Ballyprior

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyprior, from 47,463 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres) to 118,413 m² (11.84 ha, 29.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyprior 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyprior in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Ballyprior Grassland SAC 002256

Recorded monuments

• LA019-011001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 47.5m) defined by an earthen and stone bank (Wth c. 2.9m, int. H 0.5m, ext. H c. 1.2m). Original entrance at NNE. Traces of a circular hut site (diam c. 11m) in the NE quadrant of the cashel. Entrance at N. 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

• LA019-011003 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  A subcircular area (dims. 34m SSE-NNW, 28m ESE-WNW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth c. 2.4m, int. H c. 0.5m, ext. H c. 1.2m) except at W and N where it is delimited by a scarp. A sheer cliff face forms the enclosing element from S-W. An external shallow fosse (Wth c. 2m) is evident. Entrance via causeway (Wth c. 6.5m) at NE. 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

• LA019-011006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 4.1m, int. H c. 0.5m, ext. H c. 1m) from NE-SSW, and elsewhere by a scarp. External fosse most pronounced at S and from S-SW. No evidence of original entrance. 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

• LA019-011009 Hut site
  Description

  Traces of a circular hut site (diam c. 11m) in the NE quadrant of the cashel (LA019-011001-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA019-085 Field system
  Description

  A series of low field walls running roughly E-W across the slope of the rising ground is visible on Google earth aerial imagery. The antiquity of these field walls is uncertain. There is evidence of post-1700 activity in this area including the remains of a limekiln and quarry along with farm buildings to the N and E. Alternatively the field walls may be contemporaneous with a cashel (LA019-011001-) lnd hut site (LA019-011002-) located 200m to the W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Murray Date of upload: 22 April 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyprior.

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 Ballyprior, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyprior · Baile an Phrióra

Area

1,017,092 m² (101.71 ha, 251.33 acres)

Civil parish

Timogue, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Timogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 128 households in the Timogue electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballintlea, Ballycoolan, Crannagh

Placenames

Ballyprior 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.