Ballyboy

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 452 m² to 142,942 m² (14.29 ha, 35.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyboy 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a dormer type bungalow, detached garage, entrance, boundary walls/fence and piers, onsite suitable treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2549

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460033

• 8 Jan 2024Refused

  proposed demolition of existing derelict dwelling house together with the proposed replacement of same with a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460006

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a lighting arrangement, the development will consist of permission to erect 24 number 6 meter high poles with a 1 meter outreach off the light on each pole and attached ancillary site works COVID 19

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2050

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 Ballyboy.

Recorded monuments

• LF011-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in otherwise level pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled but its outline is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• LF011-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent hillock in well-drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF011-041001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (44.8m NW-SE; 35.6m NE-SW) enclosed by four very wide low banks of earth and stone and four fosses. Only the innermost bank (Wth 6.8m; H 0.35m max.) and fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.45m) are identifiable all round. The other banks and fosses have been levelled to a greater or lesser extent due to the construction of modern NW-SE and NE-SW field boundaries and land reclamation. The second bank (Wth 10.3m; H 0.9m) is visible from ESE-W-NNE. The second fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.4m) survives from SSW-N-NNE. The third bank (Wth 8.4m; H 0.45m) is evident from WSW-W-NNW. Although levelled, its outline may also be traced from SW-WSW. The third fosse (Wth 3.9m; D 0.35m) also survives from WSW-W-NNW. The outermost bank (Wth 6.1m; H 0.3m) is visible from WNW-NW-NNW. Again although levelled, its outline may also be traced from W-WNW. The outermost fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.15m) has been infilled. However, its outline is still traceable from WNW-NW-NNW. A well-defined break (Wth 3.2m) in the innermost bank, with an accompanying causeway across the innermost fosse at ESE, marks the original entrance. Centrally located within the interior is a rectangular house site (LF011-041002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF011-041002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Centrally located within the interior of a rath (LF011-041001-). This rectangular house site (10.2m NW-SE; 9.3m NE-SW) is enclosed by a low but well-defined bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.9m; H 0.25m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.55m) at SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF011-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed, low-lying pasture adjacent to a stream. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the rath had been largely levelled due to the construction of a modern NE-SW field boundary. Extant remains at that date comprised two low banks of earth and stone with a wide, deep, intervening fosse extending in an arc from ENE-S-SSW. Elsewhere only the outline was identifiable. The enclosed area was c. 36m in diameter. The rath has subsequently been completelly levelled and it is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF011-050 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope c. 15m to the NE of a stream. Described by O’Donovan in 1837 as a a 'well of great sanctity probably of Pagan origin' (OSL, 6). Farrell (1891, 266) recorded that this was 'the sacred well of Tober-reendonny’, or ‘the Well of the King of Sunday'. In 1944 it was noted that although it was 'still regarded as a holy well in the locality … it has few visitors nowadays' (ITA Survey). It has since been filled in. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyboy.

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

Name

Ballyboy · An Bhuaile Bhuí

Area

1,057,478 m² (105.75 ha, 261.31 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeylara, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Firry, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonaghmore, Cooldoney, Kilbride, Rincoolagh, Robinstown

Placenames

Ballyboy 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.