Ballaghanoher
Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Bealach an Fhothair
- Area
- 233.9 ha
- 578 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 15,611 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghanoher, from 54 m² to 207,861 m² (20.79 ha, 51.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghanoher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jan 2019Conditional
1. INCREASE IN SIZE OF PLANT ROOM/GARAGE TO REAR AT BASEMENT LEVEL, WITH DOUBLE GARAGE DOOR AND WINDOW AND DOOR WITH SIDE WINDOW, 2. INCREASE IN OVERALL FLOOR AREA OF HOUSE BY 95.8M2, 3. STEEL SHED TO REAR, 4. CHANGE OF WINDOW TO DOOR WITH SIDE WINDOW ON SIDE ELEVATION, 5. 2.4M HIGH EXTERNAL RENDERED BLOCK WALLS AT FRONT AND REAR OF DWELLING, 6. CONVERSION OF PART OF PLANT ROOM/GARAGE AT BASEMENT LEVEL TO HABITABLE USE, 7. CHANGE OF GRASS LAWN AREA IN FRONT GARDEN TO GRAVEL HARDSTANDING AND CHANGE OF GRASSED AREA AT REAR OF HOUSE TO GRAVEL HARDSTANDING, 8. WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA TO REAR
Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 194
4 Dec 2018N/a
1. CONSTRUCTION OF PLANT ROOM/GARAGE TO REAR AT BASEMENT LEVEL PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA OF 39.8 M2, DOUBLE GARAGE DOOR ON REAR (WEST) ELEVATION AND 1 NO. WINDOW & 1 NO. DOOR WITH SIDE WINDOW ON SIDE (SOUTH) ELEVATION. 2. INCREASE IN OVERALL FLOOR AREA OF HOUSE BY 55M2 - MADE UP OF GROUND FLOOR 33M2, FIRST FLOOR 16M2 AND BASEMENT 6M2. 3. OMISSION OF DETACHED GARAGE TO REAR OF MAIN HOUSE. 4. ERECTION OF STEEL SHED TO REAR OF HOUSE (15M2). 5. CHANGE OF 1 NO. WINDOW TO DOOR WITH SIDE WINDOW ON SIDE (NORTH) ELEVATION. 6. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTERNAL RENDERED BLOCK WALL AT FRONT (EAST) OF DWELLING 5.9M LONG & 2.4M HIGH. 7. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTERNAL RENDERED BLOCK WALL AT REAR (WEST) OF DWELLING 29M LONG & 2.4M HIGH. 8. CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING PLANT ROOM / GARAGE TO FRONT AT BASEMENT LEVEL TO HABITABLE USE. 9. CHANGE OF EXISTING GRASS LAWN AREA (C. 70M2) IN FRONT GARDEN TO GRAVEL HARDSTANDING. 10. CHANGE OF EXISTING GRASSED AREA AT REAR OF HOUSE (C. 390M2) TO GRAVEL HARDSTANDING. 11. NEW WWTS WITH PERCOLATION AREA TO REAR OF PROPERTY - ON FOOT OF GRANT OF PERMISSION REF. PL2/99/902
Retention · Offaly County Council, 18545
30 May 2018Refused
THE INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 12.5KM OF 38KV ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE FROM THE PERMITTED (WIND FARM) SUBSTATION (OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053) IN THE TOWNLAND OF STONESTOWN, COUNTY OFFALY TO THE EXISTING ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONDALLOW, COUNTY OFFALY. THE TRANSMISSION LINE WILL COMPRISE APPROXIMATELY 8.5KM OF UNDERGROUND LINE AND APPROXIMATELY 3.7KM OF OVERHEAD LINE. UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN PRIVATE LANDS AND WITHIN THE PUBLIC ROADS NUMBERED N62, R439 AND THE L70152; WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2M IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING, JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING AT 1 NO. RAILWAY CROSSING ALONG THE N62, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. OVERHEAD INFRASTRUCTURE WILL CONSIST OF 3 NO. POWERLINES SUSPENDED FROM WOODEN POLES WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 16 METRES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) WHICH INCLUDES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LIKELY IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, AS A WHOLE AND IN COMBINATION WITH THE RELEVANT OFF-SITE OR SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS WHICH WILL OCCUR AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED PURSUANT TO OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18230
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Woodville Woods 000927
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ross And Glenns Eskers 000920
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghanoher.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan and having thatched single-bay return to centre of rear wall. Pitched oaten straw roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered stone walls. Timber sash and replacement timber windows. Porch with flat concrete roof and replacement timber windows and glazed timber with sidelights. Lawn between house and road. Yard to front of house having rendered outbuildings with pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron roofs.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1617 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballaghanoher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghanoher · Bealach an Fhothair
- Area
- 2,339,064 m² (233.91 ha, 578 acres)
- Civil parish
- Reynagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Mounterin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mounterin electoral division: 263 people in 90 households; 95% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboy, Clondallow, Conspark, Kilnaglinny, Knocknahorna, Pollaghoole, Ross
- Placenames
- Ballaghanoher 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.