Ballyhammon
Ballyhammon is a townland in the civil parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 678013
- Area
- 27,229 m² (2.72 ha, 6.73 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyhammon
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 59 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,486 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhammon, from 548 m² to 484,086 m² (48.41 ha, 119.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhammon 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ballyhammon 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhammon.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight W-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 28m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) and outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 3.6m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.5m) which are incorporated into a field bank and townland boundary with Carrownaskeagh (at S: Wth 3.1m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m) and external drain (at S: Wth of base 1.3m; D 0.9m) ESE-WSW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-074 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope with a W-E section of a SW-NE river c. 80m to the N. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 35m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5-6m;Wth of top 3m; int. H 0.4-1.1m; ext. H 1.4m) and rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.4-2.6m; D 0.6-0.7m), with the remains of an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.8m) NW-NE. Gannon (1972) records an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at S which is now widened (Wth 4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a low E-W drumlin ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Ballyhammon.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhammon.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyhammon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhammon
- Area
- 589,886 m² (58.99 ha, 145.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lissonuffy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Strokestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,232 people lived in 529 households in the Strokestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownaskeagh, Carrowntryla, Castlenode, Farnmore, Lissaphobble, Newtown
- Placenames
- Ballyhammon 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.