Ballymacrossan

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacrossan, from 77 m² to 701,574 m² (70.16 ha, 173.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 61 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 Ballymacrossan 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.

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660393

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house and domestic garage, a septic tank and percolation area together with all ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460523

• 12 Dec 2024N/a

  The development will consist of a new dwelling house and domestic garage, a septic tank and percolation area together with all ancillary services

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460506

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2392

• 1 Oct 2018N/a

  A SINGLE STOREY SUNROOM TO THE WESTERN GABLE OF DWELLING; PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER, TWO STOREY, TWO BEDROOM FAMILY FLAT TO THE EASTERN GABLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO DORMER WINDOWS TO THE EXISTING FRONT ROOF OF DWELLING AND ALL SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18418

• 29 Aug 2018N/a

  CONSERVATORY EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN GABLE OF EXISTING BUNGALOW, THE CONSTRUCTION OF DORMER WINDOWS TO FRONT ROOF AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER FAMILY FLAT AT THE EASTERN GABLE OF EXISTING BUNGALOW

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18371

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

  A NEW MILKING PARLOUR/DAIRY SLATTED AND CUBICLE HOUSE FARM BUILDING WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18184

• 25 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17366

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 Ballymacrossan.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. In boggy land now planted with trees, aerial photographs (GSI, N 176/5) shows outline of circular 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

• OF033-001 Mound
  Description

  Marked on 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map as a mound surrounded by a fosse. Levelled, no visible surface traces. 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 Ballymacrossan.

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 Ballymacrossan.

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

Name

Ballymacrossan · Baile Mhic Crosáin

Area

5,020,545 m² (502.05 ha, 1,240.6 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ard, Backwood, Ballyavill, Clonygowan, Coolavoran Coolagh and Derrymullen (Co. Laois), Cooltycanon, Fearnamona, Gorteenard, Kilcavan (Co. Laois), Roskeen (Co. Laois), Sranure

Placenames

Ballymacrossan 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.