Ballyhugh
Ballyhugh is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 12.8 ha
- 32 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 127,580 m² (12.76 ha, 31.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyhugh, from 127,580 m² (12.76 ha, 31.53 acres) to 127,580 m² (12.76 ha, 31.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhugh 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
15 Sept 2025N/a
Permission to install a 36m multi-user lattice type telecommunications support structure carrying antenna, dishes together with associated ground equipment cabinets enclosed within a 2.4 metre palisade fenced compound and associated site works including an access track on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560445
29 Aug 2025N/a
Permission to install a 36m multi-user lattice type telecommunications support structure carrying antenna, dishes together with associated ground equipment cabinets enclosed within a 2.4 metre palisade fenced compound and associated site works including an access track on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560417
2 Jun 2022N/a
Retention Permission for a five bay double slatted cattle shed on lands at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22269
27 May 2022N/a
Retention of a five bay double slatted cattle shed on lands at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22254
12 Apr 2022N/a
Retention of a five bay double slatted cattle shed on lands at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22183
7 Jan 2022N/a
Permission to construct a five bay double slatted cattle shed with calf creep and loose area at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 224
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 Ballyhugh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhugh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhugh.
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 Ballyhugh, 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyhugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhugh
- Area
- 127,580 m² (12.76 ha, 31.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballyhugh 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.