Ballyfarrell

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfarrell, from 23 m² to 403,945 m² (40.39 ha, 99.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Ballyfarrell 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.

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22362

• 20 Dec 2021Refused

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO REPLACE EXISTING ENTRANCE, NEW DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21792

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  (I) SLATTED SHED (II) SLATTED TANK IS ALSO REQUIRED. PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (I) CUBICLE SHED WITH MILKING AREA, OFFICE, CRUSH, LOOSE AREAS, SLATTED TANK (II) EXTENSION TO SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20582

• 15 May 2020Conditional

  AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL A NEW PITCHED ROOF TO THE EXISTING GARAGE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO CONSIST OF RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EN-SUITE WITH NORTH FACING WINDOW AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20179

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19301

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcormac Esker 000906

Recorded monuments

• OF024-012 Church
  Description

  Situated in a grove of trees and thorn bushes on top of esker ridge running E-W with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Poorly preserved ivy-covered ruins of single cell undivided church (int. dims. 7.25m E-W; c. 5.7m N-S; wall T 0.85m) which appears to date from the 17th century based on wall thickness which measures 0.85m. Only the NE angle of the church survives upstanding. A section of the E end of the N wall (int. L 3.45m; H 2.2m) survives upstanding along with a short section of the N end of the E gable (int. L 1.2m; H 2.1m). The lower wall footings of the N wall (H 0.2-0.4m) and the W gable can still be seen with no surface remains visible for the line of the S wall of the church. Collapsed rubble from the E gable of the church lies on the line of this levelled wall. No doorway visible and no architectural features survive. The walls of the church were built with coursed limestone rubble with evidence of rendering still visible on external face of N wall of church. The quoin stones of the NE angle of the church have been robbed out. There is no evidence for any enclosing graveyard. The grass covered footings of a possible wall belonging to an old road can be seen a few meters to the E of the church. 30m N of the church can be seen the remains of a short section of a sunken roadway which is depicted on the 1838 edition OS 6-inch map. The dating of this roadway is uncertain but it probably is contemporaneous with the church building. This building is marked on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a Roman Catholic Chapel in ruins. The dating of this building in uncertain with some sources suggesting a late 17th century date while others record an early 18th century date for its foundation. In the history of the Diocese of Meath, Cogan (1867 vol II, 514) states that 'there was an old chapel at Ballyfarrell, never roofed'. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1839 recorded that 'there is a Church in ruins in Ballyfarrell townland, but there is no burial' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 48). In 1942 the ITA Survey recorded that a 'section of one end wall and side wall' remain standing and that 'there was no local knowledge that it is supposed to be 300yrs old' (SMR File). According to Reverend Shaw (1971, 26) the building of this church commenced shortly after 1686 and that there was over the entrance door 'the head of a stone statue, known locally as the "Cully Angel", and the new church was just ready for roofing when the English Protestants deposed King James and put William of Orange on the throne, so the Friars church was never roofed, though its gable and portion of its side walls still stand'. This stone carving has been inserted into the altar at the Mass rock in Chapel Hollow. According to the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society this church dates from the start of the 18th-century. Described by the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society in 1974 as 'W and N walls standing. This has to be a church started in 1704 but worked stopped before 1710 (OHAS file 1974). According to the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society the chapel measured '4m in length (internal) 1.3m in width. West wall 3m high. N wall 5m high' (OHAS File 1974). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 June 2015

• OF024-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on any ed. OS 6-inch maps but identified as a possible enclosure of archaeological significance from GSI aerial photographs taken in April 1973 (GSI N 515/14). Not visible at ground level. 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 Ballyfarrell.

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 Ballyfarrell.

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 Ballyfarrell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballyfarrell · Baile Fearaíl

Area

2,157,517 m² (215.75 ha, 533.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killoughy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killoughy electoral division: 771 people in 261 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycore, Coolanarney, Cully, Curraghmeelagh, Currygurry, Garbally or Foxglen, Glasshouse, Kilmore, Lowerton More, Lugglass, Pallas

Placenames

Ballyfarrell 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.