Ballydrohid

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydrohid, from 28 m² to 409,807 m² (40.98 ha, 101.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industrial and Warehousing (General industry)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 18 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
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  Construction of a two-storey construction company headquarters building. The proposed development includes: a) Administration, meeting rooms, workstations, storage and welfare facilities. b) An entrance canopy to the front. c) A detached single storey storage shed to the rear. d) A 45 space car park with 3 Sheffield bike parking stands (6 bikes) to the front of the site. e) Secure yard to the rear for the storage of materials and plant. f) New vehicular entrance gate, signage and fencing to the north and south boundaries of the site. g) All associated landscaping, drainage and site development works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560461

• 18 Jul 2023Conditional

  two storey house on site 1 and dormer/storey and a half house on site 2 and all associated site works, entrance gates and services

  Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 2360025

• 13 Jul 2023N/a

  two storey house on site 1 and dormer / storey and a half house on site 2 and all associated site works, entrance gates and services.

  Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 2360018

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE EXTENSION WILL INCLUDE (A) THE RAISING THE ROOF FOR A DORMER TYPE SECOND FLOOR AND (B) THE INSTALLATION OF THREE SKYLIGHTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION. THE ALTERATIONS WILL INCLUDE (A) THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WINDOW ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE NORTH WEST FACING GABLE WALL AND (B) THE CHANGING OF A WINDOW TO A DOOR AND THE MOVING OF A DOOR ON THE REAR ELEVATION AND (C) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ENSUITE BATHROOM IN AN EXISTING BEDROOM AND (D) THE INSTALLATION OF A STAIRS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23304

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING OUT BUILDINGS, EXTEND AND RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 23206

• 20 Jan 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A THREE BEDROOM DWELLING, A GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2312

• 7 Dec 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A THREE BEDROOM DWELLING, GARAGE AND BOUNDARY TREATMENTS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22625

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22242

• 26 Apr 2022N/a

  EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 22209

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF PREVIOUS EXTENSION AND OUT BUILDINGS, EXTEND & RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21529

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONVERSION & ALTERATIONS OF EXISTING 2 NO. FARM OUTBUILDINGS TO 3NO. NEW SELF-CONTAINED DWELLING UNITS WITH PERMISSION FOR ONE NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM EXISTING FARM ENTRANCE AT RAHAN ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 20612

• 27 Nov 2020N/a

  CONVERSION & ALTERATIONS OF EXISTING 2 NO. FARM OUTBUILDINGS TO 3 NO. NEW SELF-CONTAINED DWELLING UNITS WITH PERMISSION FOR ONE NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM EXISTING FARM ENTRANCE AT RAHAN ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20595

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON A 0.93HA SITE (2.3 ACRE) WHICH IS BOUNDED BY THE R443 SRAH ROAD TO THE NORTHEAST, THE L2007 RAHAN ROAD TO THE NORTHWEST SIDE, THE EXISTING RAILWAY LINE TO THE SOUTH WEST AND TO THE SOUTH EAST BY EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. ACCESS TO THE SITE IS FROM THE SRAH ROAD THAT BOUNDS THE DEVELOPMENT TO THE NORTH EAST. THE DEVELOPMENT COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING - 26NO TWO STOREY HOUSES IN THE FOLLOWING MIX. 2 NO. THREE-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED TYPE A UNITS, 6 NO. THREE-BEDROOM END OF TERRACE TYPE A UNITS, 12 NO. THREE-BEDROOM MID-TERRACED TYPE A1 UNITS; 2NO TWO-BEDROOM END OF TERRACE TYPE B UNITS; 4NO TWO-BEDROOM MID-TERRACE TYPE B1 UNITS TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT / CAR PARKING / LANDSCAPING/ BOUNDARY DETAIL WORKS

  Permission, 26 homes · Offaly County Council, 18330

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  A NEW EMERGENCY ROAD ENTRANCE FROM THE R433 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ACCESS CONSISTING OF A NEW ENTRANCE ROAD AND FENCING

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18116

• 31 Aug 2017Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE AND A FUEL STORE TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17325

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Charleville Wood SAC 000571
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF016-023 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on top of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside. Sub-triangular shaped stone (H 2.7m; 1.2m x 0.7m) aligned NW-SE with packing stones at its base. 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

• OF016-024001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Depicted on the 1838 edition of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, the interior of which has been planted with trees. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 18 January 2012

