Ballyforan

178 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyforan, from 17 m² to 192,582 m² (19.26 ha, 47.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyforan 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.

• 25 May 2026N/a

  Outline Planning Permission to establish the principle of development for a community amenity at Claremont House, on a site of approximately 1.85 hectares. The proposed development will consist of: (a) a public park including naturalised planting, tree planting and pedestrian paths; (b) a new community centre of 1,566 m² incorporating the retained walls of the existing derelict coach house; (c) refurbishment and internal reconfiguration of the existing derelict Claremont House as a Park Pavilion of 388 m²; (d) 4 no. glamping units ancillary to the Park Pavilion; (e) vehicular and pedestrian access onto the R363, car and bicycle parking; and (f) connection to public water and wastewater services, surface water drainage, and all associated landscaping and site works. Detailed design and technical particulars to be the subject of a consequent application at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660252

• 26 Mar 2026N/a

  Permission for re-development of site for public amenity to include change of use of the existing grounds to a public park, change of use of the existing derelict coach house to a Community Centre and change of use of the existing derelict detached dwelling to a Public Park Pavilion at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660133

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for change of use from an existing commercial Garda Station into a residential dwelling house along with all associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24149

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage, with septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21520

• 18 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to dwelling house and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21472

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, new connection to existing public foul sewer and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20530

• 19 Nov 2020N/a

  planning permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, new connection to existing public foul sewer and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20487

• 30 Sept 2020Conditional

  for erection of pre cast concrete hurling wall at club grounds at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20392

• 4 Sept 2020N/a

  for erection of pre cast concrete hurling wall at club grounds at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20345

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  retention permission and permission for completion of 3 No. dwelling houses and associated works, previously approved as House Numbers 5,6 & 7 (House Type A) under Planning Reference Numbers PD/04/192 & PD/07/328 at

  Retention, 3 homes · Roscommon County Council, 19507

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  for erection of Lighting Standards to Walking Track around perimeter of Playing Pitches to

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18470

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a four bay single slatted cattle shed with lie back on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17500

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyforan.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyforan Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Thirteen-arch road over river bridge, built c.1820. Segmental-headed arches with cut limestone voussoirs to arch rings, cement gunnelling to soffits. Coursed random rubble limestone to spandrels and parapets, flat stone copings, cross-headed cast-iron tie bars to spandrels. Triangular ashlar cutwaters with pyramidal coping. Central nine arches larger than outer flanking pairs. Tarmacadamed carriageway. Random rubble limestone walls to adjacent fields, car park to east.

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built 1857, with castellated two-stage tower to west, sacristy to east and three-bay nave. Pitched slate roof with iron cross finial to east gable and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed cut limestone walls with buttresses to nave. Round-headed window openings with tooled limestone block-and-start surround, stone sills and stained-glass windows. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone block-and-start surround, replacement timber battened door. Single-cell nave with square-ended chancel and replacement open timber truss roof. Church set back from road within its own grounds and with various grave markers dedicated to former parish priests. Site bounded by random coursed stone wall. Cut stone gate piers with cast-iron gates and pedestrian wrought-iron kissing gate to west.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1860, now disused. Comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with spout and fluted ogee-domed cap with finial. The spout has foliate decoration where it meets the neck. Cow tail style handle. Stone trough to front. Pump situated at a prominent corner within Ballyforan.

• Foot bridge, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-span pedestrian foot bridge, built c.1900, supported on stone piers with V-cutwaters up and down stream. The bridge spans the River Suck.

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 Ballyforan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ballyforan · Béal Átha Feorainne

Area

1,913,936 m² (191.39 ha, 472.94 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 177 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina, Cloonagh, Coolatober, Creeharmore, Derreen (Co. Galway), Derryfadda (Co. Galway), Gortananny (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Ballyforan 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.