# Ballyfin, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish An Baile Fionn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 979,655 m² (97.97 ha, 242.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,355 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Ballyfin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28306 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100094 - Centre: latitude 53.086133, longitude -7.441009 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfin, from 71 m² to 382,666 m² (38.27 ha, 94.56 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 237847: 382,666 m² (38.27 ha, 94.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237847.md - Parcel 233944: 203,393 m² (20.34 ha, 50.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233944.md - Parcel 4950933: 93,452 m² (9.35 ha, 23.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950933.md - Parcel 251323: 74,366 m² (7.44 ha, 18.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251323.md - Parcel 258103: 61,693 m² (6.17 ha, 15.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258103.md - Parcel 263879: 54,158 m² (5.42 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263879.md - Parcel 256595: 28,172 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256595.md - Parcel 241906: 19,497 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241906.md - Parcel 243709: 11,501 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243709.md - Parcel 5239823: 11,209 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5239823.md - Parcel 268566: 4,232 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268566.md - Parcel 4671148: 3,120 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671148.md - Parcel 261875: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261875.md - Parcel 265830: 2,473 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265830.md - Parcel 4626823: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626823.md - Parcel 246013: 1,843 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/246013.md - Parcel 4626827: 861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626827.md - Parcel 227692: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/227692.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 May 2024, Laois County Council 2460276: Conditional. Permission. erect temporary structure (20ft container converted to sauna) and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460276/0 - 10 Jan 2017, Laois County Council 1714: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1714/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfin. ## 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 Ballyfin, 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 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 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/ballyfin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyfin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyfin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyfin 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) - Ballyhuppahane: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyhuppahane.md - Clonehurk: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonehurk.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/laois/deerpark-100484.md - Rossmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossmore-101006.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/ballyfin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/ballyfin