Ballymorris

174 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymorris, from 26 m² to 709,235 m² (70.92 ha, 175.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space/Amenity (Active open space)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community-Educational-Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Jul 2026Conditional

  retain extension to rear of dwelling and attic conversion; change of use of garage to office space for use ancillary to main community house; and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660466

• 22 Jun 2026N/a

  retain extension to rear of dwelling and attic conversion; change of use of garage to office space for use ancillary to main community house; and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660395

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  retain works constructed within the curtilage of existing dwelling house, previous Planning Ref. 96/695, including: a) Sun Room to rear of dwelling house, b) domestic garage, c) domestic shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560574

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  extend and alter an existing dwelling with all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460236

• 22 Jan 2024Refused

  construct a Two-Storey Type Dwelling & Domestic Garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460024

• 13 Dec 2023N/a

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank with polishing filter and entrance to site

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23286

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works (outline planning permission ref 19/548)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360038

• 6 Feb 2023N/a

  construct new dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.consequent to the grant of outline planning permission ref 19/548.

  Permission consequent · Laois County Council, 2360032

• 1 Feb 2023N/a

  construct new dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works consequent to the grant of outline planning permission ref 19/548

  Permission consequent · Laois County Council, 2360026

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  retain as constructed, single storey dwelling, storage shed, entrance, and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22455

• 18 Feb 2022N/a

  retain as constructed single storey dwelling with converted attic and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2274

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21771

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  open anew entrance into farm land and erect tubler steel gate and posts

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21378

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2146

• 14 May 2020Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19548

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  retain 1. change of use from dwelling to preschool including attic conversion, 2. extensions to preschool building and 3. detached classroom building to the south of existing building and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19702

• 11 Dec 2019N/a

  retain 1. change of use from dwelling to preschool including attic conversion, 2. extensions to preschool building and 3. detached classroom building to the south of existing building and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19694

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  extend and renovate dwelling to include internal independent living unit, upgrade of waste water treatment system by means of new waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new garage and upgraded entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19228

• 25 Mar 2019N/a

  construct a two storey extension to dwelling, new garage, upgraded entrance, upgrade of waste water treatment system by packaged treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19167

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  (A). retain minor alterations to elevations and internal layout of previously granted 02/504 (B). retain attic conversion to habitable rooms including velux windows and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1946

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  retain an unauthorised mobile home and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18714

• 6 Feb 2018Conditional

  retain an extension to the front and rear of the existing dwelling, a shed to the northeast side of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1852

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct dwelling house, garage, septic tank and entrance to site

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17656

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• LA005-010002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  18th century folly known as the Spire which was built on top of an earlier Windmill, the spire was built in 1779 by William Henry Damer, Viscount Carlow to give employment during a hard winter. The dating of the windmill is uncertain but may date from the first quarter of the 18th century. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Blackhall Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over former canal, c. 1830. Remains of canal to site, closed 1950, filled in post-1950.

• Lansdowne Park, country house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, c.1830, with tetrastyle Doric loggia. Now in ruins.

• The Spire, folly, 1735–1745 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-stage folly, built 1740, on a circular plan. Part repointed coursed rubble stone conical roof. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls retaining sections of rendered surface finish. Destroyed pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed opposing door openings with remains of buff brick block-and-start surrounds. Blind lancet loops (second stage). Set in wood on hill. NOTE: Erected by William Henry Dawson (1712-79) 'to give employment to the poor in the year of the great frost [1740]' (Coote 1801, 136). The folly was illustrated and labelled as "Spirehill" by Taylor and Skinner (1778, 159) and was later depicted in an idealised pastoral setting in a lithograph (1852) by William C. Forster (d. c.1911) of Dublin [NLI ET C328].

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 Ballymorris, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2188 (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 Ballymorris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballymorris · Baile Mhuiris

Area

3,676,458 m² (367.65 ha, 908.47 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Portarlington South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,859 people lived in 2,795 households in the Portarlington South electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annamoe (Co. Offaly), Coolagh, Cooltederry, Doolough, Kilbride, Kilmalogue (Co. Offaly), Rathleash, Shanderry (Co. Offaly), Tirhogar

Placenames

Ballymorris 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.