# Ballyleakin, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Leacainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,126,959 m² (112.7 ha, 278.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballynakill.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Monasteroris, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 892 people lived in 302 households in the Monasteroris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/41719 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180158 - Centre: latitude 53.312274, longitude -7.119994 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyleakin, from 310 m² to 538,988 m² (53.9 ha, 133.19 acres); 40 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 295998: 538,988 m² (53.9 ha, 133.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295998.md - Parcel 303474: 511,178 m² (51.12 ha, 126.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303474.md - Parcel 360829: 18,432 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360829.md - Parcel 2485628: 8,477 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485628.md - Parcel 313793: 5,982 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313793.md - Parcel 310349: 4,010 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310349.md - Parcel 284078: 3,952 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284078.md - Parcel 310334: 3,030 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310334.md - Parcel 3766247: 2,691 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766247.md - Parcel 3766291: 2,678 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766291.md - Parcel 272254: 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272254.md - Parcel 2484629: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484629.md - Parcel 292039: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292039.md - Parcel 285570: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285570.md - Parcel 269507: 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269507.md - Parcel 306564: 2,082 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306564.md - Parcel 5080848: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080848.md - Parcel 289134: 1,830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/289134.md - Parcel 360085: 1,785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360085.md - Parcel 271108: 1,647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271108.md - Parcel 300935: 1,629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300935.md - Parcel 360025: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360025.md - Parcel 301573: 1,152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301573.md - Parcel 287826: 884 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287826.md - Parcel 4989325: 833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4989325.md - Parcel 360252: 614 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360252.md - Parcel 300032: 310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300032.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 11 Dec 2025, Offaly County Council 2560637: N/a. Retention, 1 home. an existing mobile home with all associated site works and Permission for continuance of temporary residential use for a period of 5 years. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560637/0 - 5 Nov 2025, Offaly County Council 2560532: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560532/0 - 23 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560439: N/a. Retention. an existing mobile home, for temporary residential use for a period of 5 years, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560439/0 - 24 Jul 2025, Offaly County Council 2574: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2574/0 - 10 Jul 2025, Offaly County Council 2570: N/a. Permission. (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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2570/0 - 15 Mar 2022, Offaly County Council 22122: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/ PERCOLATION AREA, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22122/0 - 21 Dec 2017, Offaly County Council 17506: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PORCH EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17506/0 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 Ballyleakin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF011-030: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF011-030----. 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 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 Ballyleakin. ## 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 Ballyleakin, 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 low. - 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, 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/ballyleakin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyleakin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyleakin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyleakin 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) - Ballinrath: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinrath.md - Ballyfore Big: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.md - Ballyfore Little: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-little.md - Ballykilleen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykilleen-180153.md - Ballymoran: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymoran.md - Ballynakill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynakill-180182.md - Rathlumber: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathlumber.md - Rathvilla or Rathclonbrackan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathvilla-or-rathclonbrackan.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/ballyleakin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyleakin