Ballyglishen

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglishen, from 165 m² to 239,515 m² (23.95 ha, 59.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Ballyglishen 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.

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460114

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  change of use from an existing nursing home to a private residential dwelling, permission is also sought to retain a) the existing site boundaries and b) garage provide to the rear of the property which was subsequently converted to a granny flat

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21648

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct an extension to the side of an existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20468

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel shed, septic tank with percolation area and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19519

• 19 Dec 2018N/a

  retain change use from an existing nursing home to a residential dwelling. Permission is also sought to retain the existing site boundaries and the construction of a garage comprising of a granny flat provided to the rear of the property

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18776

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyglishen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyglishen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyglishen.

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

Name

Ballyglishen · Baile Uí Ghlaisín

Area

639,444 m² (63.94 ha, 158.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Blandsfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Blandsfort electoral division: 338 people in 113 households; 96% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaddock, Ballypickas Lower or Bernardsgrove, Drumashellig, Ralish, Tullore

Placenames

Ballyglishen 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.