Road

216 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Road, from 7 m² to 133,566 m² (13.36 ha, 33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 151 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  THE UPGRADING AND EXTENDING OF EXISTING SPORTS FACILITY. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A NEW CLUBHOUSE CONTAINING 4 NUMBER DRESSING ROOMS AND A REFEREE DRESSING ROOM ALL WITH SHOWER AND W.C FACILITIES, AN OPEN PLAN GYM AND GYM STUDIO AREA, A PLANT ROOM, A MAIN RECEPTION AREA, A KITCHEN/FOOD PREP-AREA, A VIEWING GALLARY/MEETING ROOM, STORAGE ROOMS AND ASSOCIATED TOILETS AND SHOWER ROOMS. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR: (A) 1 NUMBER FULL SIZED ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH AND ASSOCIATED PITCH LIGHTING, TO INSTALL VARIOUS EXTERNAL RACING TRACKS AND EXERCISE STATIONS, A TARMACADAM FINISHED EXERCISE WALKING TRACK AND A SECURE CHILDREN PLAY AREA, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED LOW LEVEL LIGHTING. ( B ) TO CONSTRUCT NEW CAR AND BUS PARKING FACILITIES WITH EMERGENCY OVERFLOW CAPACITY AND WITH ASSOCIATED LOW LEVEL LIGHTING, TO UPGRADE EXISTING PARKING FACILITIES, TO CREATE A NEW ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC ROAD WITH RECESSED ENTRANCE PIERS AND GATES, TO ALTER AND UPGRADE EXISTING SITE BOUNDARIES AND TO INSTALL A NEW FOUL SEWER TERTIARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH COCO FILTERS AND INFILTRATION BEDS, PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO INSTALL A RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM, TO UPGRADE AND CONNECT TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560685

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  LOG CABIN/ DOMESTIC STORE/ HOME OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2596

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  The development consists of a domestic garage/ fuel store and any associated works that were part of this development.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460332

• 10 Jul 2024Conditional

  (A) Planning permission for 20 no. dwellings consisting of (i) Type A - 2 no. semi-detached 4-bed two-storey type houses (ii) Type B - 12 no. semi-detached 3-bed two-storey type houses (iii) Type C – 1 no. semi-detached 2-bed two-storey type house (iv) Type D - 1 no. semi-detached 2-bed single storey type house (v) Two-storey maisonette type building containing 2 no. 2-bed ground floor dwellings and 2 no. 2-bed first floor dwellings each with ground floor access. (B) Planning permission for foul and surface water drainage works and all associated ancillary siteworks to facilitate this development including the upgrade of the existing agricultural entrance to a vehicular entrance and provision of access roadway, footpaths and public lighting.

  Permission, 20 homes · Offaly County Council, 2460266

• 1 Jul 2024N/a

  (A) 20 no. dwellings consisting of (i) Type A - 2 no. semi-detached 4-bed two-storey type houses (ii) Type B - 12 no. semi-detached 3-bed two-storey type houses (iii) Type C – 1 no. semi-detached 2-bed two-storey type house (iv) Type D - 1 no. semi-detached 2-bed single storey type house (v) Two-storey maisonette type building containing 2 no. 2-bed ground floor dwellings and 2 no. 2-bed first floor dwellings each with ground floor access. (B) Planning permission for foul and surface water drainage works and all associated ancillary siteworks to facilitate this development including the upgrade of the existing agricultural entrance to a vehicular entrance and provision of access roadway, footpaths and public lighting

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460243

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  (A) NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) DEMOLISH EXISTING FUEL SHED (F) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2461

• 29 Aug 2022N/a

  5 INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS CONSISTING OF 17 NO. TWO-STOREY 3-BEDROOM TERRACE HOUSES, NEW VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING, NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 17 homes · Offaly County Council, 22441

• 15 Aug 2022N/a

  5 INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS CONSISTING OF 17 NO. TWO-STOREY 3-BEDROOM TERRACE HOUSES, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING, NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 22409

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 22336

• 22 Jun 2022N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22313

• 8 Jun 2022N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22284

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FLAT-ROOFED EXTENSION AND STORAGE SHEDS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE & HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21331

• 22 Jun 2020N/a

  (A) 2 NO. DETACHED 4-BEDROOM HOUSES, (B) 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED 4-BEDROOM HOUSES (C) 8 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE 3 BEDROOM HOUSES, (D) NEW VECHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 12 homes · Offaly County Council, 20230

• 11 May 2020N/a

  (A) 2 NO. DETACHED 4-BEDROOM HOUSES, (B) 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED 4-BEDROOM HOUSES (C) 8 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE 3-BEDROOM HOUSES, (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20172

