Ballycloghan

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycloghan, from 182 m² to 153,497 m² (15.35 ha, 37.93 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 Ballycloghan 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.

• 12 May 2022N/a

  ground fixed solar panel array for use within existing building and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22109

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  changes to relevant elevations and layout to previously granted planning under planning reference number 2119 for proposed two storey dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2215

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  proposed two storey dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2119

• 20 Jan 2021Conditional

  proposed change of dwelling house & garage design from a previously permitted dormer type dwelling house with detached garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter all of which were previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL18/214 to a dormer type dwelling house & detached garage of alternative design than what was previously permitted and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 219

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

  the proposed replacement of existing single storey dwelling, septic tank & soak pit with a dormer dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter together accessing same via widening the existing vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18214

• 17 Oct 2017Refused

  for the proposed construction of a Dormer Type Dwelling House with attached Sun Lounge, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Proprietary Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17260

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 Ballycloghan.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 67m NW-SE; c. 56m NE-SW) enclosed from NNW-N-SSE by a very low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.15m); elsewhere it has been levelled. There is no trace of a fosse or of the original entrance. Extending in an arc from the inner face of the bank at NE towards the centre of the interior, and then curving off in a NNW direction before coming to an abrupt end, is a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.45m; H 0.25m) with fragmentary traces of an accompanying fosse. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that the interior was unequally divided by a low bank running from NW-SE and that there was a small subrectangular annexe, enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone, adjoining it at NE. These features are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying, reclaimed pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath has since been levelled but its location is marked by a low rise (H 0.3m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.2m), which has been modified and incorporated into an NE-SW field boundary from WNW-N-NNE. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow fosse at SE, which is no longer identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is bisected by a low E-W bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) with traces of an accompanying fosse. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-127 Burnt spread
  Description

  First identified during test-trenching, this spread of burnt material was excavated in 2005 in advance of development works. Part of the deposit extended beyond the E limits of the excavation. The excavated portion (20.4m N–S; 8.6m E–W; max D. 0.25m) consisted of a layer of sandy clay and burnt material incorporating a few patches of more intense burning and heat-affected stone. The excavator suggested that the spread is associated with agricultural activity, possibly the burning of rushes (Purcell 2008a, 251). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having windbreak porch to centre of the front elevation (southeast). Two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the northeast gable end. Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with rendered chimneystacks. Flat-roof to windbreak. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered finish to windbreak. Square-headed window opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Square-headed door opening having timber battened door. Attached shed addition to northeast with flat corrugated-metal roof and smooth rendered walls. Northeast gable end aligned at a right-angle to road alignment. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Ardagh.

• Saint Anne's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built c. 1862, having seven-bay nave elevation with additional single-bay chancel section to southeast end. Single-storey gable-fronted sacristy attached to the east side of chancel; single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch attached to the northwest end of southwest elevation of nave. Pitched natural slate roofs to nave, chancel, sacristy and gable-fronted porch, all having raised cut stone verges to gable ends with carved kneeler stones. Carved limestone cross finials to gable apexes of nave, chancel and porch; ashlar limestone chimneystack to northwest gable of sacristy. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked dressed limestone walls over chamfered limestone plinth course, and with flush tooled cut limestone quoins to corners. Pointed arch lancet window openings with tooled chamfered limestone surrounds and leaded stained glass windows. Three graded pointed arch lancet window openings to nave and chancel gables having tooled chamfered limestone surrounds and leaded stained glass windows. Paired pointed segmental-headed window openings to sacristy having tooled chamfered limestone surrounds and fixed-pane timber windows. Pointed arch door opening to front face of porch (southwest) having tooled chamfered limestone surround and double leaf timber battened doors. Infilled pointed arch door opening to northeast elevation of nave having tooled chamfered limestone surround. Pointed segmental-headed doorway to east end of chancel gable, adjacent to sacristy, having tooled chamfered limestone surround and timber battened door. Timber cross-braced roof to nave, ornate plasterwork to chancel ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Ardagh. Freestanding wrought-iron and steel belfry to the northwest of church, set on stepped concrete plinth. Main entrance gateway to the west comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered capstones surmounted by wrought-iron lanterns. Wrought-iron double leaf gates having cross finial over to main entrance, pedestrian entrance adjacent to south. Roughly coursed limestone boundary wall with crenellated coping over to road-frontage.

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 Ballycloghan, 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 Ballycloghan.

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 Ballycloghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ballycloghan · Béal Átha Clocháin

Area

850,017 m² (85 ha, 210.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnasillagh, Carn, Druming

Placenames

Ballycloghan 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.