Ballyvlin
Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Bhilín
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 29,089 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvlin, from 171 m² to 96,918 m² (9.69 ha, 23.95 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2025N/a
the construction of a warehouse/storage unit to include staff offices and facilities, site entrance/exit, car parking, connection to public services, and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560672
9 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a new warehouse /storage unit, with offices ,storage and staff facilities, car parking ,access and link to adjoining site , fencing, landscaping and associated works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560116
1 Sept 2023Conditional
Construction of the following; a) two warehouse/storage units. one with a 2 storey annex building comprising offices and staff facilities b) a single storey link building to form a loading bay to serve both new units c)car parking, access and fencing and assocaited works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360094
3 Jul 2023N/a
FOR (A) TWO WAREHOUSE/ STORAGE UNITS, ONE WITH A 2 STOREY ANNEX BUILDING COMPRISING OFFICES AND STAFF FACILITIES; (B) A SINGLE STOREY LINK BUILDING TO FORM A LOADING BAY TO SERVE BOTH NEW UNITS; (C) CAR PARKING, ACCESS AND FENCING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23318
14 Jun 2023N/a
FOR (A) TWO WAREHOUSE/ STORAGE UNITS, ONE WITH A 2 STOREY ANNEX BUILDING COMPRISING OFFICES AND STAFF FACILITIES; (B) A SINGLE STOREY LINK BUILDING TO FORM A LOADING BAY TO SERVE BOTH NEW UNITS; (C) CAR PARKING, ACCESS AND FENCING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 23283
31 Aug 2022Refused
(A) TWO WAREHOUSE/STORAGE UNITS, ONE WITH A 2 STOREY ANNEX BUILDING COMPRISING OFFICES AND STAFF FACILITIES (B) A SINGLE STOREY LINK BUILDING TO FORM A LOADING BAY TO SERVE BOTH NEW UNITS (C) CAR PARKING, ACCESS AND FENCING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22452
18 Aug 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING; A) TWO WAREHOUSE /STORAGE UNITS, ONE WITH A 2 STOREY ANNEX BUILDING COMPRISING OFFICES AND STAFF FACILITIES, B) A SINGLE STOREY LINK BUILDING TO FORM A LOADING BAY TO SERVE BOTH NEW UNITS, C) CAR PARKING , ACCESS AND FENCING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22422
30 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 1575 SQ.M LIGHT INDUSTRIAL/STORAGE UNIT WITH OFFICES & STAFF FACILITIES. DEVELOPMENT IS TO INCLUDE TWO NEW ENTRANCES ONTO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, SIGNAGE TO BUILDING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21400
24 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMERCIAL/LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR FURNITURE ASSEMBLY/STORAGE INCLUDING CAR PARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21318
11 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT WITH CAR PARKING, FENCING, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20170
21 Apr 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT WITH CAR PARKING, FENCING, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20145
3 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT, WITH OFFICES, STAFF FACILITIES, CAR PARKING, FENCING, LANDSCAPING AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 19575
12 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT, WITH CAR PARKING, FENCING, LANDSCAPING AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18393
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvlin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyvlin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvlin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Ballyvlin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyvlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvlin · Baile Bhilín
- Area
- 571,817 m² (57.18 ha, 141.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Ferbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaboy, Ballylin, Derrica Beg, Glebe, Keeloge, Rosfaraghan
- Placenames
- Ballyvlin 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.