Ballagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgefin, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish An Bealach
- Area
- 74.5 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 8,825 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagh, from 334 m² to 133,050 m² (13.3 ha, 32.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballagh 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
1 Jul 2019Conditional
for the erection of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, installation of proprietary effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19339
20 May 2019N/a
for the erection of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, installation of proprietary effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19269
21 Nov 2018Conditional
for the proposed erection of a 4.5m High Flag Pole with associated banner and all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18576
21 Sept 2018N/a
Planning permission to extend dwelling house and all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18484
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Corbo Bog SAC 002349
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corbo Bog 000602
Recorded monuments
- RO036-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 40m N-S at E) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed 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 Ballagh.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1459 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballagh · An Bealach
- Area
- 745,261 m² (74.53 ha, 184.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgefin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Drumdaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumdaff electoral division: 481 people in 186 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurry, Cloonageeragh, Clooncashel Beg, Cloonshee (Connor), Cloonshee (Hartland), Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh, Kilnalosset
- Placenames
- Ballagh 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.