# Ballyfore Big, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Ford Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 861,519 m² (86.15 ha, 212.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 17 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballynakill.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Monasteroris, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 892 people lived in 302 households in the Monasteroris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41717 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180139 - Centre: latitude 53.322575, longitude -7.112449 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfore Big, from 16 m² to 250,836 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5687467: 250,836 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5687467.md - Parcel 308132: 147,414 m² (14.74 ha, 36.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308132.md - Parcel 291387: 89,968 m² (9 ha, 22.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291387.md - Parcel 300327: 71,044 m² (7.1 ha, 17.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300327.md - Parcel 269899: 67,325 m² (6.73 ha, 16.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269899.md - Parcel 282691: 30,289 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282691.md - Parcel 270193: 30,167 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270193.md - Parcel 4903474: 28,923 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903474.md - Parcel 299324: 25,349 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299324.md - Parcel 293440: 22,967 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293440.md - Parcel 271054: 15,340 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271054.md - Parcel 277244: 5,922 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277244.md - Parcel 300934: 4,725 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300934.md - Parcel 4649097: 4,393 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649097.md - Parcel 287083: 3,729 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287083.md - Parcel 5506047: 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5506047.md - Parcel 306561: 3,012 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306561.md - Parcel 270767: 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270767.md - Parcel 4637363: 2,424 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637363.md - Parcel 3438776: 2,419 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3438776.md - Parcel 3133669: 2,345 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3133669.md - Parcel 285791: 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285791.md - Parcel 4684942: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4684942.md - Parcel 4659468: 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659468.md - Parcel 5548437: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5548437.md - Parcel 4903470: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903470.md - Parcel 271696: 2,244 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271696.md - Parcel 5791751: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791751.md - Parcel 5994016: 2,023 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994016.md - Parcel 4805204: 2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4805204.md - Parcel 286124: 2,006 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286124.md - Parcel 302337: 1,961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/302337.md - Parcel 310332: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310332.md - Parcel 285793: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285793.md - Parcel 281438: 1,867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281438.md - Parcel 3133606: 1,768 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3133606.md - Parcel 313541: 1,753 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313541.md - Parcel 5291447: 1,722 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291447.md - Parcel 310866: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310866.md - Parcel 285792: 1,627 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285792.md - Parcel 5291498: 1,380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291498.md - Parcel 286125: 1,210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286125.md - Parcel 4222310: 1,184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222310.md - Parcel 3133525: 834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3133525.md - Parcel 273896: 703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273896.md - Parcel 5291497: 660 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291497.md - Parcel 286123: 373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286123.md - Parcel 5291431: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291431.md - Parcel 5291427: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291427.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfore Big in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 17 applications, newest first. - 13 Aug 2026, Offaly County Council 2671: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2671/0 - 26 May 2026, Offaly County Council 2660281: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. erection of one two storey domestic dwelling, c/w P.I.A. approved wastewater treatment system to EN 12566-3, one car garage/fuel store, entrance driveway & partial hedge removal c/w entrance piers/wall, and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660281/0 - 12 May 2026, Offaly County Council 2660264: N/a. Permission. THE ERECTION OF ONE, TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, C/W P.I.A APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EN 12566-3, ONE CAR GARAGE/FUELSTORE, ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY & PARTIAL HEDGE REMOVAL C/W ENTRANCE PIERS/WALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660264/0 - 1 May 2026, Offaly County Council 2660238: N/a. Permission. construction of 1 No. Loose Dry Sow house together with all ancillary structures and associated site works on existing pig farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660238/0 - 23 Apr 2026, Offaly County Council 2660213: N/a. Permission. construction of 1 No. Loose Dry Sow house together with all ancillary structures and associated site works on existing pig farm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660213/0 - 27 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2560203: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF ONE, TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, C/W P.I.A APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EN 12566-3, ONE CAR GARAGE/FUELSTORE, ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY & PARTIAL HEDGE REMOVAL C/W ENTRANCE PIERS/WALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560203/0 - 23 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2560188: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF ONE, TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, C/W P.I.A APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EN 12566-3, ONE CAR GARAGE/FUELSTORE, ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY & PARTIAL HEDGE REMOVAL C/W ENTRANCE PIERS/WALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560188/0 - 9 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2560166: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF ONE, TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING, C/W P.I.A APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EN 12566-3, ONE CAR GARAGE/FUELSTORE, ENTRANCE DRIVEWAY & PARTIAL HEDGE REMOVAL C/W ENTRANCE PIERS/WALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560166/0 - 25 Jul 2022, Offaly County Council 22370: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. UNDER FILE REF:PL2/21/633 FOR TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH SECONDARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22370/0 - 12 Oct 2021, Offaly County Council 21633: Conditional. Outline permission. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH SECONDARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21633/0 - 26 Jul 2021, Offaly County Council 21459: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING UNDER PL2/17/31 ON 29/05/2017 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21459/0 - 28 Jun 2021, Offaly County Council 21394: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA & NEW ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21394/0 - 4 Sept 2017, Offaly County Council 17328: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. VELUX WINDOWS AT FRONT ELEVATION, BEDROOM AT 1ST FLOOR LEVEL, ATTIC STORAGE, STAIR ACCESS TO ATTIC STORAGE, EXTENDED AREA OF SUN ROOM AT REAR AND 4 VELUX WINDOWS TO REAR, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT KITCHEN EXTENSION, UTILITY ROOM TO REAR AND BEDROOM EN SUITE EXTENSIONS ON GROUND AND 1ST FLOOR. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17328/0 - 10 Feb 2017, Offaly County Council 1747: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH STANDARD PERCOLATION AREA, (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1747/0 - 3 Feb 2017, Offaly County Council 1730: N/a. Permission. (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH STANDARD PERCOLATION AREA, (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1730/0 - 3 Feb 2017, Offaly County Council 1731: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH STANDARD PERCOLATION AREA, (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1731/0 - 31 Jan 2017, Offaly County Council 1728: N/a. Permission. (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH STANDARD PERCOLATION AREA, (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (E) NEW LANDSCAPING, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1728/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyfore Big. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF011-063: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF011-063----. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 March 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfore Big. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyfore Big, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2241, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2241.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyfore Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardbash: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardbash.md - Ballinla: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinla.md - Ballycolgan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycolgan.md - Ballyfore Little: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-little.md - Ballyleakin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyleakin.md - Ballymoran: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymoran.md - Ballynanum: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynanum.md - Clarkville: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clarkville.md - Rogerstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rogerstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyfore-big