• 12 Nov 2019Refused

  THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19528

• 7 Feb 2019N/a

  (A) 8 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE TERRACE DWELLING HOUSES, (B) 12 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES, (C) NEW CAR PARKING(D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 20 homes · Offaly County Council, 1945

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY LOUNGE / TOILETS/ FUNCTION ROOM TO SIDE AND FRONT OF EXISTING BUILDING. (2) ALTERATIONS AND RESTORATION OF SOUTH AND WEST ELEVATIONS - INCLUDING RE-LOCATION OF LADIES AND GENTS TOILETS. (3) BUILDING 3 NO - THREE BEDROOM TWO STOREY DETACHED PRIVATE DWELLINGS. (4) RE-ALIGNMENT OF EXISTING CAR PARK TO ACCOMMODATE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT - TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 18328

• 21 Mar 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 24 TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING AND LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 24 homes · Offaly County Council, 18130

• 30 Jan 2018N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF 24 TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING AND LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 24 homes · Offaly County Council, 1833

• 22 Dec 2017N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF 24 TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, CAR PARKING AND LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17519

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED AS PART OF PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NUMBER PL2/09/534 (PERIOD EXTENDED BY EX/15035), NEW CONNECTIONS TO SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17406

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  (A) A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, HANDLING & DRAFTING AREA AND WAITING YARD WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK, (B) A NEW DAIRY WITH ANCILLARY ROOMS, (C) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AND WATER STORAGE TANK, (D) AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK CUBICLE AND STRAW BEDDING SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK (E) A SILAGE SLAB AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17407

• 26 Sept 2017N/a

  (A) A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, HANDLING & DRAFTING AREA AND WAITING YARD WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK, (B) A NEW DAIRY WITH ANCILLARY ROOMS, (C) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AND WATER STORAGE TANK, (D) AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK CUBICLE AND STRAW BEDDING SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK (E) A SILAGE SLAB AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17369

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 Road.

Recorded monuments

• OF011-056 Cross - Wayside cross (present location)
  Description

  Fragment of shaft of late-medieval cross situated outside Parochial house in Rhode and said to have come from Coolcor (OF004-011004-) (Comerford 1883, 324). Rectangular shaped shaft (H 0.95m, W 0.25m x 0.2m) with crucifixion on front, Blessed Virgin and child at back, St Patrick on one side and St Francis with inscription below on other. Portion of late medieval wayside cross (H 1m; T 0.4m) located in the front garden of the parochial house in Rhode Village. According to the priest this cross came from the monastic site of Coolcor (OF004-011----) which is now destroyed. The cross is described by Comerford (1883, 324) as having four sculpted figures in relief one on each face. These figures according to Comerford are (1) the Crucifixion; (2):the blessed Virgin; (3) a Bishop (maybe St Patrick); (4) a monk (maybe St Francis). Below one of the Bishops there is an inscription in relief written in English which reads 'Blessed are the weak in Spirit'. According to the local priest there was a hole on top of the shaft of the cross with a metal spike attached, this was probably the method for attaching another piece onto the cross. This cross appears to belong to the 16th/17th-century. Cross referenced with OF004-011004-. 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint Peter's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1816 and renovated 1859. Set within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with ridge cresting and coping. Tooled stone cross to east gable of church. Roughcast render to walls with cut stone string course and quoins. Pointed-arched window openings with tooled limestone surrounds and sills and Y-traceried timber windows. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround and pointed-arched window above. Double timber panelled door with water font to side. Date plaque to front of church. Timber pews and altar furniture to interior. Vestry to north of church. Recumbent grave marker and statue in churchyard. Set within its own grounds, with random coursed rubble stone wall to front having channeled rendered gate piers with triangular capping. Cast-iron railings and double gates.

• Surgery/clinic, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former dispensary, built c.1860, now used as a house. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door-opening with replacement uPVC door. Stone outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Set within its own grounds and bounded by random coursed limestone wall to front with rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1870, with two-storey return to rear. Now used as a private house. Set back from road within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth render to walls with quoins. Replacement aluminum windows with tooled sills and rendered surround. Glazed porch added to entrance, round-headed door opening with block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and glazed fanlight. Outbuildings to rear site. Site bounded by timber fencing and accessed through rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Killure Lodge, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c.1820, with two-storey extension to rear. Set within its own grounds. Modern hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Modern skylights to rear of roof. Round-headed door opening with timber fanlight and timber panelled door. Accessed by stone steps with cast-iron bootscrapers. Stone outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to rear and side of house. Boundary timber fence to front of site.

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 high, 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 Road.

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

Name

Road · Ród

Area

711,966 m² (71.2 ha, 175.93 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyburly, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballyburly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyburly electoral division: 1,388 people in 478 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonin, Laurencetown, Rathcobican, Rathmoyle, Toberdaly

Placenames

Road 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.