# Ballaghassaan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish Bealach Asáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,885,893 m² (388.59 ha, 960.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,187 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Geashill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/geashill.md - Barony: Philipstown Upper - Electoral division: Ballaghassaan, the unit of the census - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41585 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180046 - Centre: latitude 53.258867, longitude -7.190547 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghassaan, from 75 m² to 930,821 m² (93.08 ha, 230.01 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4405422: 930,821 m² (93.08 ha, 230.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4405422.md - Parcel 306597: 794,022 m² (79.4 ha, 196.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306597.md - Parcel 4647709: 645,423 m² (64.54 ha, 159.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647709.md - Parcel 307872: 573,920 m² (57.39 ha, 141.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307872.md - Parcel 304648: 328,010 m² (32.8 ha, 81.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304648.md - Parcel 310791: 167,721 m² (16.77 ha, 41.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310791.md - Parcel 359598: 103,531 m² (10.35 ha, 25.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359598.md - Parcel 281663: 45,979 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281663.md - Parcel 295871: 42,052 m² (4.21 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295871.md - Parcel 4656746: 7,661 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656746.md - Parcel 302615: 4,714 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302615.md - Parcel 5051720: 3,994 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5051720.md - Parcel 4656685: 3,304 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656685.md - Parcel 2445129: 3,057 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445129.md - Parcel 359389: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359389.md - Parcel 301972: 1,905 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301972.md - Parcel 4656695: 1,674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656695.md - Parcel 291051: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291051.md - Parcel 284216: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284216.md - Parcel 4832792: 75 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4832792.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghassaan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballaghassaan in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballaghassaan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF019-005: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF019-005----. Subrectangular shaped area (35m N-S) defined by slight remains of an earthen bank and rough stone wall, situated on a slight rise. No obvious grave markers, site overgrown at time of visit. Modern water tower in NE angle. The following folklore was recorded from Walsh Island school in 1938; 'There is a field there called "The Relic" meaning graveyard. It was formerly a burial place for unbaptised children. Adjoining this graveyard is a long stone wall called the Range wall. It is built of peculiar field stones which are perfectly round. At one end of this wall there was an old schoolhouse long ago. A schoolmaster by the name of Kennefick taught there' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 065) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 April 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballaghassaan House, farm house, 1650–1700, Regional interest, registry number 14919008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14919008. Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1675, with projecting two-storey entrance bay, return to rear and outbuildings to south and east. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door flanked by timber pilasters with console brackets. Stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings with corrugated-iron and slate roofs to rear site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballaghassaan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballaghassaan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballaghassaan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballaghassaan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballaghassaan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballaghassaan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Brackagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brackagh-180266.md - Clonavoe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonavoe.md - Colgagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/colgagh.md - Derrycricket: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrycricket.md - Esker More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/esker-more.md - Scrub or Pigeonpark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/scrub-or-pigeonpark.md - Walshisland: https://everytownland.com/offaly/walshisland.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballaghassaan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballaghassaan