Ballagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagh, from 173 m² to 135,947 m² (13.59 ha, 33.59 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 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballagh 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 the townland of Ballagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO011-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 32m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4.5m at S to 5.8m at N; int. H 0.2m at S to 0.85m at N; ext. H 1.45-1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.3m; D 0.5-0.85m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.2-0.65m; ext. H 0.1-0.65m), which survives N-SE and at SW. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) and causeway are at E. An NE-SW field bank overlies the fosse and outer bank at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf which is on a gentle NE-facing slope. It is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.1m at W to 6m at NW; int. H 0.2-0.65m; ext. H 0.45-0.65m) SW-NW and a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.45m) SW-WNW. A NW-SE field bank and drain cut the interior towards the perimeter at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-046 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as an oval feature (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low-lying, level landscape. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 23m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.8m) NE-S-NW, which is overlain by a drystone wall SW-W. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-048 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as `Old Corn Kiln', and situated in a hollow. There is no other information and it is not visible at ground level in pasture. There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a disused early modern corn-drying kiln. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 24 June 2015

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballagh, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballagh

Area

685,776 m² (68.58 ha, 169.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Aughrim East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 88 households in the Aughrim East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfad More, Corbaun, Killinaddan, Knocknagawna, Lahagboy, Lisnanuran, Moneyduff

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.