# Ballytoran, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcomin, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Torainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 715,579 m² (71.56 ha, 176.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,149 m² (1.01 ha, 2.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcomin, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilcomin.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Barna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 170 people lived in 62 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% 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/41777 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180214 - Centre: latitude 52.963342, longitude -7.954209 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytoran, from 776 m² to 247,712 m² (24.77 ha, 61.21 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 275156: 247,712 m² (24.77 ha, 61.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275156.md - Parcel 293664: 234,302 m² (23.43 ha, 57.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293664.md - Parcel 291277: 87,607 m² (8.76 ha, 21.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291277.md - Parcel 297876: 47,779 m² (4.78 ha, 11.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297876.md - Parcel 280125: 19,321 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280125.md - Parcel 307558: 13,438 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307558.md - Parcel 283954: 11,805 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283954.md - Parcel 283972: 10,492 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283972.md - Parcel 301740: 10,389 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301740.md - Parcel 286732: 9,910 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286732.md - Parcel 295159: 5,749 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295159.md - Parcel 288417: 4,253 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288417.md - Parcel 307245: 4,018 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307245.md - Parcel 271662: 3,881 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271662.md - Parcel 269801: 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269801.md - Parcel 306805: 1,384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306805.md - Parcel 2462559: 880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462559.md - Parcel 313133: 776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313133.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 15 Nov 2024, Offaly County Council 24166: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24166/0 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 Ballytoran. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF041-006: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF041-006----. 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 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) - Distillery, 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 14941006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14941006. 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, registry number 14941007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14941007. 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. ## 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 Ballytoran, 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. - 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, 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/ballytoran.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballytoran.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballytoran.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballytoran 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) - Clucka North: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clucka-north.md - Clucka South: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clucka-south.md - Coldblow: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coldblow-180458.md - Glasshouse: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glasshouse-180699.md - Kilcomin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcomin.md - Rusheen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rusheen.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/ballytoran - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballytoran