# Ballycolgan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Mhic Colgan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,011,659 m² (201.17 ha, 497.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 51,579 m² (5.16 ha, 12.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballynakill.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Monasteroris, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 892 people lived in 302 households in the Monasteroris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/41716 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180109 - Centre: latitude 53.331589, longitude -7.103257 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycolgan, from 73 m² to 425,159 m² (42.52 ha, 105.06 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 272253: 425,159 m² (42.52 ha, 105.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272253.md - Parcel 5348749: 416,028 m² (41.6 ha, 102.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5348749.md - Parcel 270985: 219,359 m² (21.94 ha, 54.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270985.md - Parcel 313540: 129,876 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313540.md - Parcel 277238: 109,477 m² (10.95 ha, 27.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277238.md - Parcel 284077: 101,908 m² (10.19 ha, 25.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284077.md - Parcel 293437: 98,699 m² (9.87 ha, 24.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293437.md - Parcel 302234: 92,352 m² (9.24 ha, 22.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302234.md - Parcel 305897: 83,802 m² (8.38 ha, 20.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305897.md - Parcel 307412: 58,942 m² (5.89 ha, 14.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307412.md - Parcel 281435: 54,776 m² (5.48 ha, 13.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281435.md - Parcel 311824: 51,757 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311824.md - Parcel 310347: 51,400 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310347.md - Parcel 309721: 23,445 m² (2.34 ha, 5.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309721.md - Parcel 306563: 11,458 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306563.md - Parcel 294669: 10,430 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294669.md - Parcel 304948: 8,856 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304948.md - Parcel 6037775: 4,076 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6037775.md - Parcel 269505: 2,626 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269505.md - Parcel 271695: 2,459 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271695.md - Parcel 273892: 2,419 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273892.md - Parcel 273527: 1,804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273527.md - Parcel 273284: 787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273284.md - Parcel 300930: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300930.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 20 Apr 2023, Offaly County Council 23174: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23174/0 - 1 Apr 2019, Offaly County Council 19140: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19140/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF011-024: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF011-024----. 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 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 Ballycolgan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballycolgan, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2241, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2241.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/ballycolgan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycolgan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycolgan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycolgan 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) - Ardbash: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardbash.md - Ballyfore Big: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.md - Edenderry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/edenderry.md - Monasteroris: https://everytownland.com/offaly/monasteroris.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathmore-181047.md - Rogerstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rogerstown.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/ballycolgan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballycolgan