Ballyfin

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfin, from 71 m² to 382,666 m² (38.27 ha, 94.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballyfin 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.

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  erect temporary structure (20ft container converted to sauna) and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460276

• 10 Jan 2017Conditional

  change dwelling house design from that previously granted under planning application ref: 16/326. A screening report for appropriate assessment in relation to a Natura 2000 SPA site has been prepared in respect to this application

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1714

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyfin, about 1 in 10 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 Ballyfin.

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

Name

Ballyfin · An Baile Fionn

Area

979,655 m² (97.97 ha, 242.08 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Ballyfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

711 people lived in 225 households in the Ballyfin electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhuppahane, Clonehurk, Deerpark, Rossmore

Placenames

Ballyfin 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.