# Ballyloughan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Locháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,251,247 m² (125.12 ha, 309.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,583 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180165 - Centre: latitude 53.235933, longitude -7.893469 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughan, from 127 m² to 153,253 m² (15.33 ha, 37.87 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 268989: 153,253 m² (15.33 ha, 37.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268989.md - Parcel 298150: 104,225 m² (10.42 ha, 25.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298150.md - Parcel 291422: 45,834 m² (4.58 ha, 11.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291422.md - Parcel 274405: 38,433 m² (3.84 ha, 9.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274405.md - Parcel 307485: 26,691 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307485.md - Parcel 307085: 24,029 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307085.md - Parcel 282864: 19,334 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282864.md - Parcel 5629906: 17,261 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629906.md - Parcel 285274: 4,583 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285274.md - Parcel 294547: 4,162 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294547.md - Parcel 3832328: 4,039 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3832328.md - Parcel 291423: 3,605 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291423.md - Parcel 271161: 3,329 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271161.md - Parcel 310587: 1,931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310587.md - Parcel 275541: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/275541.md - Parcel 309842: 1,519 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/309842.md - Parcel 4222591: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222591.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyloughan 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 16 Aug 2022, Offaly County Council 22414: Conditional. Retention. 1 NO. COMMERCIAL UNIT WHICH CONSISTS OF A LOG CABIN FOR A SOLE TRADER WHICH INCLUDE SERVICES REQUIRED FOR SAME, AND A SINGLE DOMESTIC GARAGE, BOTH TO THE REAR OF PROPERTY ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22414/0 - 29 Mar 2022, Offaly County Council 22147: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND TO CONSTRUCT A REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REPLACE THE FRONT DOOR WITH A WINDOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22147/0 - 27 Jan 2017, Offaly County Council 1723: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING. THIS CONSISTS OF DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF ATTIC. ALSO THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW INDEPENDENT LIVING RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND NEW FUEL STORAGE SHED / GARAGE. CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, MAINS WATER SUPPLY AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1723/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF022-009: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-009----. Not visible at ground level. Possible old river bed. Not marked on any ed. OS 6-inch maps but identifed as a possible enclosure of archaeological significance from GSI aerial photographs taken in April 1973 (GSI N 190/189) and June 1973 (N 522/21). 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 Ballyloughan. ## 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 Ballyloughan, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyloughan. - 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/ballyloughan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyloughan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyloughan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyloughan 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) - Ballingowan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballingowan-glebe.md - Ballyshane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyshane-180207.md - Bellmount or Lisderg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bellmount-or-lisderg.md - Camus: https://everytownland.com/offaly/camus.md - Cloghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghan-180347.md - Creggan and Glosterboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan-and-glosterboy.md - Drishoge or Strawberryhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drishoge-or-strawberryhill.md - Galros: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros.md - Killeenboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeenboy.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/ballyloughan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyloughan