Ballyknockan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan, from 1,927 m² to 561,919 m² (56.19 ha, 138.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballyknockan 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.

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  of dwelling house as constructed and permission to fit Tertiary Treatment System and infiltration / treatment area and all associated site works and services.

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560173

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  renovation and extension to derelict cottage, construction of garage, installation of Tertiary Treatment System and Infiltration / treatment area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560168

• 7 May 2025N/a

  dwelling house as constructed and permission to fit Tertiary Treatment System and infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works and services

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560160

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 Ballyknockan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknockan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknockan.

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

Name

Ballyknockan · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

951,170 m² (95.12 ha, 235.04 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagharvey, Ballina, Ballymooney, Killellery

Placenames

Ballyknockan 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.