Derrynagall or Ballydaly
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Doire na nGall nó Baile Uí Dhálaigh
Parcel 2389141
- Area
- 1,918 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 210 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Derrynagall or Ballydaly
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Jan 2021Conditional
A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF, AND A 40 YEAR OPERATION AND SUBSEQUENT DECOMMISSIONING OF, A DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A 52.75 HECTARE SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION (0.95 HECTARES) GIVING A TOTAL COMBINED AREA FOR BOTH THE SOLAR FARM, BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION OF 53.7 HECTARES. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF A SERIES OF GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS MOUNTED ON STEEL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING ON SITE, 18 NO. ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMATION ENCLOSURES, 68 NO. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE UNITS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, UNDERGROUND CABLING, INVERTERS, CCTV POLES AND CAMERAS, DEER TYPE SECURITY FENCING, PALISADE FENCING, ACCESS TRACKS, LANDSCAPING AND BIODIVERSITY MEASURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF GENERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY AT THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN. THE PROPOSED 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION WILL CONSIST OF UNDERGROUND; 13 JOINT BAYS, 13 LINK BOXES AND 13 COMMUNICATIONS CHAMBERS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID ROUTE PASSES UNDERNEATH THE WOOD OF O BRIDGE A PROTECTED STRUCTURE ON THE GRAND CANAL. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN, CO. OFFALY. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION IS TO BE INSTALLED ENTIRELY UNDER PUBLIC ROADS FROM THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AT DERRIES AND LACKAN TOWNLANDS TO THORNSBERRY 110KV ESB SUBSTATION, WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES, KILMURRY, DERRYGROGAN LITTLE, DERRYGROGAN BIG, WOOD OF O, CORNDARRAGH, DERRYNAGALL OR BALLYDALY, ARDAN AND PUTTAGHAN, CO. OFFALY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Offaly County Council, 218
14 Feb 2020Conditional
GAMES ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND RETENTION OF CLOSING IN OF PORCH TO FORM SUNROOM TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2043
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2024 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 188 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynagall or Ballydaly, from 7 m² to 147,524 m² (14.75 ha, 36.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
No zone of a development plan covers Derrynagall or Ballydaly 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jun 2026N/a
A 31.34 metre length of 110kV Overhead Electricity Line connecting a Battery Energy Storage System to the Thornsberry 110kV substation
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660301
28 May 2026N/a
A 31.34 metre length of 110kV Overhead Electricity Line connecting a Battery Energy Storage System to Thornsberry 110kV substation
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660288
5 May 2026N/a
A 10 year planning permission on a site of approximately 4.9 hectares is sought. The development will consist of: A revised site design for a Battery Energy Storage System facility permitted under Ref No. 24/60002, incorporating between 28 no. and 112 no. battery containers with a difference in height of between 4m?and?5.5m. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) units, transformers, inverters and underground cabling will also be provided. An associated electrical compound comprising: - 1 no. A High Voltage electrical yard; - 1 no. Operational and welfare building (29.7 sq m); - 1 no. Storage building (91.0 sq m); - 1 No. Switchgear Building (315 sq m); - An 18m high AGL lightening protection mast; and - An auxiliary power supply, transformer, circuit breaker, disconnector, earth switch and ancillary grid equipment. Access will be provided using an existing access track off the L1024 which will be widened on a temporary basis to allow for the delivery of abnormal loads during the construction stage. A new secondary access track connecting to the L1024 will also be provided. All ancillary site development works and infrastructure necessary to facilitate the development including the provision of a temporary construction compound, diesel generator, palisade fencing, landscaping and earth bunding, CCTV security monitoring system, surface water drainage, potable water supply, lighting and signage. Fire safety provisions which will include 2 no. fire water storage tanks; and General enabling works including boundary treatment. Certain details of the proposed development are unconfirmed in the planning application, and an opinion on unconfirmed details from Offaly County Council pursuant to Section 32H(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) accompanies this planning application. The details unconfirmed in this application are battery height and number of battery containers. The range of parameters under which the battery storage will fall are specified on this site notice and in the design flexibility opinion that accompanies this application
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660248
22 Dec 2025N/a
a 10 year planning permission for development at Derrynagall or Ballydaly, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, on a site of approximately 4.9 hectares. The development will consist of: • A revised site design for a Battery Energy Storage System facility permitted under Ref No. 24/60002, incorporating between 28 no. and 112 no. battery containers with a difference in height of between 4m and 5.5m . HVAC units, transformers, inverters, underground cabling and associated control rooms will also be provided. • An associated electrical compound comprising : o 1 no. A High Voltage electrical yard; o 1 no. Operational and welfare building (29.7 sq m); o 1 no. Storage building (91.0 sq m); o An 18m high AGL lightening protection mast; and o An auxiliary power supply, transformer, circuit breaker, disconnector, earth switch and ancillary grid equipment. • Access will be provided using an existing access track off the L1024 which will be widened on a temporary basis to allow for the delivery of abnormal loads during the construction stage. A new secondary access track connecting to the L1024 will also be provided. • All ancillary site development works and infrastructure necessary to facilitate the development including the provision of a temporary construction compound, palisade fencing, landscaping and earth bunding, CCTV security monitoring system, surface water drainage, potable water supply, lighting and signage. • Fire safety provisions which will include 2 no. fire water storage tanks; and • General enabling works including boundary treatment . Certain details of the proposed development are unconfirmed in the planning application, and an opinion on unconfirmed details from Offaly County Council pursuant to Section 32H(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) accompanies this planning application. The details unconfirmed in this application are battery height and number of battery containers. The range of parameters under which the battery storage will fall are specified on this site notice and in the design flexibility opinion that accompanies this application
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560681
12 Jan 2024Conditional
EXISTING STORAGE SHED
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 245
