Ballintober (Rock)
Ballintober (Rock) is a townland in the civil parish of Taghsheenod, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Tobair (Rock).
Parcel 82105
- Area
- 63,761 m² (6.38 ha, 15.76 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 43 m².
- 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
- Ballintober (Rock)
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LF023-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the summit of a high, prominent ridge in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) with evidence of stone-facing in places. At the base of the scarp is a largely infilled fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.1m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- 27.3 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 15,090 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober (Rock), from 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 70,486 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 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 Ballintober (Rock) 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
28 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house with suitable on site sewerage treatment system with percolation area, detached garage together with accessing the proposed dwelling via the existing entrance which already services an existing dwelling house which was granted full planning permission under Pl05/289. Full planning permission is also being sought to access the previously permitted dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under Pl05/289 by reconstructing an existing agricultural entrance to service same and all ancillary site works whereby it is now proposed to increase the site boundaries to match the landowners landholding and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2117
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 Ballintober (Rock).
Recorded monuments
- LF023-022 House - 18th/19th century
Description
Listed in the SMR (1988) as 'C17 House (site of)' there is no evidence to indicate the source of this classification (SMR file). There are the remains of a late 18th/early 19th-century house at this location. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintober (Rock).
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballintober (Rock), 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballintober (Rock).
- 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 Ballintober (Rock) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintober (Rock) · Baile an Tobair (Rock)
- Area
- 273,281 m² (27.33 ha, 67.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghsheenod, 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
- Ballintober (Bonny), Ballygibbagh, Carrickedmond, Screeboge
- Placenames
- Ballintober (Rock) 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.