Ballaghmore Upper

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghmore Upper, from 92 m² to 240,281 m² (24.03 ha, 59.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballaghmore 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.

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  1. retain existing steel shed for commercial user and for storage of agricultural machinery and 2. retain existing concrete front boundary wall

  Retention · Laois County Council, 23228

• 20 Jul 2023N/a

  retain existing steel shed and boundary wall

  Retention · Laois County Council, 23213

• 14 Oct 2022Conditional

  to retain boundary wall to side and rear and associated site clearance works and for permission for alterations to previously granted planning permission ref:20209. Alterations include revised site boundary's, revised site layout, increase in shed size and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22642

• 28 Jul 2022N/a

  to alter previously granted planning permission ref: 20209, alterations include revised site boundary's, revised site layout, increase in shed size and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22471

• 6 Jul 2022N/a

  to alter previously granted planning permission ref: 20209, alterations include revised site boundary's, revised site layout, increase in shed size and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22412

• 29 Jun 2022N/a

  alter previously granted planning permission ref 20/209. Alterations include revised site boundaries, revised shed layout and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22394

• 15 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey domestic extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20464

• 5 May 2020Conditional

  construct a steel shed for the purpose of fabricating steel buildings with external portable toilet facility, use of existing entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20209

• 6 Jul 2017Conditional

  retain the existing 16.4m telecommunications support structure carrying radio antennae for mobile telephony, palisade perimeter fencing, equipment container and access track as previously granted under planning ref. no. 1225

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17356

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA015-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 ed OS 6-inch maps. A circular area (diam. c. 16m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 3m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 1.5m) at S and W, and elsewhere by a scarp. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghmore 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

At the centre of the townland of Ballaghmore Upper, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaghmore 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 Ballaghmore Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballaghmore Upper · An Bealach Mór Uachtarach

Area

1,999,496 m² (199.95 ha, 494.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kyle, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

224 people lived in 93 households in the Kyle electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghmore Lower, Ballinla, Ballyduff (Co. Offaly), Cooleeshill (Co. Offaly), Kilcreman (Co. Offaly), Oldcamp

Placenames

Ballaghmore 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.