Ballythomas

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballythomas, from 54 m² to 168,645 m² (16.86 ha, 41.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballythomas 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.

• 27 Jul 2026Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, stables, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660514

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  change house type from that previously granted planning permission 22/684 and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460193

• 11 Apr 2024N/a

  Change of house type from that previously granted planning permission 22/684 and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460188

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  demolish an existing lean-to to accommodate construction of a new rear extension with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360293

• 25 Jul 2023N/a

  demolish an existing lean-to to accommodate construction of a new rear extension with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360282

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  retain 1. the construction of a pedesatrian footpath adjacent to the existing internal access road at The Heritage Resort & for the removal of existing boundary treatments / hedgerow so that the footpath could be accommodated along the internal access road. 2. all associated site works at The Heritage Resort, Killenard, Co. Laois, R32 DA50

  Retention · Laois County Council, 23156

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  Construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360156

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22684

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

  for retention permission for stables, horse shelter, 2 general purpose sheds and polytunnel, as well as revision to boundary to my property

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22553

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 Ballythomas.

Recorded monuments

• LA014-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map and indicated by a curving field fence on the 1909 edition Reference to a rath here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). Situated in undulating countryside with views of Killone Hill to the W. Nearby ringfort (LA014-011) visible to the S. Poorly preserved enclosure almost totally levelled and now defined by a scarp(max. H 1.6m) from SSW-E. No evidence of fosse or 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

• LA014-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Reference to a rath here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). A circular area (diam. c. 50m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 1.9m, int. H c. 1.6m; ext. H c. 1.9m) from SW-NE. No evidence of fosse or original entrance. Nearby ringfort (LA014-010) visible to 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

• LA014-012 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Home of Lord Dunboyne, Bishop of Cork. Described in the nineteenth century as a seventeenth century house that has been remodelled in recent times, in which process, one of its storeys with its castellations was removed (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). Occupied dwelling consisting of a a two storey house (Wth c. 6.1m, L c. 15.5m) rendered with pepple-dash and with a dressed cut stone doorway with key stone. Four rectangular windows on ground floor and three on top floor on front of building. A curtain wall runs westward from the house ending in a pillar. None of the original outer buildings remain. Some cobbling visible outside N gable of house. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballythomas, 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 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 Ballythomas.

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

Name

Ballythomas · Baile Thomáis

Area

892,584 m² (89.26 ha, 220.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteale, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

305 people lived in 92 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeen, Killeen, Killone, Kilmurry, Kilrory, Kylespiddoge

Placenames

Ballythomas 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.