• OF017-006001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on flat well drained soils with good views in all directions. Four storey tower house (ext. dims 7.5m N-S; 9.8m E-W; wall T 1.5m) with attic above. Ground floor (int. dims. 4.3m N-S; 4.8m E-W) accessed by a main door of the two centred type located on the W wall with series of small barrel vaulted chambers directly over lobby area. Only half of the door survives with punch dressed jambs and yett hole visible. Door is protected by a small square shaped machicolation at wall-walk level. Immediately inside the doorway on the left hand side are the remains of a doorway which gives access to the spiral stairs in the NW angle from which all upper floors were accessed. Externally the tower house displays many defensive features such as a prominent base batter with masonry added to the corners, numerous musket holes, two diagonally opposite bartizans on the SW and NE angle at third floor level. Both bartizans are large square shaped projections carried on external corbels and accessed internally by a flat headed rectangular door. Twin ogee headed windows on the building appear to be later additions. Large rectangular shaped gable ended 17th-century house (OF017-006004-) attached to the N end of the W wall. Fireplace partially destroyed on W gable with chimney stack protruding from external face of W gable. Internally all the floors of the tower house were wooden with none surviving. Fireplace on N wall at first floor level suggests that this was the main living area. Garderobe at second floor level in SE corner with outlet on the E wall. Also at this level in the SW angle small guardroom which gives access to a small double twin light ogee headed angle loop. The third floor is the main defensive room with access to the bartizans and a mural passage which is located in the E wall. Above this floor are the remains of a high pitched E gable with square flat headed window in the gable with remains of wall-walk visible. Built by John Briscoe in 1588 (ITA Survey 1942). (Garner 1985, 39; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 66) Testing was undertaken under licence no. 04E0540 adjacent to the archaeological constraint zone surrounding Srah Castle and earthworks, in advance of infrastructural developments. The excavation did not uncover any archaeological feature or find (Excavations Bulletin 2004). Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork. 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 April 2009

• OF017-006002 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately to the S of a tower house (OF017-006001-) in the next field can be seen two semicircular platforms (diam 35m E-W) enclosed by a wide deep fosse at S only. Testing was undertaken under licence no. 04E0540 adjacent to the archaeological constraint zone surrounding Srah Castle and earthworks, in advance of infrastructural developments. The excavation did not uncover any archaeological feature or find (Excavations Bulletin 2004). Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork. 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 April 2009

• OF017-006003 Field system
  Description

  No surface remains visible of field systems which show up on aerial photographs (OSO 1981, 3011067) in the vicinity of Srah tower house (OF017-006001-). Testing was undertaken under licence no. 04E0540 adjacent to the archaeological constraint zone surrounding Srah Castle and earthworks, in advance of infrastructural developments. The excavation did not uncover any archaeological feature or find (Excavations Bulletin 2004). Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork. 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 April 2009

• OF017-006004 House - 17th century
  Description

  Located on flat well drained soils with good views in all directions. Four storey tower house (OF017-006001-). Large rectangular shaped gable ended two-storey 17th-century house attached to the N end of the W wall of the castle. Large impressive ground floor fireplace in centre of W gable with externally protruding gable-ended chimney stack. House is defended with gun loops. Remains of bawn wall (OF017-006005-) attached to SW corner of house (Garner 1985, 39; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 66) 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

• OF017-006005 Bawn
  Description

  Located on flat well drained soils with good views in all directions. Four storey tower house (OF017-006001-). Large rectangular shaped gable ended two-storey 17th-century house (OF017-006004-) attached to the N end of the W wall of the castle. Large impressive ground floor fireplace in centre of W gable with externally protruding gable-ended chimney stack. House is defended with gun loops. Remains of bawn wall attached to SW corner of house (OF017-006004-) (Garner 1985, 39; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 66). Testing was undertaken under licence no. 04E0540 adjacent to the archaeological constraint zone surrounding Srah Castle and earthworks, in advance of infrastructural developments. The excavation did not uncover any archaeological feature or find (Excavations Bulletin 2004). Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revision: 23 April 2009

Architectural heritage

• Srah Bridge, bridge, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry bridge, built c.1802, carrying an accommodation track across the Grand Canal. Random rubble limestone construction. Semi-elliptical arch profile. Towpath on each side passing under bridge. Vossoirs of finely dressed limestone blocks. String couse extending across face to terminating piers. Parapets coped with dressed limestone blocks. Humped deck and ramped approaches.

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with attic, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan and now partly roofless. Two-bay single-storey addition to rear with rendered walls and lean-to slated roof and adjoining outbuilding with pitched slate roof also to rear. Pitched oaten straw roof with dressed limestone barges and kneelers and having rendered and brick chimneystacks. Small openings with timber sash windows. Timber panelled door. Rendered stone walls. Sited close to and parallel with Grand Canal towpath. Garden to front and extensive complex of farm buildings to side and rear. Long range of single- and two-storey outbuildings to east having pitched slate roofs and stone walls. Variety of single-storey elsewhere in complex.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1938 (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 Ballydrohid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballydrohid · Béal an Droichid

Area

1,601,310 m² (160.13 ha, 395.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Tullamore Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullamore Rural electoral division: 3,555 people in 1,185 households; 66% of households own their home; 69% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduff, Ballynagh, Killiskea, Srah

Placenames

Ballydrohid 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.