Ballydownan

165 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydownan, from 55 m² to 177,874 m² (17.79 ha, 43.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 62 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Apr 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, demolition of an existing shed, partial demolition of a garage, refurbishment and upgrade of the existing derelict dwelling house comprising of removal and replacement of existing roof, demolition of existing chimneys, installation of new rooflight, internal demolition works, replacement of windows, formation of new window opes, external wall insulation, alterations to the existing site entrance and vehicular access onto a regional road, and construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works to complete the development. The development is located within the Architectural Conservation Area of Geashill.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660211

• 5 Apr 2026N/a

  the demolition of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, demolition of an existing shed, partial demolition of a garage and construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works to complete the development. The development is located within the Architectural Conservation Area of Geashill

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660180

• 13 Mar 2026Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660123

• 10 Mar 2026N/a

  a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660114

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  ALTERATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE TO INCLUDE HOME OFFICE/GYM, WASHROOM, STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2614

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single-story extension to the rear of the school building, consisting of a Special Educational Needs classroom with ancillary accommodations, internal alterations and renovations to parts of the existing school building, additional parking area on the Southern Boundary and all associated site works at Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No. 35-001)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560460

• 25 Sept 2025N/a

  the construction of a single-story extension to the rear of the school building, consisting of a Special Educational Needs classroom with ancillary accommodations, additional parking area on the Southern Boundary and all associated site works at Scoil an Croisa Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No. 35-01).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560443

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  for a change of house type to that which was previously granted planning under PD19/210, and extension of duration application EX240011 on site no. 9, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560042

• 4 Feb 2025N/a

  A CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING UNDER 19210 ON SITE NO. 9, AT BALLYDOWNAN, GEASHILL VILLAGE, CO. OFFALY.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560029

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  DEMOLISH, EXTEND & RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND NEW CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC SEWER. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 22383

• 1 Oct 2021N/a

  DEMOLISHING, EXTEND & RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND NEW CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC SEWER. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21605

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND FARM YARD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21501

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  A TWO STOREY / DORMER HOUSE, GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21285

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  ROAD / JUNCTION ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE TURBINE DELIVERIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT IN CO. KILDARE. A CONCURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED TO KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169M AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE; ERECTION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST OF UP TO 100M IN HEIGHT; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY WORKS AND EQUIPMENT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2138

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional

  NEW DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, NEW BORED WELL, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20548

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED SHED WITH CONCRETE AREAS AND RETENTION PERMISSION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20526

• 9 Oct 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED SHED WITH CONCRETE AREAS, RETENTION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20487

• 21 Sept 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED SHED WITH CONCRETE YARD & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20445

• 7 Sept 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PART TWO STOREY PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/ PERCOLATION AREA AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20414

• 17 Aug 2020Refused

  TWO STOREY/DORMER HOUSE, GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20372

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  A NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON A 1.48HA (3.7 ACRE) SITE. THE PROPOSED SITE IS BOUNDED BY BALLYDOWNAN TO THE NORTH-WEST, ST. OLIVERS ESTATE TO THE NORTH EAST AND FARMLAND TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. ACCESS TO THE SITE IS FROM BALLYDOWNAN. 23 SINGLE STOREY, PARTIAL SINGLE STOREY AND STOREY AND A HALF HOUSES AND TWO STOREY HOUSES. THE DWELLING MIX IS: 2 TYPE A 4-BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY DETACHED HOUSES, 2 TYPE A1 3-BEDROOM PARTIAL SINGLE STOREY AND STOREY AND A HALF DETACHED HOUSES, 4 TYPE C 2-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED AND MID TERRACED TWO STOREY HOUSES, 9 TYPE B AND B1 3-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY HOUSES AND 6 TYPE D 4-BEDROOM HOUSES SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY HOUSES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED PROPOSED SITE DEVELOPMENT/CAR PARKING/LANDSCAPING/ BOUNDARY DETAIL WORKS

  Permission, 23 homes · Offaly County Council, 19210

• 11 Apr 2019N/a

  23 SINGLE STOREY, STOREY AND A HALF AND TWO STOREY HOUSES. THE DWELLIN MIX IS: 2 TYPE A 4-BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY DETACHED HOUSES, 2 TYPE A1 3-BEDROOM STOREY AND A HALF HOUSES, 4 TYPE C 2-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED AND MID TERRACE HOUSES, 9 TYPE B AND B1 3-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES AND 6 TYPE D 4-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED UNITS TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED EXISTING AND PROPOSED SITE DEVELOPMENT/ CAR PARKING/ LANDSCAPING/ BOUNDARY DETAIL WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19164

• 21 Jan 2019Conditional

  DWELLINGHOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE DWELLINGHOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1919

• 16 Jan 2018Conditional

  WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE: DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND SUNROOM; CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR, NEW WALL AND GATE WITHIN GARDEN; NEW SHED TO REAR; ALTERATIONS TO INTERIOR OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING NEW DOORWAY TO MODERN WALL; NEW STUD PARTITION TO FORM NEW CORRIDOR, NEW OPENING TO REAR WALL TO ACCOMMODATE EXTENSION, RELOCATE 2 NO. DOORWAYS, REFURBISH EXISTING BATHROOM; ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES, LANDSCAPING AND DRAINAGE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1814

• 9 Jan 2018N/a

  WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE: DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND SUNROOM; CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR, NEW WALL AND GATE WITHIN GARDEN; NEW SHED TO REAR; ALTERATIONS TO INTERIOR OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING NEW DOORWAY TO MODERN WALL, NEW STUD PARTITION TO FORM NEW CORRIDOR , NEW OPENING TO REAR WALL TO ACCOMODATE EXTENSION, RELOCATE 2 NO. DOORWAYS, REFURBISH EXISTING BATHROOM; ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES, LANDSCAPING AND DRAINAGE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 187

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 Ballydownan.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 507/6; 176/5) shows cropmark 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

Architectural heritage

• Ballydownan Cottage, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-pile single-storey thatched house, built c.1875, with lobby-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with exposed scolloping to ridges and wire to eaves. Rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls. Canted bay with thatched canopy to road gable, square-headed timber casement windows elsewhere. Windbreak with gabled oaten straw roof and having timber battened door. Second pile may be an addition and has similar roof and window detailing. Conservatory extension to rear.

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Hipped oaten straw roof with twine to eaves and having low rendered chimneystack. Limewashed lime-plastered clay walls, having heavy stone buttresses to rear wall and brick south gable wall. Timber pivoted windows and timber battened door. Slightly-recessed southern bay is extension. Small outbuilding with lean-to corrugated iron roof to north end of house. Sited at end of long avenue with outbuilding opposite house with rendered walls and pitched corrugated-iron roof.

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 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 Ballydownan.

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.

• Ballydownan, Geashill16 sales

Name

Ballydownan · Baile Uí Dhúnáin

Area

4,124,534 m² (412.45 ha, 1,019.19 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ard, Ballychristal, Dalgan, Geashill, Glebe East, Raheen

Placenames

Ballydownan 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.