# Ballyshane, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Sheáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 514,006 m² (51.4 ha, 127.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,702 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41195 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180207 - Centre: latitude 53.238321, longitude -7.906167 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshane, from 1,117 m² to 71,224 m² (7.12 ha, 17.6 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 288913: 71,224 m² (7.12 ha, 17.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288913.md - Parcel 279675: 44,184 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279675.md - Parcel 312758: 42,685 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312758.md - Parcel 306962: 35,451 m² (3.55 ha, 8.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306962.md - Parcel 299829: 32,564 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299829.md - Parcel 305269: 30,810 m² (3.08 ha, 7.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305269.md - Parcel 288613: 23,478 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288613.md - Parcel 5629905: 23,284 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629905.md - Parcel 303547: 20,250 m² (2.03 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303547.md - Parcel 311860: 20,193 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311860.md - Parcel 312813: 20,075 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312813.md - Parcel 294461: 17,009 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294461.md - Parcel 299261: 15,862 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299261.md - Parcel 299907: 13,366 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299907.md - Parcel 309838: 12,332 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309838.md - Parcel 271416: 8,843 m² (0.88 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271416.md - Parcel 300170: 8,561 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300170.md - Parcel 302440: 8,348 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302440.md - Parcel 269587: 8,239 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269587.md - Parcel 300990: 8,135 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300990.md - Parcel 2486048: 7,328 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486048.md - Parcel 282861: 6,924 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282861.md - Parcel 310397: 6,336 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310397.md - Parcel 301150: 4,113 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301150.md - Parcel 299757: 4,082 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299757.md - Parcel 310664: 3,904 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310664.md - Parcel 301905: 3,563 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301905.md - Parcel 6143610: 2,813 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6143610.md - Parcel 311021: 2,679 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311021.md - Parcel 298151: 2,117 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298151.md - Parcel 303511: 1,463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303511.md - Parcel 295880: 1,117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295880.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshane 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. - 21 Jan 2025, Offaly County Council 2560015: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A 1.5 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE, NEW ROOF OVER EXISTING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560015/0 - 15 Mar 2021, Offaly County Council 21114: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A 3 BAY DOUBLE SLATTED CATTLE SHED, UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21114/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshane. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshane. ## 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 Ballyshane, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshane. - 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/ballyshane-180207.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyshane-180207.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyshane-180207.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyshane 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) - Ballyloughan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyloughan.md - Camus: https://everytownland.com/offaly/camus.md - Clonony More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonony-more.md - Galros: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros.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/ballyshane-180207 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballyshane-180207