Ballykillane

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykillane, from 176 m² to 368,744 m² (36.87 ha, 91.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballykillane 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.

• 25 Apr 2025N/a

  Retention of an existing in situ concrete boundary wall not exceeding 2.4 meters in height, metal support columns on top of wall to be retained and permission for new Agri- cladding sheeting on metal frame to be retained and retention of all other associated site development works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2532

• 28 Aug 2024N/a

  (a) retain a support frame on existing in situ concrete boundary wall, (b)retain new agri-cladding sheeting on metal frame, (c) retain existing concrete wall not exceeding 2.0 metres in height and all other associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 24123

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  use an existing agricultural entrance as a HGV entrance including all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23210

• 7 Jul 2023N/a

  use an existing agricultural entrance as a HGV entrance including all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23201

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  construct a detached two storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, detached domestic garage, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360177

• 16 May 2023N/a

  construct a detached two storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, detached domestic garage, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360171

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  install a 6m extension to an existing 30m lattice telecommunications support structure (making a total height of 36m) to provide additional space for antenna and communications dishes together with associated ground-mounted equipment within a 2.4 metre palisade fenced compound

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19235

• 13 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct 2 storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system, percolation area, recessed vehicle entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18420

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18370

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 Ballykillane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykillane.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballykillane, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2180 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballykillane · Baile Uí Choileáin

Area

1,936,510 m² (193.65 ha, 478.52 acres)

Civil parish

Coolbanagher, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Emo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,338 people lived in 393 households in the Emo electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrossal, Carn or Curraghane, Coolnavarnoge and Coolaghy, Emo Park, Killimy

Placenames

Ballykillane 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.