Kilballyskea

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilballyskea, from 210 m² to 581,968 m² (58.2 ha, 143.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Kilballyskea 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  1) the construction of a walled silage base with aprons, 2) the extension of an existing agricultural structure, to provide livestock housing with underground effluent storage tank and dry bedded area, 3) the extension of an existing agricultural structure to provide calving area, 4) extension of yard area and relocation of internal farm roadway and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660411

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  AN EXTENSION TO A LIVESTOCK SHED, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER FILE REF: 18591, AS CONSTRUCTED AND THE RETENTION OF A GENERAL STORE FOR MACHINERY AND FARM SUPPLIES, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2226

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE, TO INCLUDE, A BUILDING CONTAINING MILKING PARLOUR/DAIRY/SERVICE ROOMS WITH ANCHILLARY INSTALLATIONS, INCLUDING A MILK SILO, FEED SILO, WASH WATER STORAGE TANK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ASSOCIATED COLLECTING AND HANDLING YARDS WITH A SOIL WATER COLLECTION TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2227

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  AN EXISTING UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK AND FLOW CHANNEL AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO ERECT SHED FOR HOUSING LIVESTOCK, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18591

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount St.Joseph Woods 000913

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilballyskea.

Architectural heritage

• Kilballyskea House, country house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with return and extensions to rear. Walled gardens to south-west and outbuildings to rear and south-east, which were part of an earlier Kilballyskea House and date to the before the 1830s. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Paired timber brackets to eaves. Tooled limestone plinth, tooled limestone trefoil vents and ruled-and-lined render to walls with tooled limestone quoins. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills and moulded rendered surrounds. Canted bay to north elevation. Segmental-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled doors, flanked by sidelights, surmounted by fanlight, with moulded render surround. Tooled limestone threshold and concrete steps to entrance. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with tooled limestone block-and-start surround and replacement timber doors. Random coursed limestone surrounds to door openings containing timber battened doors. Slate and timber canopy supported on cast-iron columns abuts house to south-west. Random coursed stone outbuilding to south-east with four yellow brick carriage arches. Walled garden to south-west with random coursed stone walls with corner tower to north-west with stone steps leading to first floor. Segmental-headed entrance gives access to garden with cut stone voussoirs and wrought-iron gates. Stone wall to south of house with random coursed gate piers giving access to southern yard. Main entrance with modern stone gate piers and gates to north of house.

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 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 Kilballyskea.

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

Name

Kilballyskea · Coill Bhéal Átha Sceach

Area

2,922,640 m² (292.26 ha, 722.2 acres)

Civil parish

Shinrone, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Shinrone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shinrone electoral division: 1,041 people in 391 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilleen, Clyduff, Keeloge, Magherareagh, Milltown, Scorduff, Shinrone

Placenames

Kilballyskea 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.