Ballaghassaan

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghassaan, from 75 m² to 930,821 m² (93.08 ha, 230.01 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 Ballaghassaan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballaghassaan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballaghassaan.

Recorded monuments

• OF019-005 Children's burial ground
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Ballaghassaan House, farm house, 1650–1700 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 Ballaghassaan, about 1 in 20 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 Ballaghassaan.

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 Ballaghassaan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballaghassaan · Bealach Asáin

Area

3,885,893 m² (388.59 ha, 960.23 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballaghassaan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Brackagh, Clonavoe, Colgagh, Derrycricket, Esker More, Scrub or Pigeonpark, Walshisland

Placenames

Ballaghassaan 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.