Balloony

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloony, from 50 m² to 145,100 m² (14.51 ha, 35.86 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 Balloony 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.

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1. To demolish existing front porch and sheds, 2. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations, 3. To construct new extension to same, 4. To upgrade treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560356

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for a change of house type for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance pillars and gates and associated siteworks from that previously granted permission under planning reference number PD/20/165 at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21415

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  for demolition of the existing two storey dwelling house and outhouses with construction of single storey replacement dwelling house, provision of a new vehicular entrance with the existing entrance being closed and the installation of a new wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, soakpit with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20165

• 4 Mar 2020N/a

  the demolition of the existing two storey dwelling house and outhouses with construction of a single storey replacement dwelling house, provision of a new vehicular entrance with the existing entrance being closed and the installation of a new water treatment plant, percolation area, soakpit with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2091

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 Balloony.

Recorded monuments

• RO021-042035 Mound
  Description

  On a slight rise at the N edge of a low plateau. Small earth and stone mound (dims. 2m x 1.5m; H 0.3m). (Herity 1983, 137; 1984, 134) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-042036 Pitfield
  Description

  Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 2/4209) and situated on a gentle N-facing slope. An area of c. 3 ha (c. 7 acres) has some rectangular pits (dims c. 10m x 2m; D c. 0.3m) generally aligned E-W and placed c. 30m apart, the lines being c. 30m from each other. 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 Balloony.

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 Balloony, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balloony

Area

532,432 m² (53.24 ha, 131.57 acres)

Civil parish

Baslick, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnakit, Castleruby, Gortnasillagh, Rathfuadagh, Tonroe

Placenames

Balloony 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.