Ballytoran

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytoran, from 776 m² to 247,712 m² (24.77 ha, 61.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballytoran 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.

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  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24166

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 Ballytoran.

Recorded monuments

• OF041-006 House - 17th century
  Description

  Early seventeenth century house depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a T-plan house with a range of buildings annotated 'Old Distillery' immediately to NE of house. Vernacular thatched house now with a corrugated roof was described by O'Reilly (2004, 57) as; 'a large farmhouse at Ballytoran townland, Kilcomin, that is certainly early seventeenth century. It was first noted by Maurice Craig in 1973. It has four bays (and possibly has a blocked fifth bay) and is two-storeyed. It has stout chimney-stacks with diagonally set chimneys typical of the period. It was thatched until recent decades when the straw was removed and the roof covered in corrugated iron but retains a sod under-thatch. It is the most intact early building in the county with surviving evidence of its thatched roof'. The house was described by Craig (1973) as 'an eighteenth century farmhouse, gable-ended with a façade of four bays and two storeys'. This house known locally as 'Ballytoran House' was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Detached four-bay two-storey former thatched miller's house, built c.1640, with additional bay blocked up and ruined return with remains of a hearth to rear. Entrance porch added c.1970, single-storey to rear. Single-storey lean-to extension to north-west facing side gable wall. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with sod beneath and rendered chimneystacks set diagonally. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening to porch. This former miller's house is a valuable example of a seventeenth-century house and displays many of the architectural motifs of a house from that period including its single pile form, steeply pitched roof, thick walls, diagonal chimneystacks and small window openings. The roof is now covered with corrugated-iron sheet but the present owner had uncovered the remains of sods and thatch to the roof, conclusive evidence that this substantial early house was once thatched. The wide central staircase is an impressive interior feature. This house together with the mill and outbuildings to the north and east form an interesting group of related structures' (NIAH Reg. No. 14941007; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/14941007/ballytoran-house-ballytoran-kilcomin-offaly). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 5 October 2022

Architectural heritage

• Distillery, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay three-storey distillery, built c.1830, with auxiliary buildings. Remnants of pitched slate roof. Coursed rubbles limestone walls with stepped yellow brick eaves course. Segmental-headed window openings with yellow brick arches. Segmental-headed carriage arch openings with yellow brick arches and limestone reveals. Ruin of auxiliary mill buildings to north-west with limestone walls and segmental-headed window openings with red brick arches and ancillary single-storey structures abutting.

• Worker's house, 1620–1660 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1640, formerly thatched with additional bay blocked up and ruined return with remains of a hearth to rear. Entrance porch added c.1970, single-storey to rear. Single-storey lean-to extension to north-west facing side gable wall. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with sod beneath and rendered chimneystacks set diagonally. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening to porch.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballytoran.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballytoran · Baile an Torainn

Area

715,579 m² (71.56 ha, 176.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barna electoral division: 170 people in 62 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clucka North, Clucka South, Coldblow, Glasshouse, Kilcomin, Rusheen

Placenames

Ballytoran 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.