# Ballyhugh or Springfield, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Mhic Aodha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 729,015 m² (72.9 ha, 180.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballynakill.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Esker, the unit of the census - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41702 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180146 - Centre: latitude 53.301957, longitude -7.211575 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhugh or Springfield, from 45 m² to 206,558 m² (20.66 ha, 51.04 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 276503: 206,558 m² (20.66 ha, 51.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276503.md - Parcel 307806: 178,064 m² (17.81 ha, 44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307806.md - Parcel 300101: 64,276 m² (6.43 ha, 15.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300101.md - Parcel 4668682: 56,119 m² (5.61 ha, 13.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668682.md - Parcel 277295: 42,558 m² (4.26 ha, 10.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277295.md - Parcel 5871234: 36,360 m² (3.64 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5871234.md - Parcel 295908: 36,196 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295908.md - Parcel 276969: 29,574 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276969.md - Parcel 276747: 25,592 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276747.md - Parcel 291227: 16,739 m² (1.67 ha, 4.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291227.md - Parcel 4759664: 6,447 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759664.md - Parcel 304646: 6,255 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304646.md - Parcel 4395722: 3,484 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4395722.md - Parcel 2674722: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674722.md - Parcel 5409447: 3,014 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5409447.md - Parcel 4952240: 2,594 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952240.md - Parcel 4903634: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903634.md - Parcel 4761986: 2,350 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4761986.md - Parcel 308764: 2,337 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308764.md - Parcel 312803: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312803.md - Parcel 305438: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305438.md - Parcel 4668695: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668695.md - Parcel 4903637: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903637.md - Parcel 359390: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359390.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhugh or Springfield 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 29 Nov 2024, Offaly County Council 2460474: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460474/0 - 17 Nov 2024, Offaly County Council 2460458: N/a. Permission. A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460458/0 - 22 Jan 2020, Offaly County Council 209: Conditional. Retention. TWO BAYS OF AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING AN AUTOMATED MILKING PARLOUR, CALVING AREA AND CATTLE CUBICLES INCLUDING AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/209/0 - 13 Dec 2019, Offaly County Council 19595: N/a. Retention. TWO BAYS OF AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCOPORATING AN AUTOMATED MILKING PAARLOUR, CALVING AREA AND CATTLE CUBICLES INCLUDING AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19595/0 - 3 Mar 2017, Offaly County Council 1782: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND AN ADJACENT DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1782/0 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 Ballyhugh or Springfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhugh or Springfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Springfield House, country house, 1730–1770, Regional interest, registry number 14919002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14919002. Detached seven-bay two-storey double-pile country house, built c.1750, with outbuildings to east and remains of walled garden to north. Double-span pitched slate roof treated with tar with cut stone coping to gable ends, cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with roughcast render to walls, pedimented breakfront with tooled stone string course and coping to pediment. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills to façade. Round-headed stair light with timber sash window. Diocletian window. Replacement timber casement and timber sash windows to rear with tooled stone sills. Remains of walled garden to north. Yard to east accessed through stone outbuilding with integral carriage arch. Stone ranges of outbuildings to north-east. Rear entrance with circular random coursed stone gate piers to wrought-iron gates. Main entrance with tooled limestone octagonal gate piers, quadrant walls and wrought-iron gates no longer used. ## 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 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 Ballyhugh or Springfield. - 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/ballyhugh-or-springfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyhugh-or-springfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyhugh-or-springfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhugh or Springfield 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) - Ballycon: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycon.md - Ballyhugh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyhugh.md - Esker Beg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/esker-beg.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeen-180812.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180989.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/ballyhugh-or-springfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyhugh-or-springfield