Balnagall

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balnagall, from 1,595 m² to 126,364 m² (12.64 ha, 31.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a storey and a half type dwelling house with single storey elements, detached domestic garage, bored well, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660241

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  the following; (A) existing single storey extension to the side of existing two storey type dwelling house and (B) existing single storey detached domestic garage which services the existing dwelling house. In addition, Full Planning Permission is being sought for the proposed construction of a single-story extension to the rear and side of the existing two storey type dwelling house, internal renovations and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560133

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  (a) the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing bungalow type dwelling house to include internal and external alterations to existing dwelling and (b) alterations to existing garage to include a new pitched roof and external alterations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360159

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  provision of new farm access and entrance gate and all ancillary site works (COVID 19b)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2076

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 Balnagall.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep N-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (36m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-1.1m) with a partially infilled external fosse (Wth c. 6m; D 0.6m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been either at NW or NE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a low drumlin. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by traces of a levelled bank of earth and stone at NE and SW and otherwise defined by a scarp (H 0.3 - 1.4m), the height and steepness of which varies according to the natural slope of the drumlin. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. The monument is divided into unequal portions by a modern NE-SW field boundary. The smaller portion, to the SE, has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, having extensions to rear (northeast). Now in disuse. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered brick chimneystacks. Remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with remains of one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and with painted concrete sills. Central square-headed opening with glazed overlight, sidelights and timber panelled double doors. Set back from the road in its own grounds to the northwest of Granard town centre. Complex of single-storey outbuilding to rear (northeast). Roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage (southwest). Pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and a wrought-iron gate to entrance.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Balnagall.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Balnagall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Balnagall · Baile na nGall

Area

444,202 m² (44.42 ha, 109.76 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Urban electoral division: 1,268 people in 494 households; 47% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygilchrist, Churchquarter, Gallid, Granardkill, Mullingee, Tromra

Placenames

Balnagall 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.