Ballinloughquarter
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Ceathrú Bhaile an Locha
- Area
- 44 ha
- 109 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 8,687 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinloughquarter, from 218 m² to 93,321 m² (9.33 ha, 23.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballinloughquarter 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
26 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for conservation and renovation works including internal alterations, alterations to external openings on the north and south elevations of the east wing, a ground floor extension to the east wing and all associated site works including the replacement of the existing septic tank system with a new treatment plant and percolation area. The conservation works include works to the roof, treatment of timbers and replacement as necessary, recasting of plaster moulds, treatment and replacement of rotted components as necessary to all windows, doors and joinery items. The Building is a Protected Structure (RCC RPS No. 02600559) at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460193
12 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for Conservation and renovation works including internal alterations, alterations to external openings on the north and south elevations of the east wing, a ground floor extension to the east wing and all associated site works including the replacement of the existing septic tank system with a new treatment plant and percolation area. The conservation works include works to the roof, treatment of timbers and replacement as necessary, recasting of plaster moulds, treatment and replacement of rotted components as necessary to all windows, doors and joinery items. The Building is a Protected Structure (RCC RPS No. 02600559) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460164
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 Ballinloughquarter.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinloughquarter.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinloughquarter.
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 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 Ballinloughquarter.
- 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 Ballinloughquarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinloughquarter · Ceathrú Bhaile an Locha
- Area
- 440,397 m² (44.04 ha, 108.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Coolougher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolougher electoral division: 509 people in 196 households; 93% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashlieve, Churchquarter, Cloonlish or Robinhood, Derryharraun East, Derryharraun West, Marystown, Mountain Upper, Roadquarter, Stonepark
- Placenames
- Ballinloughquarter 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.