Ballynacard

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacard, from 277 m² to 515,032 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynacard 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.

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  Construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460413

• 7 Oct 2024N/a

  construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460388

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO HOUSE, RETENTION OF OUTBUILDINGS, GARAGE, SHEDS AND MOBILE HOME

  Retention, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 18566

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 Ballynacard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacard.

Architectural heritage

• Ballynacard House, country house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile country house, built in 1854, with farmyard and walled garden to north. Situated in its own extensive grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, roof hidden behind parapet. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone plinth, quoins, string course and frieze and cornice to parapet. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone surrounds and sills, ground floor window surrounds surmounted by frieze and cornice. Round-headed stairlight to western elevation with timber sash windows, tooled limestone surround and sill. Main central entrance to eastern elevation with square-headed door opening with glazed timber double doors within tooled limestone door surround. Door flanked by sidelights with limestone pilasters with fluted console brackets supporting frieze and cornice, accessed by limestone steps. Square-headed door opening to western elevation with tooled limestone surround surmounted by frieze and cornice and accessed by limestone steps with glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed door opening to northern elevation with tooled limestone surround surmounted by frieze and cornice with glazed timber panelled door with overlight and accessed by limestone steps. Glazed timber canted porch to southern elevation with timber panelled pilasters to frieze and dentil cornice. Small enclosed yard to northern elevation. Farm complex to north of house in ruinous state with four ranges of outbuildings of random coursed stone walls surrounding walled inner yard. South-eastern range incorporates older structure with timber lintels and single mud wall. Walled garden to north-east with random coursed stone walls, small stream runs through cut stone arch within north-western wall and northern wall curves to follow run of stream. Main entrance south of house through rendered gate piers with remains of former gate lodge to west.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballynacard, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynacard.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballynacard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballynacard · Baile an Chearda

Area

1,577,729 m² (157.77 ha, 389.87 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

454 people lived in 152 households in the Drumcullen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagoogy, Ballykealy, Ballynacurra, Broughal, Clontaglass, Curraghmore, Davistown, Derry Lower, Dovehill, Glenamony Glebe

Placenames

Ballynacard 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.