Ballyogan
Ballyogan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Uí Ógáin.
- Area
- 206.3 ha
- 510 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 17,829 m² (1.78 ha, 4.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyogan, from 635 m² to 172,812 m² (17.28 ha, 42.7 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyogan 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
11 Apr 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. There will be one building and all effluent will be collected and stored in the proposed slatted tank. The slatted shed will be 7.067m in height and will be constructed on agricultural land our client & his family have been farming for generations. There is no protected structures close to the site.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460109
28 Jun 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a storey and half extension to an existing dwellinghosue and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18244
15 May 2017Conditional
development consisting of a change of house type to that which was previously granted permission under PL 17/15, together with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 17179
7 Feb 2017Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a new vehicular entrance and access to existing dwelling house. The proposed works will involve the removal of the existing roadside boundary and the construction of a new entrance, roadside boundary and access driveway and will include all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 1732
24 Jan 2017Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1715
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 Ballyogan.
Recorded monuments
- SL017-014001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a prominent ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 31m) enclosed by a much degraded bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m, at S) which is revetted internally with large stones at W. Original entrance may have been at E. A souterrain (SL017-014002-) may be traced both within the enclosed area and immediately N of the enclosing bank of the rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL017-014002 Souterrain
Description
At a rath (SL017-014001-). Six metres from the outer foot of the enclosing bank of the rath at NNE is a blocked-up access hole to the souterrain. Within the NE quadrant of the rath, a small circular stone-lined hollow (diam. 1.5m), located at the edge of a disturbed area, may be evidence of a collapsed section of the souterrain. Extending SE from this is a line of stones which mark the edge of a slight rise. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL017-035 Enclosure
Description
Situated upon a low hill. Not marked on 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is depicted as circular enclosure om 1913 edition. A trigonomical station is shown within the interior. This potential monument has been quarried away. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL017-036 Crannog
Description
Centrally located in Lough Nascardigan. Shown as an oblong island (c. 20m N-S, c. 10m E-W) on the 1837 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps. The lake has been drained and the area is now occupied by very wet, marshy ground. At the location of the island there is a slightly raised subrectangular area (c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) covered by bog and densely overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyogan.
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 Ballyogan, 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 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 Ballyogan.
- 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 Ballyogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyogan · Béal Átha Uí Ógáin
- Area
- 2,062,525 m² (206.25 ha, 509.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Rathmacurkey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 598 people lived in 218 households in the Rathmacurkey electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballyogan 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.