Ballyduff
Ballyduff is a townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Baile Dubh.
- Area
- 203.4 ha
- 503 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 11,721 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff, from 406 m² to 268,024 m² (26.8 ha, 66.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2022Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22327
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
Recorded monuments
- OF043-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on S facing slope of high ground in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 27m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.5m) reduced to a scarp in most places with possible causewayed entrance (Wth 5.5m) at E. Slight traces of an outer fosse visible. 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
- OF043-064001 Fulacht fia
Description
Not visible at ground level. Unable to locate any traces of any fulacht fia in area marked on 6-inch ordnance survey map. Site identified by Arcaheological Survey of the barony of Ballybritt. 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
- OF043-064002 Field system
Description
Situated on high ground in upland region. Series of cultivation ridges of unknown date can be seen on the side of the mountain. 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
- OF043-065 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated on top of an E-W ridge in mountainous area. Circular area (diam. 19m N-S; 13m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.5m) with no evidence of an entrance feature or outer fosse. Field boundary intersects site from N to S, enclosing bank forms part of field boundary from S to N. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyduff, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyduff.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduff · An Baile Dubh
- Area
- 2,033,583 m² (203.36 ha, 502.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Electoral division
- Gorteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 291 people lived in 101 households in the Gorteen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghmore Upper (Co. Laois), Barnaboy (Co. Laois), Gorraun, Keeloge, Kilcreman, Killavilla, Knockloughlin, Laughil, Oldcamp (Co. Laois)
- Placenames
- Ballyduff 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.