# Ballykeenaghan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Uí Choinneacháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,448,300 m² (144.83 ha, 357.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,761 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/42209 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180149 - Centre: latitude 53.284377, longitude -7.578377 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeenaghan, from 852 m² to 274,956 m² (27.5 ha, 67.94 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 292997: 274,956 m² (27.5 ha, 67.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292997.md - Parcel 309811: 266,202 m² (26.62 ha, 65.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309811.md - Parcel 276496: 147,585 m² (14.76 ha, 36.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276496.md - Parcel 309129: 129,406 m² (12.94 ha, 31.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309129.md - Parcel 273929: 125,624 m² (12.56 ha, 31.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273929.md - Parcel 284456: 110,478 m² (11.05 ha, 27.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284456.md - Parcel 4951304: 102,389 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951304.md - Parcel 279723: 78,873 m² (7.89 ha, 19.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279723.md - Parcel 308586: 59,836 m² (5.98 ha, 14.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308586.md - Parcel 293134: 53,847 m² (5.38 ha, 13.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293134.md - Parcel 294432: 30,870 m² (3.09 ha, 7.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294432.md - Parcel 2682717: 27,199 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682717.md - Parcel 4675604: 4,997 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675604.md - Parcel 3806587: 4,525 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3806587.md - Parcel 279439: 4,335 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279439.md - Parcel 285376: 3,922 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285376.md - Parcel 286146: 3,701 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286146.md - Parcel 311578: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311578.md - Parcel 2682714: 2,675 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682714.md - Parcel 305121: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305121.md - Parcel 306583: 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306583.md - Parcel 288591: 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288591.md - Parcel 305708: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305708.md - Parcel 2682697: 1,847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682697.md - Parcel 281907: 1,378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281907.md - Parcel 2682722: 852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682722.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballykeenaghan 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2554: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2554/0 - 14 Apr 2025, Offaly County Council 2560124: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560124/0 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 Ballykeenaghan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF016-052: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-052----. No surface remains visible of any enclosures identified as potential monuments from aerial photographs (Leo Swan photographs). Of doubtful antiquity. 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 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 Ballykeenaghan. ## 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 Ballykeenaghan, about 1 in 5 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_1906, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1906.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/ballykeenaghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykeenaghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykeenaghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballykeenaghan 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) - Aghalusky: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghalusky.md - Ballynamire: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynamire.md - Ballynasrah: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynasrah-180195.md - Kilgortin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgortin.md - Murragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/murragh.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/ballykeenaghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballykeenaghan