# Ballycallaghan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Uí Cheallacháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,145,815 m² (114.58 ha, 283.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,412 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Durrow, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/durrow.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Durrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Durrow electoral division: 798 people in 254 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42035 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180105 - Centre: latitude 53.326665, longitude -7.471492 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycallaghan, from 101 m² to 208,442 m² (20.84 ha, 51.51 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 275269: 208,442 m² (20.84 ha, 51.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275269.md - Parcel 307397: 156,707 m² (15.67 ha, 38.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307397.md - Parcel 282351: 143,297 m² (14.33 ha, 35.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282351.md - Parcel 301504: 131,264 m² (13.13 ha, 32.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301504.md - Parcel 268838: 57,719 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268838.md - Parcel 273686: 57,350 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273686.md - Parcel 269891: 55,597 m² (5.56 ha, 13.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269891.md - Parcel 291371: 49,821 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291371.md - Parcel 301208: 25,892 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301208.md - Parcel 4691412: 25,420 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4691412.md - Parcel 296186: 25,397 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296186.md - Parcel 286065: 19,905 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286065.md - Parcel 293577: 17,946 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293577.md - Parcel 291697: 16,050 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291697.md - Parcel 272177: 15,740 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272177.md - Parcel 2484118: 13,871 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484118.md - Parcel 281685: 13,800 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281685.md - Parcel 308047: 12,162 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308047.md - Parcel 302525: 7,101 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302525.md - Parcel 291699: 6,918 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291699.md - Parcel 291933: 6,873 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291933.md - Parcel 4688965: 5,940 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688965.md - Parcel 293749: 5,790 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293749.md - Parcel 300117: 4,824 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300117.md - Parcel 4614630: 4,819 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4614630.md - Parcel 2448971: 4,465 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2448971.md - Parcel 298794: 4,359 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298794.md - Parcel 312705: 4,118 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312705.md - Parcel 4648718: 3,853 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648718.md - Parcel 5549634: 3,770 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5549634.md - Parcel 305399: 3,536 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305399.md - Parcel 5408394: 2,758 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5408394.md - Parcel 287006: 2,502 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287006.md - Parcel 275768: 2,376 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275768.md - Parcel 310612: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310612.md - Parcel 303116: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303116.md - Parcel 297073: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297073.md - Parcel 274936: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274936.md - Parcel 275098: 2,126 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275098.md - Parcel 2388386: 2,023 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388386.md - Parcel 6168687: 1,957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6168687.md - Parcel 2484109: 1,778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484109.md - Parcel 304935: 1,677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304935.md - Parcel 312634: 1,394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/312634.md - Parcel 301382: 1,373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301382.md - Parcel 303919: 1,205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303919.md - Parcel 299803: 952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299803.md - Parcel 295554: 803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295554.md - Parcel 296491: 582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296491.md - Parcel 274615: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/274615.md - Parcel 4648724: 288 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648724.md - Parcel 296933: 101 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296933.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycallaghan 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 13 Jul 2023, Offaly County Council 23332: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SHEEP SHED, ROOFED MANURE PIT & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. THESE PROPOSED WORKS IF GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION WILL REPLACE THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT (PLANNING REFERENCE NR: 21/179). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23332/0 - 29 Jul 2022, Offaly County Council 22381: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22381/0 - 1 Jul 2021, Offaly County Council 21407: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SPLIT LEVEL TWO STOREY DWELLING AND TWO STOREY GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21407/0 - 6 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21179: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SHEEP SHED, ROOFED MANURE PIT & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21179/0 - 16 Apr 2020, Offaly County Council 20139: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. ADDITION/AMENDMENTS/OMISSION MADE TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING REFERENCE PL2/17/425 CONSISTING OF: A) ADDITION OF 1ST FLOOR EN-SUITE/WARDROBE, B) AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE LAYOUT/POSITION, C) AMENDMENTS TO GARAGE LAYOUT/POSITION, D) AMENDMENTS TO EXTERNAL DOORS/WINDOWS, E) AMENDMENTS TO PERCOLATION PIPE LAYOUT, F) AMENDMENTS TO PLANNING BOUNDARY, G) OMISSION OF EXTERNAL FEATURE STONE CLADDING TO ELEVATION OF HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20139/0 - 27 Mar 2020, Offaly County Council 20115: N/a. Retention. ADDITION/AMENDMENTS/OMISSION MADE TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING REFERENCE PL2/17/425 CONSISTING OF : A) ADDITION OF 1ST FLOOR EN-SUITE/WARDROBE, B) AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE LAYOUT/POSITION, C) AMENDMENTS TO GARAGE LAYOUT/POSITION, D) AMENDMENTS TO EXTERNAL DOORS/WINDOWS, E) AMENDMENTS TO PERCOLATION PIPE LAYOUT, F) AMENDMENTS TO PLANNING BOUNDARY, G) OMISSION OF EXTERNAL FEATURE STONE CLADDING TO ELEVATION OF HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20115/0 - 27 Oct 2017, Offaly County Council 17425: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE ERECTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND THE ERECTION OF A SEPARATE GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17425/0 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 Ballycallaghan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF009-014: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF009-014----. On natural low hillock in undulating countryside. Barrow which is partially destroyed from N to E where its inner fosse and external bank have been totally destroyed. From the surviving evidence the site consists of a low mound of uneven surface (H 1.5m; diam. 11m E-W) enclosed by an inner fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.2m) with external bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.5m). 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 - OF009-015: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF009-015----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 551/2) shows possible outline of circular enclosure. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycallaghan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycallaghan. - 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/ballycallaghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycallaghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycallaghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycallaghan 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) - Balleek: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balleek.md - Ballybroder (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballybroder-230109.md - Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynamona-180188.md - Derrygolan (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/derrygolan.md - Frevanagh (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/frevanagh.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/ballycallaghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballycallaghan