# Ballycollin, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Cholláin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,039,600 m² (103.96 ha, 256.89 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 52,914 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md
- Barony: Eglish
- Electoral division: Eglish, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 153 people lived in 57 households in the Eglish electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41303
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180110
- Centre: latitude 53.146774, longitude -7.860025 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycollin, from 2,285 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 481,756 m² (48.18 ha, 119.04 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 284178: 481,756 m² (48.18 ha, 119.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284178.md
- Parcel 280117: 172,280 m² (17.23 ha, 42.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280117.md
- Parcel 292798: 109,445 m² (10.94 ha, 27.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292798.md
- Parcel 280116: 103,719 m² (10.37 ha, 25.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280116.md
- Parcel 277634: 56,845 m² (5.68 ha, 14.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277634.md
- Parcel 279790: 52,914 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279790.md
- Parcel 292791: 43,131 m² (4.31 ha, 10.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292791.md
- Parcel 309024: 4,116 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309024.md
- Parcel 2486958: 4,049 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486958.md
- Parcel 5100258: 3,578 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5100258.md
- Parcel 282115: 2,285 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282115.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycollin 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycollin in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Ballycollin.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF030-083: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF030-083----. A single piece of roundwood (diam. 0.06m), located 0.57m below the field surface in a drain face and set at a 35° angle. It is within moderately humified Sphagnum peat which contained ericaceous remains and Eriophorum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1997. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh 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)

- Saint James's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1920, Regional interest, registry number 14930003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14930003. Detached cruciform Roman Catholic church, built c.1900, with three-bay nave and vestry to south-west. Pitched slate roof with stone gables and tooled stone finial to gable. Roughcast render to walls with smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Pointed-arched window openings with rendered hoodmouldings, stained glass windows to nave and painted sills. Mosaic roundel to north-east gable wall. Oculus window to south-east gable with rendered hoodmoulding and stained glass, timber sash pointed windows with painted sills to vestry. Pointed-arched door opening with rendered hoodmoulding and timber battened double doors surmounted by fanlight. Interior with marble altar and king-post timber trusses to roof. Graveyard surrounding church with varied gravemarkers; the earliest legible example dates to the 1840s. Memorial to north-east of church, comprising timber cross set in concrete with plaque to front which reads ‘The famine 1845 – 1849, Eglish-Drumcullen 1841 pop. 6,644, 1851 pop. 4, 841, R.I.P.’ Flanked by tall yew trees. Roughcast rendered wall with crenellated coping bounds front site. Ashlar gate piers surmounted by pyramidal capping stones with cast-iron railings and gates gives access to church site.

## 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 Ballycollin, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycollin.
- 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/ballycollin-180110.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycollin-180110.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycollin-180110.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballycollin 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)

- Coologe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coologe.md
- Eglish: https://everytownland.com/offaly/eglish.md
- Galros East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-east.md
- Mounthenry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mounthenry.md
- Whigsborough: https://everytownland.com/offaly/whigsborough.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.

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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/ballycollin-180110
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballycollin-180110