Ballinlough

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 151 m² to 70,624 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlough 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.

• 9 Jun 2026Conditional

  construct new dwelling house , domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660352

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  construct a dormer style dwelling house, attached car port and domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460541

• 13 Sept 2024N/a

  construct a dormer style dwelling house, attached car port and domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460529

• 24 Aug 2021N/a

  construct a 2 storey with a single storey element dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21593

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area, new borehole well, new vehicular site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19285

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  (a) construct two-storey dwellinghouse, garage,entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works and (b) RETENTION permission to retain altered ground levels

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17666

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 Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinlough.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballinlough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballinlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

542,679 m² (54.27 ha, 134.1 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Ballyroan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,193 people lived in 379 households in the Ballyroan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaddock, Ballyroan, Dooary, Raheenabrogue, Rathmoyle, Redhills

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.