# Ballyroe, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Baile Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 922,776 m² (92.28 ha, 228.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,973 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Drumcullen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own 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/41280 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180204 - Centre: latitude 53.130116, longitude -7.760805 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe, from 315 m² to 237,919 m² (23.79 ha, 58.79 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 293851: 237,919 m² (23.79 ha, 58.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293851.md - Parcel 310074: 200,405 m² (20.04 ha, 49.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310074.md - Parcel 303382: 151,694 m² (15.17 ha, 37.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303382.md - Parcel 291513: 132,791 m² (13.28 ha, 32.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291513.md - Parcel 283042: 70,380 m² (7.04 ha, 17.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283042.md - Parcel 276713: 48,925 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276713.md - Parcel 296953: 23,627 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296953.md - Parcel 279823: 14,842 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279823.md - Parcel 2437312: 8,973 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2437312.md - Parcel 269998: 7,312 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269998.md - Parcel 274705: 6,498 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274705.md - Parcel 4222220: 5,277 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222220.md - Parcel 5777007: 4,517 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777007.md - Parcel 5180341: 4,071 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180341.md - Parcel 2484131: 3,603 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484131.md - Parcel 4651355: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651355.md - Parcel 5777043: 315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777043.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyroe 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Jul 2020, Offaly County Council 20271: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, THE BLOCKING UP OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20271/0 - 13 Aug 2019, Offaly County Council 19399: Refused. Permission, 1 home. THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, THE BLOCKING UP OF THE EXISTING ENTRANCE, AMENDEMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19399/0 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 Ballyroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF036-009: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-009----. Located on S facing slope of a low hill in an upland area. Raised circular platform area (diam 35m N-S; ext. H 1m) defined by a scarp and wide fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 1m) with causeway entrance (Wth 3.5m) at S. No evidence of an enclosing external bank. 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 - OF036-010: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-010----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 196/7) shows faint 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyroe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Ballyroe. - 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/ballyroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyroe 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) - Coagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coagh-lower.md - Coagh Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coagh-upper.md - Colmanstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/colmanstown.md - Curragh Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-lower.md - Curragh Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-upper.md - Kiltubbrid Island: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kiltubbrid-island.md - Laughil: https://everytownland.com/offaly/laughil-180882.md - Roundhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roundhill.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/ballyroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyroe