Ballylevin

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylevin, from 938 m² to 451,083 m² (45.11 ha, 111.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballylevin 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.

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION INCORPORATING THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO GARAGE TO CONNECT WITH HOUSE TO FORM PART OF HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 20570

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 Ballylevin.

Recorded monuments

• OF025-019001 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. There is a silage pit located where the site is marked on the OS 6-inch map. Depicted on 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a semicircular enclosure with house attached to W side of enclosure. 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

• OF025-019002 House - 17th century
  Description

  Described by Loeber (1988, vol. 1, 55) as Ballylevan House (ext. dims. 17m x 7.5m) consisting of diagonal chimney stacks which originally had a thatched roof now replaced by a modern roof with a partial cellar underneath, orginal dormers in thatch that were replaced by 20th century windows. 1641 depositions of this area mentions Chas. Cosby of Ballyleven, Co. Offaly (TCD, MS 814 J. 546; Loeber 1988, vol. 1, 55). No evidence of any dwelling pre-1700 in area marked on six inch OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF025-020 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface evidence of any archaeological site in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map. Unlikely location for an archaeological site. No local tradition of any site ever been located in the area. 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 Ballylevin.

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 Ballylevin.

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

Name

Ballylevin · Baile an Leamhain

Area

1,999,004 m² (199.9 ha, 493.96 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Cappancur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyavill, Danganbeg, Finter, Parkbeg (Co. Laois), Raheenduff, Roskeen (Co. Laois)

Placenames

Ballylevin 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.