Ballyruin

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyruin, from 128 m² to 209,091 m² (20.91 ha, 51.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyruin 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.

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  Construct an agricultural shed for the storage of machinery and animal feedstuffs, new yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560767

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  demolish existing sub standard house and replace with new bungalow, and also new garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560428

• 13 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20417

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, Septic tank & percolation area and new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17352

• 4 Jul 2017N/a

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, Septic tank & percolation area and new site enrtance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17350

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 Ballyruin.

Recorded monuments

• LA018-025 Enclosure
  Description

  A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 19.7m N-S) visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 164-5). Faint traces of bank present at NE, SE and S. 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

• LA018-064 Platform - peatland
  Description

  Situated in the industrial bog, Cashel, Co. Laois that is currently in Bord na Mona milled peat production. Monument consists of four closely placed parallel roundwoods recorded protruding from the drain face in a SE-NW direction. These were only exposed for a maximum of 0.14m into the drain face and were 0.90m from the field surface. They ranged in diameter from 0.07-0.14m. These elements were not located in any of the surrounding drains and may represent a small platform or a short length of a togher. A single element was sampled and later identified as alder and dated to 3780-3640 BC. Reference number LS-CSL004 in ADS Ltd. Catalogue. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyruin.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyruin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballyruin · Baile Átha Róine na Móna

Area

1,773,044 m² (177.3 ha, 438.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Ballyroan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyroan electoral division: 1,193 people in 379 households; 80% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroan, Cashel, Clonaddadoran, Colt, Crubeen

Placenames

Ballyruin 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.