Ballycolgan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycolgan, from 73 m² to 425,159 m² (42.52 ha, 105.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballycolgan 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.

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A TRADITIONAL STYLE SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING, WITH FOUR BEDROOMS AND SOLAR PANELS TO THE REAR (2) PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORK FOR PERCOLATION AREA (3) REDEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING FARM ENTRANCE INTO A RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE WITH TRADITIONAL STYLE GATES, REPLACEMENT PIERS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23174

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DUNGSTEAD (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SHED (C) CONSTRUCTION OF MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY & ANCILLARY ROOMS, DRAFING & HANDLING FACILITIES, WAITING YARD, MEAL BIN, WATER STORAGE TANK & UNDERGROUND SLATTED PARLOUR WASHING TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19140

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF011-024 Enclosure
  Description

  Possible remains of enclosure appear on aerial photo (GSI N 482/1). Not visible at ground level. 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 Ballycolgan.

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 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_2241 (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.

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

Name

Ballycolgan · Baile Mhic Colgan

Area

2,011,659 m² (201.17 ha, 497.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Monasteroris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasteroris electoral division: 892 people in 302 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbash, Ballyfore Big, Edenderry, Monasteroris, Rathmore, Rogerstown

Placenames

Ballycolgan 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.