Ballybrack

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrack, from 1,844 m² to 1,364,724 m² (136.47 ha, 337.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybrack 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.

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  New Extension To Side Of Existing House For Use As A Granny Flat And All Associated Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560227

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 Ballybrack.

Recorded monuments

• OF045-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 47m N-S; ext. H 2m max. at S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.3m) visible at W only and external fosse (Wth 2m) also visible at W only. Possible destroyed entrance gap at SE (Wth 10m). 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-007001 Church
  Description

  Located on the E facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Only the wall footings survive of a small church (17.1m E-W; N-S 9.5m N-S; wall T 1.15m) built with large limestone boulders with rubble infill. Possible threshold stone of doorway at W end of S wall. Immediately to the SW are the remains of an irregular shaped enclosure defined by a scarp with loosely piled rubble on top. Portions of five quern stones were discovered amongst the rubble. No headstones or grave-markers were visible inside the enclosure (OF045-007002-) which defines the extent of the graveyard (OF045-007003-). Probable early medieval church with enclosure that defines the extent of the medieval graveyard. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-007002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the E facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Only the wall footings survive of a small church (OF045-007001-) built with large limestone boulders with rubble infill. Immediately to the SW are the remains of an irregular shaped enclosure defined by a scarp with loosely piled rubble on top. Portions of five quern stones were discovered amongst the rubble. No headstones or grave-markers were visible inside the enclosure (OF045-007002-) which defines the extent of the graveyard (OF045-007003-). Probable early medieval church with an enclosure that defines the extent of the medieval graveyard. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-007003 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on the E facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Only the wall footings survive of a small church (OF045-007001-) built with large limestone boulders with rubble infill. Immediately to the SW are the remains of an irregular shaped enclosure defined by a scarp with loosely piled rubble on top. Portions of five quern stones were discovered amongst the rubble. No headstones or grave-markers were visible inside the enclosure (OF045-007002-) which defines the extent of the graveyard. Probable early medieval church with an enclosure that defines the extent of the medieval graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-008 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a low hillock in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 47.2m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1m) best preserved at W elsewhere it is reduced to a scarp and external fosse (Wth 3m) visible at W only. No entrance feature was identified however the bank was destroyed at S where entrance may have been located. No other likely location for entrance feature at this site. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-009001 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside with ringfort (OF045-008----) nearby. Poorly preserved 17th-century two storey gable ended T-plan house (14.65m N-S; 8.8m E-W; wall T 1.2m) built with uncoursed rubble limestone. Projecting tower along centre of E wall at rear of house contains the stairs from which the upper floor was accessed. All floors were wooden with the first floor carried on corbels and the second carried in the thickness of the wall. There was a destroyed fireplace at both gable ends. Immediately W of the house there is a semicircular sunken area defined by a scarp which may indicate possible bawn area. An earlier widely splayed round headed window was inserted backwards into the centre of the N gable. This feature may have belonged to an earlier building on the site. Although marked as a castle this is the site of a late 17th-century house similar to other T-plan houses such as Culleenwaine (OF046-008----) and Graffan (OF044-011001-) which are characterised by their distinctive plan and similar architectural features. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-009002 House - 17th century
  Description

  Unlocated house indicated within the townland on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of the region. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on E facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Only W half of site survives consisting of two earth and stone banks with wide intervening fosse (Wth 5m) and causeway entrance at S. Inner bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.5m max.) is best preserved at W and external bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.7m) is mainly constructed with stone. Chord measurement from NW to SE across interior measures 82m. The site originally was a large bivallate ringfort with approximate internal diameter of 85m N-S. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybrack.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybrack.

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.

No address of the register names Ballybrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballybrack · An Baile Breac

Area

2,146,962 m² (214.7 ha, 530.53 acres)

Civil parish

Roscrea, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclery, Ballystanly, Brockernagh, Clonagannagh, Clonbrennan, Clyduff, Glascloon

Placenames

Ballybrack 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.