Ballyfin Upper

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfin Upper, from 391 m² to 250,491 m² (25.05 ha, 61.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfin 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.

• 21 Apr 2026N/a

  change house design and boundary alteration to previously granted permission 2560674

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660218

• 21 Apr 2026Conditional

  change house design and boundary alteration to previously granted permission 2560674

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660220

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560674

• 16 Oct 2025N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage , waste water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well , new site entrance.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560665

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage , waste water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560656

• 17 Sept 2021N/a

  retention of a slatted unit, associated cattle shed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21650

• 4 Aug 2020N/a

  retain a slatted unit, associated cattle shed and all associated site works; construct three stables and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20397

• 13 Jul 2020N/a

  retain a slatted unit , associated cattle shed and all associated site works and construct three stables and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20352

• 14 May 2020Conditional

  Retention planning permission for extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20223

• 12 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1865

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  construct a dormer style extension to the rear of existing house, new roof to the existing house, new garage, new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 16599

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfin Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyfin Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballyfin Upper · An Baile Fionn Uachtarach

Area

6,946,614 m² (694.66 ha, 1,716.55 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Ballyfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfin Demesne, Ballyhuppahane, Briscula, Cavansheath, Deerpark, Knocks, Rossmore, Sconce Upper

Placenames

Ballyfin 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.