apart from the W wall and much of the S wall. The doorway (Wth 1.55m) at the centre of the E wall led to a passage (L c. 6m; Wth 1.3m) running S to what was probably the servants area. The principal room is to the N of the entrance doorway and has a round-headed recess (Wth 2.05m) with a pointed window in the E wall. The chimney block in the N wall of this room also provided a fireplace for the N room (int. dims 6.45m E-W; 3.65m N-S). The first floor has similar fenestration with the addition of a large window in the N wall. 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 Ballinafad.

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 Ballinafad, 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 Ballinafad.

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

Name

Ballinafad

Area

1,117,004 m² (111.7 ha, 276.02 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonfinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

176 people lived in 77 households in the Cloonfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bally Beg, Bally More, Coggalmore, Coggalstack, Lackan, Lissonuffy, Moher

Placenames

Ballinafad 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.