# Ballynacard, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Chearda. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,577,729 m² (157.77 ha, 389.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,705 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Drumcullen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41235 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180175 - Centre: latitude 53.167715, longitude -7.800112 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacard, from 277 m² to 515,032 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 307649: 515,032 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307649.md - Parcel 314535: 260,417 m² (26.04 ha, 64.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314535.md - Parcel 302948: 146,877 m² (14.69 ha, 36.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302948.md - Parcel 294041: 133,146 m² (13.31 ha, 32.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294041.md - Parcel 293310: 130,650 m² (13.07 ha, 32.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293310.md - Parcel 4643389: 101,240 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643389.md - Parcel 312768: 98,348 m² (9.83 ha, 24.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312768.md - Parcel 291479: 84,911 m² (8.49 ha, 20.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291479.md - Parcel 295713: 37,626 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295713.md - Parcel 5561740: 28,705 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5561740.md - Parcel 305100: 11,213 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305100.md - Parcel 4643425: 8,303 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643425.md - Parcel 360330: 6,727 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360330.md - Parcel 2476715: 6,113 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476715.md - Parcel 299293: 4,089 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299293.md - Parcel 277646: 2,830 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277646.md - Parcel 304478: 2,042 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304478.md - Parcel 359542: 1,912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359542.md - Parcel 5080127: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080127.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 18 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 2460413: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460413/0 - 7 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 2460388: N/a. Permission. construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460388/0 - 12 Dec 2018, Offaly County Council 18566: Conditional. Retention, 3 homes. EXTENSIONS TO HOUSE, RETENTION OF OUTBUILDINGS, GARAGE, SHEDS AND MOBILE HOME. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18566/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynacard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacard. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballynacard House, country house, 1850–1855, Regional interest, registry number 14931004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14931004. 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. ## 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 Ballynacard, 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 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 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/ballynacard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballynacard 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) - Aghagoogy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghagoogy.md - Ballykealy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykealy.md - Ballynacurra: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacurra.md - Broughal: https://everytownland.com/offaly/broughal.md - Clontaglass: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clontaglass.md - Curraghmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghmore-180542.md - Davistown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/davistown.md - Derry Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derry-lower.md - Dovehill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dovehill.md - Glenamony Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenamony-glebe.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/ballynacard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballynacard