# Ballypickas Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyroan, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile Phiocáis Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,205,818 m² (120.58 ha, 297.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,633 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyroan, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ballyroan.md - Barony: Cullenagh - Electoral division: Blandsfort, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 338 people lived in 113 households in the Blandsfort electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27791 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100156 - Centre: latitude 52.904872, longitude -7.297129 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballypickas Upper, from 189 m² to 225,822 m² (22.58 ha, 55.8 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 240831: 225,822 m² (22.58 ha, 55.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240831.md - Parcel 5097545: 215,108 m² (21.51 ha, 53.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097545.md - Parcel 247623: 127,099 m² (12.71 ha, 31.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247623.md - Parcel 5097499: 102,161 m² (10.22 ha, 25.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097499.md - Parcel 263713: 77,763 m² (7.78 ha, 19.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263713.md - Parcel 245956: 47,468 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245956.md - Parcel 228625: 34,943 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228625.md - Parcel 5097490: 33,201 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097490.md - Parcel 5188213: 31,996 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5188213.md - Parcel 233214: 28,006 m² (2.8 ha, 6.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233214.md - Parcel 266200: 26,366 m² (2.64 ha, 6.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266200.md - Parcel 267455: 26,179 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267455.md - Parcel 233151: 23,788 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233151.md - Parcel 257773: 21,823 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257773.md - Parcel 267686: 19,492 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267686.md - Parcel 262699: 16,766 m² (1.68 ha, 4.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262699.md - Parcel 230611: 16,041 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230611.md - Parcel 265419: 14,999 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265419.md - Parcel 5097506: 13,893 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097506.md - Parcel 252377: 10,503 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252377.md - Parcel 229615: 8,431 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229615.md - Parcel 258718: 8,090 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258718.md - Parcel 232092: 7,598 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232092.md - Parcel 5397949: 6,688 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397949.md - Parcel 5652768: 6,633 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5652768.md - Parcel 263000: 4,885 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263000.md - Parcel 256048: 4,877 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256048.md - Parcel 5682871: 4,382 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5682871.md - Parcel 257521: 4,214 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257521.md - Parcel 232384: 3,799 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232384.md - Parcel 234066: 3,653 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234066.md - Parcel 235629: 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235629.md - Parcel 3094566: 3,459 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3094566.md - Parcel 258473: 3,195 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258473.md - Parcel 4947778: 3,136 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4947778.md - Parcel 5425655: 2,636 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5425655.md - Parcel 5097508: 2,474 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097508.md - Parcel 231722: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231722.md - Parcel 2481147: 2,297 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481147.md - Parcel 231287: 1,896 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/231287.md - Parcel 248997: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/248997.md - Parcel 3935819: 1,188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935819.md - Parcel 256118: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/256118.md - Parcel 4898540: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898540.md - Parcel 231621: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/231621.md - Parcel 242592: 432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/242592.md - Parcel 257991: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257991.md - Parcel 5097497: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097497.md - Parcel 5097518: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097518.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballypickas Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 19 Aug 2024, Laois County Council 24119: Conditional. Permission. construct an American barn to include tack room, wash area and feedstore with ancillary seepage tank, sand arena and midden and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/24119/0 - 9 Aug 2024, Laois County Council 24115: N/a. Permission. construct an American barn to include tack room, wash area and feed store with ancillary seepage tank, sand arena and midden and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/24115/0 - 12 Feb 2024, Laois County Council 2427: Conditional. Permission. construct a grain and straw storage and machinery shed, concrete apron and all associate site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2427/0 - 23 Sept 2021, Laois County Council 21663: Conditional. Retention. retain a grain storage and machinery shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21663/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Laois County Council 20682: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. amend previously granted planning permission 19/559 consisting of permission to reduction footprint of dwelling house, amendments to elevations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20682/0 - 9 Oct 2019, Laois County Council 19559: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19559/0 - 27 Mar 2019, Laois County Council 19172: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19172/0 - 25 Feb 2019, Laois County Council 19117: Conditional. Retention. retain garage, car port and entrance as constructed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19117/0 - 21 Apr 2017, Laois County Council 17197: Conditional. Permission. construct a new grain storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17197/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballypickas Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballypickas Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballypickas Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballypickas Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballypickas Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballypickas Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballypickas Lower or Bernardsgrove: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-lower-or-bernardsgrove.md - Cappanashannagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappanashannagh.md - Coole or Lisnagomman: https://everytownland.com/laois/coole-or-lisnagomman.md - Derryfore: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryfore.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigue-100641.md - Moat: https://everytownland.com/laois/moat.md - Ralish: https://everytownland.com/laois/ralish.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/ballypickas-upper