Ballykilcross

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballykilcross, from 308,309 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 acres) to 308,309 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballykilcross 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.

• 5 Mar 2020Refused

  A TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF 2 NO.WIND TURBINES, EACH WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF UP TO 160 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT, ACCESS AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS; INCLUDING TURBINE FOUNDATIONS, HARDSTANDING AREAS, SITE ACCESS TRACKS, 1 NO. SITE ENTRANCE, ELECTRICAL SWITCHROOM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLING. THE COMBINED ELECTRICAL OUTPUT OF THE WIND TURBINES SHALL NOT EXCEED 4.98 MEGAWATTS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE WIND TURBINES. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2070

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballykilcross.

Recorded monuments

• OF002-034 Church
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Site was noted during fieldwork by staff of the SMR office on the 28th March 1988. The landowner stated that a church had existed here, but was destroyed. He recalled two stone troughs on the site, one which was smashed up and the other, presentl in the care of Mr. Goodbody of Tullamore (ASI file 1988). 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

• OF002-035 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Cropmark of a potential enclosure identified from 1973 GSI aerial photograph (GSI N 555/554). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballykilcross.

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

Name

Ballykilcross · Baile Giolla Chroise

Area

308,307 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride (Tullamore Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilcoursey

Electoral division

Clara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clara electoral division: 4,229 people in 1,487 households; 72% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard (Co. Westmeath), Ballicknahee, Ballynakill Big, Ballynakill Little, Correagh (Co. Westmeath), Kilmalady Big

Placenames

Ballykilcross 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.