Ballycosney

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycosney, from 721 m² to 271,617 m² (27.16 ha, 67.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Ballycosney 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  an existing single storey extension to the rear & side of an existing dwelling house & associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560641

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1921

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 the townland of Ballycosney.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycosney.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycosney.

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_2024 (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 Ballycosney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballycosney · Baile Chosnamhaigh

Area

1,307,551 m² (130.76 ha, 323.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Tinnycross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinnycross electoral division: 467 people in 153 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklin Big, Corndarragh, Derrynagall or Ballydaly, Rosnagowloge or Tirinchinan, Wood of O

Placenames

Ballycosney 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.