# Ballyboughlin, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride (Tullamore Ra), barony of Kilcoursey, Co. Offaly; in Irish Béal Átha Bóchluana. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 424,754 m² (42.48 ha, 104.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,118 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbride (Tullamore Ra), https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilbride-tullamore-ra.md - Barony: Kilcoursey - Electoral division: Clara, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clara electoral division: 4,229 people in 1,487 households; 72% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/41979 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180092 - Centre: latitude 53.354913, longitude -7.639859 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboughlin, from 683 m² to 154,165 m² (15.42 ha, 38.1 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5300072: 154,165 m² (15.42 ha, 38.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5300072.md - Parcel 277357: 83,130 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277357.md - Parcel 308254: 81,879 m² (8.19 ha, 20.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308254.md - Parcel 6089173: 77,872 m² (7.79 ha, 19.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6089173.md - Parcel 274130: 9,478 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274130.md - Parcel 293568: 5,118 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293568.md - Parcel 288920: 3,512 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288920.md - Parcel 287414: 3,341 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287414.md - Parcel 291455: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291455.md - Parcel 310451: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310451.md - Parcel 300571: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300571.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyboughlin 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2024, Offaly County Council 2460338: Conditional. Permission. the development and operation of a c. 14MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at this 29.75ha site located off Curragh Road (L20171) in the townland of Clara, near Clara, Co. Offaly. The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 35 years. The development will consist of: • Approximately 38,000 panels on ground mounted metal frames, with a maximum height above ground of 3.17 metres, including string inverters mounted to the rear of the panels; • 1 no. 38kV substation including 1 no. MV switch room, IPP control room, 1 no. ESB switch room, and associated electrical infrastructure; • 3 no. transformer units; • Underground cabling and ducting; • 1 no. temporary construction compound and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project; • Perimeter Fencing; • CCTV; • Site access provided from existing site access off Curragh Road (L20171), internal tracks, site landscaping and all associated site enabling and site development works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460338/0 - 12 Aug 2024, Offaly County Council 2460308: N/a. Permission. The application seeks a 10-year permission with an operational lifetime of 35 years. The development will consist of: • Approximately 38,000 panels on ground mounted metal frames, with a maximum height above ground of 3.17 metres, including string inverters mounted to the rear of the panels; • 1 no. 38kV substation including 1 no. MV switch room, IPP control room, 1 no. ESB switch room, and associated electrical infrastructure; • 3 no. transformer units; • Underground cabling and ducting; • 1 no. temporary construction compound and ancillary facilities for the duration of the construction phase of the project; • Perimeter Fencing; • CCTV; • Site access provided from existing site access of Curagh Road (L20171), internal tracks, site landscaping and all associated site enabling and site development works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460308/0 - 19 Jul 2018, Offaly County Council 18314: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR FARM. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM WILL COMPRISE THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF SOLAR PV ARRAYS MOUNTED ON METAL FRAMES ON AN APPROX 29.7HA SITE, INCLUSIVE OF A SINGLE ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, UP TO 8 INVERTER UNITS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION AREA AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES, BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCE WITH CCTV UNITS, AN ACCESS TRACK, ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS (INCLUSIVE OF GROSS FLOOR SPACE OF PROPOSED WORKS UP TO 213.6SQM). THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT AND STAGE 1 SCREENING FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18314/0 - 24 Oct 2017, Offaly County Council 17418: Conditional. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW POLYTUNNEL (CIRCA. 1370 M2) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS 12-61, NIAH 14908002. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17418/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Ballyboughlin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboughlin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ashmount House, dovecote/pigeon house/aviary, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14908002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14908002. Freestanding single-bay dovecote, built c.1800. Pitched slate roof with sprocketed eaves. Roughcast render to random coursed stone walls. Window opening with stone lintel. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Stone perches and pigeon holes. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility 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_1848, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1848.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballyboughlin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyboughlin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyboughlin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyboughlin 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) - Bolart South: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bolart-south.md - Clara: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clara.md - Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180732.md - Kilmanaghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmanaghan.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/raheen-181025.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/ballyboughlin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyboughlin