Ballyglass Lower

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass Lower, from 327 m² to 130,749 m² (13.07 ha, 32.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballyglass Lower 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.

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  to construct extension to rear and side of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19594

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 Ballyglass Lower.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a small circular wooded feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope, c. 300m W of Fort George House. Described as an overgrown circular mound defined by a rounded fosse and outer bank (dims 17.5m E-W; 16.5m N-S) (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 21m) defined by traces of a fosse that is most visible at E (Wth 2.8m; D 0.2m). It may be a tree-ring, and enclosure (RO035-050----) is c. 130m to the WSW and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 150m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-053001 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a small circular wooded feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope, c. 50m NW of Fort George House. Described as a circular area (diam. 16m) defined by an earthen bank, a fosse and an outer bank with some evidence of an entrance and causeway at N (Gannon 1972). Only a fragment of the bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m), fosse (Wth of top 6.2m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 1m) and outer bank (Wth 3.8m; ext. H 1.25m) survives at E. It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053002-) is just to the SE and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-053002 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as circular embanked feature (diam c. 30m) with a central mound (diam. c. 5m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NNE-facing slope, immediately N of Fort George House. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.6m). It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053001-) is immediately to the NW and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-053003 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  Gannon (1972) mentions a large heap of stones at the centre of (RO035-053002-) which is no longer in evidence, and which is described as like rubble. 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 Ballyglass Lower.

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 Ballyglass Lower, 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 Ballyglass Lower.

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

Name

Ballyglass Lower

Area

755,581 m² (75.56 ha, 186.71 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonygormican, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Cloonygormican, the unit of the census

Census 2022

441 people lived in 166 households in the Cloonygormican electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass Upper, Ballymacurly South, Clogher, Clooneenbaun, Kiltultoge, Lisnalegan

Placenames

Ballyglass Lower 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.