Ballymoran

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymoran, from 38 m² to 431,718 m² (43.17 ha, 106.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballymoran 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.

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20516

• 14 Feb 2020Refused

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2040

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 Ballymoran.

Recorded monuments

• OF011-023001 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photos (CUCAP APH 77, 78, 79) show remains of possible enclosure and field system (OF011-023002-). Nothing visible on ground surface. Fields appear too regular to be old but enclosure also appears on aerial photo (GSI N453/4). 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

• OF011-023002 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photos (CUCAP APH 77, 78, 79) show remains of possible enclosure (OF011-023001-) and field system. Nothing visible on ground surface. Fields appear too regular to be old but enclosure also appears on aerial photo (GSI N453/4). 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

• Ballymoran House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with return to rear and extension to south-west. Stable complex and outbuildings located to north-west. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Rendered walls. Replacement timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround. Timber fluted Doric columns flank entrance and support frieze, cornice and decorative fanlight. Timber panelled door with brass door furniture accessed by granite steps with wrought-iron bootscraper. Tooled limestone bollards flank steps. Square-headed door opening within return with tooled limestone block-and-start surround, timber panelled boor, tooled limestone steps with wrought-iron bootscraper. Rear accessed through wrought-iron gates. Roughcast rendered outbuildings with slate roofs surround rear yard containing cast-iron water pump. House accessed through square-profile rendered gate piers flanked by quadrant walls, wrought-iron gates with stone wheel guards lead to tree lined avenue with cut stone gate piers to north-east of house.

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 Ballymoran.

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

Name

Ballymoran · Baile Uí Mhóráin

Area

1,637,491 m² (163.75 ha, 404.63 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteroris, 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

Ballyfore Big, Ballyleakin, Clarkville, Esker More, Leitrim, Lumville, Rathlumber

Placenames

Ballymoran 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.