Ballyglass Upper

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass Upper, from 1,222 m² to 196,303 m² (19.63 ha, 48.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Upper 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

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  to refurbish and extend existing dwelling, demolish existing rear extension, decommission septic tank and percolation area, install proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area, associated development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19223

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-050 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. 450m WSW of Fort George House. Described as a small subcircular platform (dims 19m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by a fosse (Gannon 1972). It is now visible in grassland as a circular area (diam. 22m) defined by slight traces of a fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m). It may have been a tree-ring, and enclosure (RO035-051----) is c. 130m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a small circular and embanked wooded feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the N-facing crest of a hill and c. 150m SW of Fort George House. Described as a subcircular area (dims 18.5m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and fosse (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 20m) defined by a slight fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.05m). It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-051----) is c. 150m to the WNW and enclosures (RO035-053001-; RO035-053002-) are c. 130m to the NE. 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 Upper.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyglass Upper

Area

2,179,733 m² (217.97 ha, 538.62 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 Lower, Clogher, Clooneenbaun, Runnabackan

Placenames

Ballyglass Upper 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.