Ballynalug
Townland in the civil parish of Rearymore, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile na Log
- Area
- 535.4 ha
- 1,323 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 10,786 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalug, from 877 m² to 3,189,581 m² (318.96 ha, 788.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynalug 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Oct 2023Conditional
construct garage attached to existing dwelling house and install PV panels on existing and proposed roofs
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360443
17 Oct 2023N/a
construct garage attached to existing dwelling house and install PV panels on existing and proposed roofs
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360431
21 Apr 2023Conditional
retain (I) existing dwelling house, (II) existing treatment plant and percolation area, (III) existing site entrance gate and permission to complete above said works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23127
28 Mar 2023N/a
retain and complete existing dwelling house with existing treatment plant and percolation area and retain existing site entrance gate
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23102
7 Oct 2022N/a
retain existing dwelling house with existing treatment plant and percolation area, and retain existing site entrance gate. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report has been prepared in respect of the development and submitted with the application
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22617
2 Dec 2021Conditional
retain change of position, orientation & design of dwelling house and garage, and change of location of wwtu and polishing filter granted under planning ref. 19/343
Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21829
15 Nov 2019Conditional
construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area, new bored well and construct an agricultural shed
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19628
14 Nov 2019N/a
construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area, new bored well and construct an agricultural shed
Permission · Laois County Council, 19627
17 Jun 2019Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new bored well and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19343
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynalug.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynalug.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Ballynalug.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynalug with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynalug · Baile na Log
- Area
- 5,354,239 m² (535.42 ha, 1,323.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rearymore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Electoral division
- Tinnahinch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinnahinch electoral division: 175 people in 67 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacrory, Clarahill, Coolnamony Lower, Coolnamony Upper, Glendineoregan, Kyle, Tinnahinch
- Placenames
- Ballynalug 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.