# Ballingowan Glebe, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gléib Bhaile an Ghabhann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 865,304 m² (86.53 ha, 213.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,386 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41193 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180070 - Centre: latitude 53.246609, longitude -7.889823 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingowan Glebe, from 398 m² to 119,491 m² (11.95 ha, 29.53 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2388836: 119,491 m² (11.95 ha, 29.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388836.md - Parcel 303456: 103,888 m² (10.39 ha, 25.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303456.md - Parcel 299828: 96,626 m² (9.66 ha, 23.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299828.md - Parcel 2388028: 61,031 m² (6.1 ha, 15.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388028.md - Parcel 276399: 51,053 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276399.md - Parcel 307997: 50,221 m² (5.02 ha, 12.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307997.md - Parcel 274360: 48,171 m² (4.82 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274360.md - Parcel 278622: 39,074 m² (3.91 ha, 9.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278622.md - Parcel 5629907: 28,424 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629907.md - Parcel 304891: 24,233 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304891.md - Parcel 5629908: 22,343 m² (2.23 ha, 5.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629908.md - Parcel 4222314: 13,378 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222314.md - Parcel 4721358: 8,608 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721358.md - Parcel 290776: 8,417 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290776.md - Parcel 2844305: 6,195 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2844305.md - Parcel 5879156: 5,871 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5879156.md - Parcel 295005: 4,541 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295005.md - Parcel 284453: 4,231 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284453.md - Parcel 299335: 4,222 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299335.md - Parcel 269518: 4,162 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269518.md - Parcel 273137: 2,732 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273137.md - Parcel 268659: 2,613 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268659.md - Parcel 287232: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287232.md - Parcel 276661: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276661.md - Parcel 275716: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275716.md - Parcel 295320: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295320.md - Parcel 293650: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293650.md - Parcel 294385: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294385.md - Parcel 269416: 1,948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269416.md - Parcel 269140: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269140.md - Parcel 311840: 1,085 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311840.md - Parcel 276332: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276332.md - Parcel 4721363: 621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721363.md - Parcel 2844306: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2844306.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballingowan Glebe 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) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Dec 2018, Offaly County Council 18559: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALSO PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18559/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballingowan Glebe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Store/warehouse, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14824011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14824011. Detached three-bay three-storey with attic former canal goods shed, built c.1850, now used as a house. Pitched slate roof with cut stone gable coping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed rubble walls with stone quoins. Yellow brick surround to windows with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Detached three-bay single-storey goods shed to south-west with replacement corrugated-iron barrel-vaulted roof and random coursed stone walls with stone quoins. - 33rd Lock, bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14824012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14824012. Single-arch masonry canal bridge, built c.1800, carrying the road to Belmont over the Grand Canal at the 33rd lock. Dressed limestone blocks regularly laid. Arch of segmental profile. String course from parapet to piers. Curved deck with ramped approaches. - Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1880, Regional interest, registry number 14824014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14824014. Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built in 1884, on the Clara to Banagher line of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Single-storey structure to rear. Station now in domestic use. Situated on roadside. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with roughcast rendered walls, corbelled cornice with red brick course. Timber sash windows with stone sills, replacement timber casement windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door surmounted by overlight. Cut stone railway platform to rear with moulded nosing to kerb. - Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, signal box, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 14824015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14824015. Detached single-bay single-storey former railway signal box, built at Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station on the Clara to Banagher line by the Great Southern and Western Railway and opened in 1884. No longer in use. Pyramidal roof with lead ridges. Brick base with timber walls. Timber casement windows to timber sills. Adjacent to railway station and line. - Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 14824016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14824016. Detached three-bay single-storey goods shed, built at Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station on the Clara to Banagher line by the Great Southern and Western Railway and opened in 1884. Abutted by corrugated-iron extension. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone walls. Square-headed window openings with brick surround. Iron bars to windows. Square-headed door opening with brick surround and timber lintel, double timber doors. ## 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 Ballingowan Glebe, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballingowan Glebe. - 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/ballingowan-glebe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballingowan-glebe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballingowan-glebe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballingowan Glebe 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) - Ballyloughan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyloughan.md - Ballysheil: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballysheil.md - Bellmount or Lisderg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellmount-or-lisderg.md - Drishoge or Strawberryhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drishoge-or-strawberryhill.md - Killagally Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killagally-glebe.md - Smithstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/smithstown.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/ballingowan-glebe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballingowan-glebe