Ballybruncullin
Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Buaile Chromuilleann
Parcel 305629
- Area
- 49,390 m² (4.94 ha, 12.2 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballybruncullin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_1799 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 117.8 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 14,115 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybruncullin, from 41 m² to 344,553 m² (34.46 ha, 85.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybruncullin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660471
18 Feb 2025Conditional
3 no. Dormer windows to the front elevation of the existing property together with all associated site works.
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560039
18 Dec 2024Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER MAIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT AT BOHERNAGRISNA, BALLYCUMBER, CO OFFALY.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460519
7 Aug 2020Conditional
AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE AS NOTED IN THE OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2014-2020, REFERENCE: 12-65), UPGRADE OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20359
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC 000572
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog 000572
Recorded monuments
- OF008-031 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a slight rise in an area of undulating countryside with nearby ringfort (OF008-032----) to the S. Circular area (34m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m) with enclosing fosse (int. D 2.5m ; Wth 2m) and external bank (ext. H 0.7m; Wth 2m) of stone construction. Causeway entrance (Wth 2m) at W. The external bank has evidence of stone facing on its outer face, best preserved at S. To the N of the site are the grass covered wall footings of farmhouses which are marked on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch. map. It is not certain whether the stone facing of the outer bank is an original feature or whether it was built by the occupiers of the nearby farmhouses. 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
- OF008-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in an area of undulating countryside with nearby ringfort (OF008-031----) to the N. Raised circular area (37m E-W; 36m N-S) enclosed by gently sloping bank ( Wth 1m, int. H 0.3m); wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 2m; int. D 2m; ext. D 0.2m) with slight evidence of an external bank at S. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE. with evidence of wall footings on either side of the causeway. Uncertain if wall is original or a later feature. The interior of the site slopes from N to S. with a modern field wall and road intercepting the fosse at W. 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
- OF008-033 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. Potential site identified as acropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 531/2). 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
- Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan but having screen wall to one side of entrance internally. Pitched oaten straw roof with exposed scolloping to ridge and twine to eaves. Low rendered chimneystacks. Rendered stone walls. Small openings with replacement uPVC windows and having two small windows, one at each end of rear wall. Replacement timber door. Sited at end of short avenue and facing outbuilding and having slightly-recessed outbuilding attached to road end of house. Outbuildings have pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_1799 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybruncullin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybruncullin · Buaile Chromuilleann
- Area
- 1,178,061 m² (117.81 ha, 291.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Bawn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bawn electoral division: 353 people in 116 households; 93% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Ballycumber, Bohernagrisna, Castletown, Kilpatrick
- Placenames
- Ballybruncullin 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.