Ballywilliam

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywilliam, from 148 m² to 285,545 m² (28.55 ha, 70.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballywilliam 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  alterations to previously granted permission Ref: 24/60469. alterations include moving the location of the entrance to the site, revised material finishes to elevations and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660345

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  New Dwelling House, New Entrance, New Septic Tank with Percolation Area and all associated Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460469

• 18 Nov 2024N/a

  New Dwelling House, New Entrance, New Septic Tank with Percolation Area and all associated Site Works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460460

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  New Dwelling House, New Entrance, New Septic Tank with Percolation Area and all associated Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460408

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 Ballywilliam.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low N-S ridge in upland area. Circular area (diam 40m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; ext. H varies 2.30m - 3.5m; int. H varies 1m - 2m) and external fosse (Wth 3m) which is totally destroyed at SE with a causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at E. There is no surface evidence for an outer bank. The interior of the site slopes from W to E. 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

• OF045-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. Roughly circular area (diam 27m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.7m) with entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. No other features visible. 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

• OF045-048 Stone head (present location)
  Description

  Small sandstone carved head (H 0.2m; Wth 0.18m) with almond-shaped eyes, pointed angular nose and slit mouth which has been incorporated into a concrete block boundary wall of a modern bungalow. This head is locally believed to have come from the medieval church (OF039-055----) at Roscomroe (pers. comm. Paddy Murray). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 June 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywilliam.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballywilliam.

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 Ballywilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballywilliam · Baile Liam

Area

772,154 m² (77.22 ha, 190.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adruel, Ballyclery, Boultry, Clonbrennan, Clonlisk, Keeloge, Newtown, Rutland

Placenames

Ballywilliam 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.