# Ballycleary, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile Uí Chléirigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,301,108 m² (130.11 ha, 321.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,024 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Donore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27922 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100076 - Centre: latitude 52.962736, longitude -7.479678 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycleary, from 102 m² to 130,172 m² (13.02 ha, 32.17 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 232555: 130,172 m² (13.02 ha, 32.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232555.md - Parcel 231951: 108,701 m² (10.87 ha, 26.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231951.md - Parcel 225932: 105,563 m² (10.56 ha, 26.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225932.md - Parcel 5235792: 87,222 m² (8.72 ha, 21.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5235792.md - Parcel 231218: 72,744 m² (7.27 ha, 17.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231218.md - Parcel 234888: 66,695 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234888.md - Parcel 253984: 55,069 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253984.md - Parcel 5245498: 53,828 m² (5.38 ha, 13.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245498.md - Parcel 268292: 50,543 m² (5.05 ha, 12.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268292.md - Parcel 248525: 45,771 m² (4.58 ha, 11.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248525.md - Parcel 225083: 45,522 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225083.md - Parcel 267270: 45,227 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267270.md - Parcel 5245510: 35,406 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245510.md - Parcel 259751: 34,318 m² (3.43 ha, 8.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259751.md - Parcel 256824: 32,484 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256824.md - Parcel 265619: 32,138 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265619.md - Parcel 266247: 28,969 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266247.md - Parcel 248785: 27,159 m² (2.72 ha, 6.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248785.md - Parcel 243010: 25,094 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243010.md - Parcel 253217: 20,350 m² (2.03 ha, 5.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253217.md - Parcel 254400: 17,869 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254400.md - Parcel 259153: 15,087 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259153.md - Parcel 4900434: 10,756 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900434.md - Parcel 3061649: 10,640 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3061649.md - Parcel 2532728: 9,559 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2532728.md - Parcel 240416: 9,139 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240416.md - Parcel 4389959: 8,037 m² (0.8 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4389959.md - Parcel 226260: 6,870 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226260.md - Parcel 232557: 6,409 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232557.md - Parcel 230801: 6,073 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230801.md - Parcel 266711: 5,143 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266711.md - Parcel 251067: 4,904 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251067.md - Parcel 258951: 4,167 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258951.md - Parcel 243560: 3,815 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243560.md - Parcel 252181: 3,611 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252181.md - Parcel 241191: 3,532 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241191.md - Parcel 4597722: 3,429 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4597722.md - Parcel 236179: 3,368 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236179.md - Parcel 4389360: 3,281 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4389360.md - Parcel 243781: 3,281 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243781.md - Parcel 4441132: 3,187 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4441132.md - Parcel 237128: 3,111 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237128.md - Parcel 237546: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237546.md - Parcel 5025687: 2,597 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5025687.md - Parcel 5235791: 2,514 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5235791.md - Parcel 250514: 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250514.md - Parcel 5041708: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5041708.md - Parcel 245999: 2,323 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245999.md - Parcel 248615: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248615.md - Parcel 252560: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/252560.md - Parcel 242586: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/242586.md - Parcel 233600: 1,842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/233600.md - Parcel 263807: 1,452 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263807.md - Parcel 5064700: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5064700.md - Parcel 241030: 1,182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/241030.md - Parcel 250926: 1,163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/250926.md - Parcel 237033: 1,117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/237033.md - Parcel 244895: 740 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/244895.md - Parcel 244863: 549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/244863.md - Parcel 230336: 380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/230336.md - Parcel 228227: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/228227.md - Parcel 2532733: 102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2532733.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycleary in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 30 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2660420: N/a. Retention, 1 home. retain extension to Existing House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660420/0 - 29 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2648: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. Outline Planning permission for dwelling house new site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2648/0 - 24 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2660404: N/a. Retention. Retain Extension to Existing House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660404/0 - 23 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2660398: N/a. Retention. Retain Extension to Existing House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660398/0 - 14 Mar 2024, Laois County Council 2440: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct dwelling house, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2440/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 - Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA, site code 004233, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004233 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycleary. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycleary. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballycleary, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2005, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2005.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycleary.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycleary.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycleary.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycleary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonard or Cappaloughlin: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonard-or-cappaloughlin.md - Coole: https://everytownland.com/laois/coole-100404.md - Cuddagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/cuddagh.md - Gash: https://everytownland.com/laois/gash.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/laois/newtown-100878.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycleary - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/ballycleary