# Ballyfore, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Croghan, barony of Philipstown Lower, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Fobhair.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,283,244 m² (228.32 ha, 564.2 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,788 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Croghan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/croghan.md
- Barony: Philipstown Lower
- Electoral division: Croghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Croghan electoral division: 570 people in 182 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/41675
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180138
- Centre: latitude 53.361968, longitude -7.278615 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfore, from 2,138 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 663,553 m² (66.36 ha, 163.97 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 269815: 663,553 m² (66.36 ha, 163.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269815.md
- Parcel 305621: 282,400 m² (28.24 ha, 69.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305621.md
- Parcel 314458: 274,260 m² (27.43 ha, 67.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314458.md
- Parcel 303868: 137,272 m² (13.73 ha, 33.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303868.md
- Parcel 4667310: 94,318 m² (9.43 ha, 23.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4667310.md
- Parcel 270917: 73,121 m² (7.31 ha, 18.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270917.md
- Parcel 4750055: 70,110 m² (7.01 ha, 17.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4750055.md
- Parcel 273057: 65,916 m² (6.59 ha, 16.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273057.md
- Parcel 275218: 62,215 m² (6.22 ha, 15.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275218.md
- Parcel 360844: 55,845 m² (5.58 ha, 13.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360844.md
- Parcel 299935: 55,066 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299935.md
- Parcel 308237: 54,224 m² (5.42 ha, 13.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308237.md
- Parcel 300279: 51,590 m² (5.16 ha, 12.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300279.md
- Parcel 277461: 42,899 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277461.md
- Parcel 273316: 37,990 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273316.md
- Parcel 300440: 35,640 m² (3.56 ha, 8.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300440.md
- Parcel 302528: 33,969 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302528.md
- Parcel 301219: 32,846 m² (3.28 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301219.md
- Parcel 2475645: 24,730 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475645.md
- Parcel 298780: 23,183 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298780.md
- Parcel 295406: 20,152 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295406.md
- Parcel 2484617: 17,329 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484617.md
- Parcel 299389: 17,105 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299389.md
- Parcel 276188: 10,638 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276188.md
- Parcel 5188769: 6,595 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5188769.md
- Parcel 4222359: 5,100 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222359.md
- Parcel 302589: 4,909 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302589.md
- Parcel 275490: 4,734 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275490.md
- Parcel 3880318: 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3880318.md
- Parcel 4785254: 4,284 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785254.md
- Parcel 2475635: 3,585 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475635.md
- Parcel 293549: 3,198 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293549.md
- Parcel 308520: 2,678 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308520.md
- Parcel 268962: 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268962.md
- Parcel 277198: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277198.md
- Parcel 295821: 2,138 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295821.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfore 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 11 Apr 2023, Offaly County Council 23158: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23158/0
- 24 Mar 2023, Offaly County Council 23127: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23127/0
- 2 Dec 2020, Offaly County Council 20602: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1.) A DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED (2.) INCREASE OF OVERALL HEIGHT OF EXISTING HOUSE AND FIVE ROOFLIGHT WINDOWS IN THE REAR ELEVATION AND ANY ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20602/0

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.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF003-003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF003-003----. This site was located on flat land which bordered marshy land. The site has good views in all directions. There was no surface evidence of the site in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map. The site however showed up as a cropmark on the GSI aerial photographs of the area (GSI N 586/7; 486/5). 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 Date of upload/revision: 19 December 2011
- OF003-004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF003-004----. Situated on flat marshy land in close proximity to archaeological site (OF003-003----). There was no surface remains of this area marked on the OS 6-inch map. The site however showed up as a cropmark on the aerial photographs taken in 1973 of the area (GSI N 486/5). 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 Date of upload/revision: 19 December 2011

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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Ballyfore.
- 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.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballyfore 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)

- Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballybeg-180091.md
- Bunsallagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bunsallagh.md
- Cannakill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cannakill.md
- Derryarkin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derryarkin.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.

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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
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