Ballinteskin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinteskin, from 548 m² to 508,415 m² (50.84 ha, 125.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballinteskin 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  To construct a new bungalow dwelling with proprietary treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560864

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  retain garage as built and permission to revise site boundary from that granted under planning reference 1396

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460194

• 9 Apr 2024N/a

  retention for garage as built and to revise site boundary from that granted under planning reference 1396

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460179

• 29 Nov 2023Conditional

  Construct new dwelling house,domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all as

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360507

• 28 Nov 2023N/a

  construct new dwelling house,domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360505

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  construct cubicles shed with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2224

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  retain the velux roof light to the front roof elevation of the existing house

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18433

• 17 Jul 2018N/a

  retain the velux roof light to the front roof elevation of the existing house

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18429

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work at Ballinteskin, Stradbally, Co.Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17299

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  alter and extend domestic dwelling house including demolition of existing extension and porch, provision of new septic tank system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17243

• 26 Apr 2017N/a

  alter and extend domestic dwelling house including demolition of existing extension and porch and all ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17209

• 10 Apr 2017N/a

  make alterations and to extend domestic dwelling house including all ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17169

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  to continue use of an existing lattice type meteorological mast 80m high and associated instruments to measure local climatic conditions for a period of 2 years

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17128

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyprior Grassland SAC 002256

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinteskin.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinteskin.

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 Ballinteskin, 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 Ballinteskin.

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 Ballinteskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballinteskin · Baile an tSeiscinn

Area

3,088,823 m² (308.88 ha, 763.26 acres)

Civil parish

Timogue, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Timogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 128 households in the Timogue electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamaddock, Ballaghmore, Ballintlea, Ballycoolan, Ballyprior, Oldmill, Timogue

Placenames

Ballinteskin 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.