# Balloony, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 532,432 m² (53.24 ha, 131.57 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 60,770 m² (6.08 ha, 15.02 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Baslick, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/baslick.md
- Barony: Castlereagh
- Electoral division: Castleplunket, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43460
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190145
- Centre: latitude 53.779868, longitude -8.335305 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloony, from 50 m² to 145,100 m² (14.51 ha, 35.86 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 705231: 145,100 m² (14.51 ha, 35.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705231.md
- Parcel 662307: 139,355 m² (13.94 ha, 34.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/662307.md
- Parcel 696091: 120,500 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696091.md
- Parcel 653526: 76,057 m² (7.61 ha, 18.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/653526.md
- Parcel 679816: 45,483 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679816.md
- Parcel 655954: 4,391 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/655954.md
- Parcel 670155: 1,593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/670155.md
- Parcel 2440312: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2440312.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 22 Jul 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560356: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560356/0
- 21 Jul 2021, Roscommon County Council 21415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/21415/0
- 7 May 2020, Roscommon County Council 20165: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/20165/0
- 4 Mar 2020, Roscommon County Council 2091: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2091/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balloony.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO021-042035: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-042035-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-042036-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balloony.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/balloony.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/balloony.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/balloony.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Balloony with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carnakit: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carnakit.md
- Castleruby: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/castleruby.md
- Gortnasillagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortnasillagh.md
- Rathfuadagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rathfuadagh.md
- Tonroe: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tonroe.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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