# Ballynacurra, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Churraigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 881,294 m² (88.13 ha, 217.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,616 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/41302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180177 - Centre: latitude 53.16261, longitude -7.804813 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacurra, from 88 m² to 278,122 m² (27.81 ha, 68.73 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 279205: 278,122 m² (27.81 ha, 68.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279205.md - Parcel 270334: 101,586 m² (10.16 ha, 25.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270334.md - Parcel 2488579: 97,536 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488579.md - Parcel 291489: 64,347 m² (6.43 ha, 15.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291489.md - Parcel 297108: 63,033 m² (6.3 ha, 15.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297108.md - Parcel 273114: 42,032 m² (4.2 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273114.md - Parcel 279809: 41,629 m² (4.16 ha, 10.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279809.md - Parcel 302001: 36,454 m² (3.65 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302001.md - Parcel 2488584: 35,426 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488584.md - Parcel 271475: 28,571 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271475.md - Parcel 2488586: 27,616 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488586.md - Parcel 5105648: 24,986 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105648.md - Parcel 296992: 12,986 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296992.md - Parcel 5105649: 11,325 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105649.md - Parcel 5402592: 4,651 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5402592.md - Parcel 301261: 4,173 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301261.md - Parcel 360081: 3,528 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360081.md - Parcel 307371: 1,658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307371.md - Parcel 305684: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305684.md - Parcel 306919: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306919.md - Parcel 5402595: 88 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5402595.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballynacurra 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) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Aug 2026, Offaly County Council 2660416: N/a. Retention, 1 home. a single-storey side extension to the existing dwelling house including the demolition/removal of the former attached side shed that previously occupied part of the footprint of the extension. Permission for the completion of side extension, permission to decommission existing septic tank and provide a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660416/0 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 Ballynacurra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacurra. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynacurra. ## 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 Ballynacurra, about 1 in 5 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynacurra. - 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/ballynacurra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacurra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacurra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballynacurra 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) - Ballynacard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacard.md - Derry Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derry-lower.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/ballynacurra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballynacurra