Bally More
Bally More is a townland in the civil parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 78.1 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 28,044 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bally More, from 366 m² to 111,722 m² (11.17 ha, 27.61 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bally More 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
1 Sept 2020Conditional
for 87.5 sq. m. extension to main agriculture shed and for 95 sq. m. agriculture equipment shed in existing farmyard and Permission for construction of 31.2 sq. m. dungstead and construction of 215 sq.m extension to main shed to include a slatted area and all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20338
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 Bally More.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-125 Promontory fort - inland
Description
On a low-lying spur which projects W from the W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn, and lying between two streams which converge at W. Oval, grass-covered level area (dims 44.8m E-W; 34.7m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.4m) and flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 3.4m; D 1.9m) at E, the natural wooded slope (H 6m; Wth 8m) with an overgrown field bank (Wth of top 1.7m; int. H 0.7m) on top at S, a scarp (H 1.7m; Wth 3.2m) and berm (Wth 3.2m) over the natural wooded slope (H 5m; Wth 12m) at W, and the natural wooded slope (H 8m; Wth 12m) at N. There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) and causeway (Wth 4m; H 0.7m) at the centre of the perimeter at E. Rath (RO029-126----) is c. 120m to the E. 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 Bally More.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bally More, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bally More.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bally More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Bally More
- Area
- 781,283 m² (78.13 ha, 193.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lissonuffy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Killavackan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 229 people lived in 89 households in the Killavackan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinafad, Bally Beg, Ballyduffy, Curraghduffy, Lackan
- Placenames
- Bally More 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.