Ballymurray

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurray, from 521 m² to 108,009 m² (10.8 ha, 26.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballymurray 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymurray in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballymurray.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-009001 Field system
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan. An area of c. 8 ha (c. 19 acres) contains field banks creating incomplete rectangular fields (dims c. 100m x c. 100m) and two rectangular enclosures (RO022-009003-; RO022-009004-). Two mounds (RO022-009006-; RO022-009007-) are within the area. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-009002 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a rise at the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan. An area of c. 3 ha (c. 8 acres) contains field banks forming small rectangular fields (dims 14m x 12m to c. 30m x c. 30m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-009003 Enclosure
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 30m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by low earthen banks (Wth c. 2-3m; H 0.3m) on all sides except the N where there is a scarp (H c. 0.3m). Enclosure (RO022-009004-) is attached to the E. The subcircular grass-covered mound (RO022-009006-) (dims 6m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4m) is immediately to the N, and the grass-covered mound (RO022-009007-) (dims of base 9.5m E-W; 8.6m N-S) with a flat top (dims 4.9m N-S; 4.3m E-W; H 0.3-0.6m) is c. 30m to the N . Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-009004 Enclosure
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 21m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by low earthen banks (Wth c. 2-3m; H 0.3m) on all sides except the N where there is a scarp (H c. 0.3m). Enclosure (RO022-009003-) is attached to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-009006 Mound
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan, and just N of the enclosures (RO022-009003-; RO022-009004-). Subcircular grass-covered mound (dims 6m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4m). Mound (RO022-009007-) is c. 20m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-009007 Mound
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan. Subcircular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 9.5m E-W; 8.6m N-S) with a flat top (dims 4.9m N-S; 4.3m E-W; H 0.3-0.6m). Enclosures (RO022-009003-; RO022-009004-) are c. 30m to the S, and mound (RO022-009006-) is c. 20m to the S. 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 Ballymurray.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymurray

Area

1,182,272 m² (118.23 ha, 292.15 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonyquin electoral division: 255 people in 95 households; 88% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconboy, Cartron, Flaskagh More, Grallagh, Kilvoy

Placenames

Ballymurray 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.