Ballyrider

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrider, from 87 m² to 316,160 m² (31.62 ha, 78.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ballyrider 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.

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  alter site boundaries from that granted permission Ref. no. 18/466 and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560334

• 28 May 2025N/a

  alter the site boundaries from that granted permission Ref. no. 18/466 and all associated and necessary site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560323

• 10 May 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460254

• 9 May 2024N/a

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

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460252

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  retain granny flat as constructed to our existing dwelling and also to amend previously granted permission 19/666 for new swimming pool and ancillary services, requiring the conversion of existing garage for ancillary services for proposed modified swimming pool extension to existing garage

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 22214

• 29 Nov 2019Conditional

  retain existing swimming pool facility and change of use of this existing pool area back to domestic garage and planning permission for a proposed extension to domestic garage to contain new swimming pool and ancillary facilities and to include all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19666

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct a dormer dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, Percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18653

• 1 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage & fuel storage shed, packaged wastewater treatment system, sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18466

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyrider.

Recorded monuments

• LA014-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Part of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 65m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.4m, int. H c. 1.4m; ext. H c. 1.6m) from S-N. No other visible surface remains. 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

• LA014-102 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of irregular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 62m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 09 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyrider, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyrider · Baile Riadair

Area

1,979,598 m² (197.96 ha, 489.17 acres)

Civil parish

Moyanna, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Moyanna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

410 people lived in 121 households in the Moyanna electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Correel, Garrans, Inch, Kilrory, Moyanna, Raheenaniska

Placenames

Ballyrider 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.