# Ballykealy, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Uí Chaollaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,177,111 m² (117.71 ha, 290.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,570 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Derryad, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 276 people lived in 89 households in the Derryad electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41234 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180147 - Centre: latitude 53.164361, longitude -7.827002 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykealy, from 80 m² to 411,944 m² (41.19 ha, 101.79 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 309979: 411,944 m² (41.19 ha, 101.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309979.md - Parcel 271464: 195,368 m² (19.54 ha, 48.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271464.md - Parcel 270317: 156,679 m² (15.67 ha, 38.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270317.md - Parcel 284174: 78,903 m² (7.89 ha, 19.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284174.md - Parcel 298111: 67,826 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298111.md - Parcel 279797: 62,661 m² (6.27 ha, 15.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279797.md - Parcel 305674: 45,482 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305674.md - Parcel 308734: 40,904 m² (4.09 ha, 10.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308734.md - Parcel 274579: 35,760 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274579.md - Parcel 306911: 33,628 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306911.md - Parcel 310959: 18,570 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310959.md - Parcel 5887276: 8,597 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5887276.md - Parcel 2962739: 3,595 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2962739.md - Parcel 6094544: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6094544.md - Parcel 6094559: 3,372 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6094559.md - Parcel 306660: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306660.md - Parcel 283025: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283025.md - Parcel 361099: 1,913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/361099.md - Parcel 6112578: 1,745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6112578.md - Parcel 5887279: 1,591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5887279.md - Parcel 6112569: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6112569.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2560254: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560254/0 - 21 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2560255: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560255/0 - 23 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21238: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. NEW DWELLING HOUSE, HOME OFFICE, SHED, ACCESS ROAD, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21238/0 - 24 Mar 2021, Offaly County Council 21149: N/a. Permission. NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ACCESS ROAD, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21149/0 - 24 May 2017, Offaly County Council 17185: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17185/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Coura, site code 000909 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF030-009: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF030-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF030-084----. 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 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 Ballykealy. ## 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 Ballykealy, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/ballykealy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykealy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykealy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballykealy 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) - Aghagoogy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghagoogy.md - Ballynacard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacard.md - Carrigeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/carrigeen-180313.md - Derryad: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derryad-180578.md - Derrymullin and Loughderry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrymullin-and-loughderry.md - Glenamony Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenamony-glebe.md - Parkmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/parkmore.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/ballykealy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballykealy