Ballymeelish

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymeelish, from 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 136,149 m² (13.61 ha, 33.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballymeelish 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.

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  a) construct a single storey extension to the side/west elevation of an existing single storey dwelling house, b) part demolish existing sheds and to include all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22201

• 26 Jul 2021Conditional

  proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21531

• 22 Jul 2021N/a

  construct dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21526

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  part demolish existing house and a proposed renovation of existing house to include a 2-storey and sunroom extension to the side of the existing house to allow for a granny flat for dual family living, wastewater treatment system, and percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20705

• 18 Nov 2020Refused

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20599

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 Ballymeelish.

Recorded monuments

• LA021-026 Mound
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular low earthen mound (diam. c. 11m, H c. 1.8m). 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

• LA021-027 Mound
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular earthen mound (diam. c. 16m, H c. 1.4m). 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 Ballymeelish.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymeelish · Baile Mhílis

Area

929,499 m² (92.95 ha, 229.68 acres)

Civil parish

Skirk, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Borris-In-Ossory electoral division: 1,012 people in 381 households; 67% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrophy, Ballyglass, Castlequarter, Derrinsallagh, Killasmeestia, Rathmore

Placenames

Ballymeelish 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.