Ballykealy

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykealy, from 80 m² to 411,944 m² (41.19 ha, 101.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballykealy 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  existing agricultural developments and all associated siteworks at Carrigeen, Fivealley, Birr, Co. Offaly. These developments consist of Milking Parlour Shed & Silo, Cow Cubicle Sheds, Machinery/Straw Sheds, Workshop, Cow Sheds with Slatted Effluent Storage Tanks, Silage Pits, Lay-By and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560254

• 21 Jun 2025Conditional

  Permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560255

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, HOME OFFICE, SHED, ACCESS ROAD, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21238

• 24 Mar 2021N/a

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ACCESS ROAD, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21149

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED BORED WELL AND SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17185

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: Lough Coura 000909

Recorded monuments

• OF030-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E facing slope of a natural rise in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 44m E-W ) enclosed by a gently sloping earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m; Wth 2m) with no evidence of an outer fosse. Possible entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW. 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

• OF030-084 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Unlocated castle within the townland of Ballykelly (Loeber 1988 vol. 1, 20). According to Loeber in 1622, Bostock King purchased the lands and castle of Ballinkelly [Ballykealy] from the Earl of Kildare. A pile of stones in a field known locally as 'The Castle Field' may represent the remains of Ballykealy Castle (pers. comm. Brian Pey 28 July 2009). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykealy.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballykealy.

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

Name

Ballykealy · Baile Uí Chaollaí

Area

1,177,111 m² (117.71 ha, 290.87 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Derryad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryad electoral division: 276 people in 89 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagoogy, Ballynacard, Carrigeen, Derryad, Derrymullin and Loughderry, Glenamony Glebe, Parkmore

Placenames

Ballykealy 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.