Ballynamuddagh
Ballynamuddagh is a townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Baile na mBodach.
- Area
- 179.6 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 49,148 m² (4.91 ha, 12.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynamuddagh, from 1,711 m² to 211,984 m² (21.2 ha, 52.38 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynamuddagh 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
13 Nov 2025Conditional
CHANGE THE HOUSE DESIGN ON PLANNING FILE REG 21/679 TO A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE; AND PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560746
12 Nov 2025N/a
CHANGE THE HOUSE DESIGN ON PLANNING FILE REG 21/679 TO A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE; AND ARE APPLYING FOR NEW PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560741
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynamuddagh, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynamuddagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynamuddagh · Baile na mBodach
- Area
- 1,795,536 m² (179.55 ha, 443.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Clonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 693 people lived in 227 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlea, Clonadacasey, Clonaddadoran, Colt, Coolnacartan, Oldtown, Rosskelton
- Placenames
- Ballynamuddagh 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.