Ballinlough

172 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 27 m² to 80,403 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Ballinlough 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.

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission to (1) Change of use from Healthcare Centre to residential to include for short term letting (2) Change window to door on rear elevation (3) Connect dwelling to public sewer and associated siteworks and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560093

• 22 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct extension to existing dwelling house and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23267

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct new agricultural entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23165

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain and Permission to complete garage, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services, at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22220

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  Retention permission to retain alterations to ground levels associated with some land reclamation already completed on site, Permission to construct new commercial unit and single storey office building along with hard surface carparking area, new site entrance, boundary treatments and connection to existing public services and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21303

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing rear extension to dwellinghouse and replace with new extension with renovations to same and demolish existing shed on site all as per plans with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20317

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  retention of existing single storey extension which comprises of a dining room with storage area all of which is located to the rear of existing restaurant known as the Old Stone House Restaurant and all ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18650

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  for change of use from Conference Room and ancillary facilities associated with 'The White House' hotel to a Chapel of Rest and Construction of a new entrance porch to the front of the above mentioned Chapel of Rest at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17257

• 16 Feb 2017N/a

  for the Construction of a new entrance porch to the front of existing retail/takeaway unit at the 'White House' and change of use to the above mentioned unit from take away/retail use to a Chapel of Rest at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1766

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 Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

• RO025-016 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Ballylough or O'Flynn's Castle in gothic lettering on both. It is situated towards the SE edge of a flat-toped hill. The O'Flynn were chiefs of Siol Maolruain, a sept of the Uí Brionn, but were not of Silmurry although they attended O'Conor inaugurations. The sept went into decline after the fourteenth century, but they retained lands around Lough O'Flynn. They were also erenaghs of Assylin church (RO005-020001-) near Boyle (MacDermot 1996, 409-10). The foundation of a portion of the castle was visible (Gannon 1972) but it is not visible now on the lawn of a house, although a low wall (Wth c. 0.5m; H 0.3m; L c. 10m) on the boundary between two properties is thought to be part of it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-017001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hillock. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 32.8m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.5m) at SE and a scarp (H 0.5-0.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, and the modernised entrance (Wth 3m) is at SE. The perimeter is truncated slightly by a NW-SE road bank at NE, but possible houses (RO025-017002-) which were visible in 1984 as a low stony mound (dims 6m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) at the centre and inside the perimeter at E (RO025-017003-) (SMR file) can no longer be seen. Archaeological testing (06E0546) c. 130m to the NW failed to produce any relate material (Moore 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-017002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  A possible house site which was visible in 1984 as a low stony mound (dims 6m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) at the centre of rath (RO025-017001-) (SMR file) can no longer be seen. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-017003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  A possible house site which was visible in 1984 inside the perimeter of rath (RO025-017001-) at E (SMR file) can no longer be seen. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-033 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (08E0976) of a sewer trench under existing roads on the outskirts of Ballinlough recorded evidence of a burnt mound in section as a layer of broken and burnt stones (L 11m NW-SE; T c. 0.5m) c. 0.5m beneath the road surface. It was confirmed in a small trench on the other side of the road, so that it would appear to be preserved beneath the road (dim. c. 9m NE-SW). A sample produce evidence of alder, hazel and oak, and produced a C14 date of 1048-851 cal. BC. Rath (RO025-017001-) is c. 115m to the SE.(Ruttle 2011b; Taylor 2012a) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 February, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Kiltullagh Church (Kiltullagh), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built in 1818. Comprising two-bay nave abutting three-stage castellated tower with pinnacles to west and vestry to south-east. Pitched slate roof with rendered and cut stone chimneystacks, limestone coping to gable ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls with random coursed stone to eastern gable wall and to tower. String courses to first and second stages of tower. Pointed-arched traceried windows to nave with stained glass. Tooled limestone surrounds and hood mouldings. Square-headed diamond-paned windows to second stage of tower. Pointed-arched door to north elevation of tower with timber panelled door, tooled stone surround and hood moulding. Replacement timber battened door to vestry. Church set within own grounds with various upright and recumbent grave markers dating from the nineteenth century to the present. Grounds bounded by random coursed stone walls with soldier coping. Stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates 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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballinlough, Castlerea5 sales

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

758,746 m² (75.87 ha, 187.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooninisclin, Cloonlee, Commons, Falledeen, Rabbitburrow, Srah, Willsborough

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.