Ballyheyland
Ballyheyland is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcolmanbane, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Aoláin.
Parcel 246934
- Area
- 200,457 m² (20.05 ha, 49.53 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 407 m².
- 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
- Ballyheyland
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 220 ha
- 544 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,917 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheyland, from 65 m² to 254,227 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyheyland 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
12 Jan 2026Unconditional
extend duration on Planning Ref. 20/125
Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 263
22 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) retain single storey dwelling house (2) All associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560887
19 Dec 2025N/a
(1) retain single storey dwelling house, (2) All associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2560877
28 Feb 2024Conditional
Retain Extension to side of dwellinghouse and domestic garage to rear of dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460092
27 Feb 2024N/a
Retain extension to side of dwellinghouse and domestic garage to rear of dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2460089
17 Jun 2022Conditional
construct new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22369
30 May 2022N/a
construct dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 22333
17 May 2021Conditional
retention permission foe amendments of site boundaries in replation to Planning Ref. No. 05368
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21335
21 Jul 2020Conditional
construct a dormer dwelling house with attached car port, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance and all necessary and ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20377
9 Mar 2020Conditional
construct a dormer style dwelling house, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20125
21 Dec 2018Conditional
retain 3 no. agricultural buildings for storage of ancillary dry goods and agricultural machinery, to demolish agricultural structures to include slatted livestock housing, cubicle livestock housing and straw bedded livestock housing and unroofed dungstead, construct agricultural building to include cubicle livestock housing and roofed collecting yard along with slatted slurry storage tanks and the extending of existing slatted slurry storage tank along with associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18788
6 Jan 2017Conditional
construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 179
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 Ballyheyland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheyland.
Architectural heritage
- Yellow House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey late-Georgian house, c. 1825, with three-bay range to right and return to rear. Group of detached single- and two-storey stable buildings to site. Now in commercial use.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyheyland, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyheyland.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyheyland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyheyland · Baile Uí Aoláin
- Area
- 2,199,755 m² (219.98 ha, 543.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Cullenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 151 people lived in 50 households in the Cullenagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygormill South, Ballyknockan, Baunree, Cremorgan, Cullenagh, Kilvahan, Lamberton Demesne, Pass
- Placenames
- Ballyheyland 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.