Ballymartin Beg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartin Beg, from 1,426 m² to 103,333 m² (10.33 ha, 25.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymartin Beg 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.

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  to upgrade existing entrance with a new bell mouth entrance onto the public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation and all ancillary site development at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17156

• 10 Mar 2017N/a

  To upgrade existing entrance with a new bell mouth entrance onto the public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17101

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 Ballymartin Beg.

Recorded monuments

• RO039-069001 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  A mill is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949), and a mill is marked on the 1837 and 1927 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the S bank of the NW-SE River Hind, on the E side of a road. There is no evidence of a mill, but a millrace which has been widened (Wth of base 6m; D 2-2.3m; L c. 50m), probably in the 18th or 19th century, survives, the rest of it being covered with spoil. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-069004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Octagonal stone (dim. 0.68m; H 0.15m) with a central perforation is sitting on top of a gate-pier just SW of the mill (RO039-064001). 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 Ballymartin Beg.

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1371 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymartin Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballymartin Beg

Area

465,241 m² (46.52 ha, 114.96 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roscommon Rural electoral division: 5,513 people in 1,881 households; 68% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinagard, Ballymartin More, Bolinree, Derrydonnell, Tromaun

Placenames

Ballymartin Beg 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.