4 Jan 2024Conditional
a 10 year planning permission. The development will consist of a grid system services facility within a total site area of 3.5 hectares. The proposed development will have a projected life span of 30 years. The development will include 1 no. single storey electrical substation building, 1 no. customer substation control and switch rooms, up to 20 no. electrical inverter/transformer station modules mounted on concrete plinths, up to 80 no. containerised battery blocks on concrete support structures and associated heating, ventilation and air conditioning units (HVAC units), access tracks and upgraded site entrance, associated electrical cabling and ducting, security gates and perimeter security fencing up to 2.6m palisade fencing, CCTV security monitoring system, landscaping works and all associated ancillary infrastructure.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460002
18 Dec 2023N/a
a 10 year planning permission. The development will consist of a grid system services facility within a total site area of 3.5 hectares. The proposed development will have a projected life span of 30 years. The development will include 1 no. single storey electrical substation building, 1 no. customer substation control and switch rooms, up to 20 no. electrical inverter/transformer station modules mounted on concrete plinths, up to 80 no. containerised battery blocks on concrete support structures and associated heating, ventilation and air conditioning units (HVAC units), access tracks and upgraded site entrance, associated electrical cabling and ducting, security gates and perimeter security fencing up to 2.6m palisade fencing, CCTV security monitoring system, landscaping works and all associated ancillary infrastructure
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360239
7 Dec 2023Conditional
to amend previously approved planning application 23/27 to include changes to the floor plan and elevations of the dormer style dwelling and all assoc site works. "
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360221
23 Jun 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23298
7 Jun 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 23263
30 Jan 2023Conditional
DORMER STYLE DWELLING, GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2327
21 Dec 2022N/a
DORMER STYLE DWELLING, GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOC SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22658
29 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CARPORT, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21591
11 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21294
25 Mar 2021Conditional
DOMESTIC SHED/GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21154
15 Jan 2021Conditional
A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF, AND A 40 YEAR OPERATION AND SUBSEQUENT DECOMMISSIONING OF, A DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A 52.75 HECTARE SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION (0.95 HECTARES) GIVING A TOTAL COMBINED AREA FOR BOTH THE SOLAR FARM, BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION OF 53.7 HECTARES. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF A SERIES OF GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS MOUNTED ON STEEL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION BUILDING ON SITE, 18 NO. ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMATION ENCLOSURES, 68 NO. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE UNITS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, UNDERGROUND CABLING, INVERTERS, CCTV POLES AND CAMERAS, DEER TYPE SECURITY FENCING, PALISADE FENCING, ACCESS TRACKS, LANDSCAPING AND BIODIVERSITY MEASURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF GENERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY AT THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN. THE PROPOSED 9.32 KILOMETRE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION WILL CONSIST OF UNDERGROUND; 13 JOINT BAYS, 13 LINK BOXES AND 13 COMMUNICATIONS CHAMBERS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID ROUTE PASSES UNDERNEATH THE WOOD OF O BRIDGE A PROTECTED STRUCTURE ON THE GRAND CANAL. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES AND LACKAN, CO. OFFALY. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY GRID CONNECTION IS TO BE INSTALLED ENTIRELY UNDER PUBLIC ROADS FROM THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM AT DERRIES AND LACKAN TOWNLANDS TO THORNSBERRY 110KV ESB SUBSTATION, WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRIES, KILMURRY, DERRYGROGAN LITTLE, DERRYGROGAN BIG, WOOD OF O, CORNDARRAGH, DERRYNAGALL OR BALLYDALY, ARDAN AND PUTTAGHAN, CO. OFFALY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Offaly County Council, 218
14 Feb 2020Conditional
GAMES ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND RETENTION OF CLOSING IN OF PORCH TO FORM SUNROOM TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2043
16 Jul 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION. THE PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION IS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18307
3 Jul 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION. THE PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION IS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18287
16 Apr 2018Conditional
A GRID SYSTEM SERVICES FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA OF 0.84 HECTARES, TO INCLUDE 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION BUILDING, 1 NO. CUSTOMER SWITCHGEAR CONTAINER, 17 NO. 2MW ELECTRICAL INVERTER/TRANSFORMER STATION MODULES (SKIDS), 10 NO. CONTAINERISED BATTERY STORAGE MODULES ON CONCRETE SUPPORT STRUCTURES, 40 NO. HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING UNITS (HVAC UNITS), ACCESS TRACKS AND UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL CABLING AND DUCTING, SECURITY GATES AND PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, CCTV SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM, LANDSCAPING WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18167
28 Mar 2018N/a
A GRID SYSTEM SERVICES FACILITY WITHIN A TOTAL SITE AREA OF UP TO 0.84 HECTARES, TO INCLUDE 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION BUILDING, 1 NO. CUSTOMER SWITCHGEAR, ELECTRICAL INVERTER/TRANSFORMER STATION MODULES, CONTAINERISED BATTERY STORAGE MODULES ON CONCRETE SUPPORT STRUCTURES, HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING UNITS (HVAC UNITS), ACCESS TRACKS AND UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL CABLING AND DUCTING, SECURITY GATES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, CCTV SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM AND LANDSCAPING WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18145
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 Derrynagall or Ballydaly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynagall or Ballydaly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrynagall or Ballydaly.
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1995 (ZIP).
- 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 Derrynagall or Ballydaly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynagall or Ballydaly · Doire na nGall nó Baile Uí Dhálaigh
- Area
- 1,880,379 m² (188.04 ha, 464.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Tinnycross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinnycross electoral division: 467 people in 153 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardan, Ballycosney, Ballynasrah or Tinnycross, Cappancur, Corndarragh, Puttaghan, Rosnagowloge or Tirinchinan
- Placenames
- Derrynagall or Ballydaly 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.