Ballyegan

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyegan, from 12 m² to 249,948 m² (24.99 ha, 61.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Ballyegan 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.

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  renovations to an existing dwelling, a new conservatory, removal of lean-to roof over boiler house, construction of a new single storey extension, and new roof windows. The house is a Protected Structure

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660408

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  A SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY ACCOMMODATION, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 25106

• 20 Oct 2025N/a

  A slatted cattle house with underground slurry accommodation, ancillary concrete and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 25102

• 16 Jan 2023Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING THATCHED FARMHOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION IN ITS PLACE AS WELL AS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE PROPOSED WORKS ARE TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF: 53-020 LISTED UNDER THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES (RPS) FOR COUNTY OFFALY

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 238

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STRAW BEDDED SHEEP HOUSE, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20636

• 25 Feb 2020Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING 20·METRE·HIGH TREBS STRUCTURE (TELECOMMUNICATIONS RENEWABLE ENERGY BASE STATION) WITH A 24 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, ALONG WITH ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CABINET AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN AN EXISTING FENCED COMPOUND ON EXISTING BASE AND USE OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK/ENTRANCE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2055

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  REPLACMENT OF EXISTING 20-METRE-HIGH TREBS STRUCTURE (TELECOMMUNICATIONS RENEWABLE ENERGY BASE STATION) WITH A 24 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, ALONG WITH ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CABINET AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN AN EXISTING FENCED COMPOUND ON EXISTING BASE AND USE OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK/ENTRANCE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19607

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 Ballyegan.

Recorded monuments

• OF038-004001 Enclosure
  Description

  Barely discernible outline of a destroyed enclosure consisting of a circular area (diam 43m) located on flat pasture land. Depicted as large circular enclosure on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF038-004002 Souterrain
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Burnt strip of grass evident in destroyed ringfort (OF038-004001-) which is locally referred to as the 'tunnel' which may indicate possible souterrain. 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

• Ballyeighan, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement country house, built c.1820, with bow to west-facing side elevation and recessed entrance porch. Three-bay two-storey wing to east, added c.1870. Hipped slate roof with limestone chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and an open eaves. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone plinth course, limestone eaves course and panelled pilasters to corners stretching from ground floor to eaves. Camber-arched window openings to ground floor, square-headed window openings to basement and first floor with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Round-headed stair light and bull's eye windows to east-facing side elevation. Canted bay window to additional wing. Square-headed door opening with limestone architrave surround and timber panelled door flanked by sidelights and set within a Neo-Greek propylaeum with fluted Doric columns and cornice. Door accessed up six limestone steps flanked by decorative cast-iron railings. Walled garden to south-west of house with pedimented limestone Ionic door surround incorporated. Cobbled yard accessed through arched opening with ranges of single and two-storey outbuildings. Wrought-iron gates supported by cast-iron piers to front site of house. Limestone panelled gates piers to road support replacement wrought-iron gates and railings. Former gate lodge adjacent.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with ER VII royal cipher and crown motif. No longer in use and with door missing. Maker's name 'W.T Allen & Co., London' in raised lettering at base. Located in the demesne walls beside entrance gates to Ballyeighan House.

• Ballyeighan, gate lodge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, c.1880, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront. Pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront) with "Fleur-de-Lys"-crested roll moulded ridge tiles, grouped rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge (west) having "Cavetto" stringcourse below capping, timber bargeboards on timber consoles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber consoles with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on chamfered plinth with "rustic" rendered quoins to corners. Shouldered square-headed central door opening in shouldered camber-headed open internal porch with glazed timber panelled door. Shouldered square-headed window opening (gable) with "slated" sill, and rendered surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement casement window. Shouldered square-headed window openings with sills, and surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Ballyeighan with piers to perimeter having roll moulded cruciform capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with exposed scolloping to ridge and having rendered chimneystacks. Limewashed lime-plastered walls with heavy stone buttress to north-east corner. Timber sash windows. Shallow windbreak sheltered under thatch with timber panelled door. Extension to rear with pitched slated roof and concrete walls and. Outbuilding with pitched corrugated iron roof and stone walls to north gable.

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 high, moderately low, 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_1621 (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.

• Ballyegan, Birr5 sales

Name

Ballyegan · Baile Uí Aogáin

Area

3,262,942 m² (326.29 ha, 806.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Kilcolman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolman electoral division: 398 people in 143 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygaddy, Clonkelly, Kilnalacka, Kylenamuck (Co. Tipperary), Rath Beg, Tinnakilly (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Ballyegan 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.