Ballyleakin

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyleakin, from 310 m² to 538,988 m² (53.9 ha, 133.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Ballyleakin 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.

• 11 Dec 2025N/a

  an existing mobile home with all associated site works and Permission for continuance of temporary residential use for a period of 5 years

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560637

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  and Permission for an existing mobile home. Retention for inital development and Planning Permission for future temporary residential use for a period of 5 years, together with all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560532

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  an existing mobile home, for temporary residential use for a period of 5 years, together with all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560439

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  (A) 1 NO. NEW TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) 1 NO. NEW STORAGE SHED (D) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (E) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (F) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2574

• 10 Jul 2025N/a

  (A) 1 NO. NEW TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING , (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE(C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2570

• 15 Mar 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/ PERCOLATION AREA, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22122

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PORCH EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17506

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 Ballyleakin.

Recorded monuments

• OF011-030 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Probably a tower house but nothing remains except a few pieces of medieval stonework in secondary position in remains of old house. Shown on Down Survey (1655-6). (O'Flanagan 1933, 34). Located on good pasture land with extensive views all round. Not visible at ground level. Large shed has been built on site of castle. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyleakin · Baile an Leacainn

Area

1,126,959 m² (112.7 ha, 278.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Monasteroris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasteroris electoral division: 892 people in 302 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrath, Ballyfore Big, Ballyfore Little, Ballykilleen, Ballymoran, Ballynakill, Rathlumber, Rathvilla or Rathclonbrackan

Placenames

Ballyleakin 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.