Ballynakill

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 40 m² to 130,943 m² (13.09 ha, 32.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community-Educational-Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential 2 (New/proposed residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space/Amenity (Active open space)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Dec 2025Refused

  i) demolsh the existing public house & private residence and all rear extensions. ii) Demolish the derelict outbuilding to the rear of the site. iii) construct a two-storey, 3 no. bed dwelling to the front of the site iv) construct two, 4 no. bed dwelling houses to the rear of the site. v) repair and construction of all boundary walls vi) Construct a new shared access road, landscape, parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560825

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  I Thomas O’Rourke, C/o Daniel Keane, RIAI (Arch Tech), 20 Church St., Portlaoise, Co. Laois, intend to apply for Permission for development at The Clonaslee Inn, Main Street, Clonaslee, Co. Laois. The Development will consist of i) The demolition of the existing public house & private residence and all rear extensions. ii) The Demolition of the derelict outbuilding to the rear of the site. iii) The construction of a two-storey, 3 no. bed dwelling to the front of the site iv) The construction of two, 4 no. bed dwelling houses to the rear of the site. v) The repair and construction of all boundary walls vi) Construction of a new shared access road, landscape, parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560811

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  construct a two storey single-family dwelling, alterations to the existing boundary wall and creation of a new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560729

• 3 Nov 2025N/a

  construct a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560721

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560722

• 28 Oct 2025N/a

  Construct a two storey single-family dwelling, alterations to the existing boundary wall and creation of a new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560705

• 23 Oct 2025N/a

  construct a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560699

• 28 Oct 2020N/a

  proposed glamping site to include: no 5 glamping pod units with en-suites, no. 2 communal dock blocks shower and sanitary block, coffee dock, communal area, bicycle storage racks, car park and all associated services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20557

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• LA002-011 House - fortified house
  Description

  Ivy-covered roughly coursed rubble and limestone building (17.90m E-W, c. 22m N-S, wall T 0.73m), L-shaped with projections at three of its angles, Jacobean chimney stacks similar to Castle Cuffe (LA002-008----). Probably an early seventeenth- century fortified house. According to O'Hanlon this castle was built in 1680 by Colonel Dunne (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 268). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynakill, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1971 (ZIP).

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 Ballynakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Coille

Area

527,457 m² (52.75 ha, 130.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Clonaslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfarrell, Brockagh, Bunastick, Clonaslee, Curraghnadeige, Derrylinneen, Graigue

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.