Ballykealy

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykealy, from 63 m² to 496,027 m² (49.6 ha, 122.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballykealy 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 Feb 2024Conditional

  construct overground slurry tower with roof and underground slurry tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460080

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  retain domestic garage and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21127

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 Ballykealy.

Recorded monuments

• LA035-044 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 45m NE-SW). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-045001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References date from 1653, when it was fortified by John McKeallagh Fitzpatrick (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 228). The S and W angles of a rubble built tower house (dims. 9.35m NW-SE, c. 7m NE-SW; wall T 1.25m), at least two storeys high, with a possible entrance at SE survive. Featureless. A piece of masonry 15m out from S angle may represent the remains of a bawn wall (LA035-045003-). Described by Carrigan as 'A considerable fragment of Ballykealy castle is still standing. The castle and townland of Ballykealy were forfeited by John mcKeallagh Fitzpatrick, in 1653' (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 228). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-045002 Well
  Description

  Reference to well site here (Feehan 1983, 435). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-045003 Bawn
  Description

  References date from 1653, when it was fortified by John McKeallagh Fitzpatrick (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 228). The S and W angles of a rubble built tower house (LA035-045001-), at least two storeys high, with a possible entrance at SE survive. Featureless. A piece of masonry 15m out from S angle may represent the remains of a bawn wall (LA035-045003-). Described by Carrigan as 'A considerable fragment of Ballykealy castle is still standing. The castle and townland of Ballykealy were forfeited by John mcKeallagh Fitzpatrick, in 1653' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 228). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-055 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 48m) defined by a scarp (H c. 1.2m). No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (max. diam. c. 56m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 3.5m) except at SW where a scarp forms the enclosing element. Evidence of an external fosse survives from N-E and S-SW. No evidence of original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballykealy, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Ballykealy.

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

Name

Ballykealy · Baile Uí Chaollaí

Area

3,308,534 m² (330.85 ha, 817.56 acres)

Civil parish

Aghmacart, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Aghmacart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

377 people lived in 119 households in the Aghmacart electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aharney, Cullahill Mountain, Graigueavoice, Tinnaslatty (Co. Kilkenny), Toberboe or Killenny More

Placenames

Ballykealy 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.