Ballynahown

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahown, from 79 m² to 364,716 m² (36.47 ha, 90.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballynahown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballynahown 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Clonaslee Eskers and Derry Bog SAC 000859
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonaslee Eskers And Derry Bog 000859

Recorded monuments

• LA002-013001 Church
  Description

  In low-lying area. Undifferentiated church within an almost circular graveyard (int. diam. 48m) which is delimited by a stone wall. The church (max. dims. c. 18.70m E-W, 8m N-S, wall T 0.8m) is built of rubble and sandstone, and was recently partially rebuilt with W wall in wrong position. Featureless, but some large sandstone quoins remain in place in NE and SE angles. Quernstone-base (diam 0.43m) with small central hole lies on wall of graveyard. Early Christian cross-slabs originally from here have been moved to Clonaslee church (LA002-012). Situated on W facing slope of rising ground in upland area with nearby stream 45m to the E of the graveyard (LA002-013002-). Poorly preserved church located in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard defined by a sandstone wall (H 1.3m; wall T 0.45m). Low earth and stone bank (Top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) with traces of a outer fosse visible at E only; this bank runs out from the base of the graveyard wall at SE and forms a circular boundary to the E of the upstanding graveyard wall. This bank appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary or may be remains of a small ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004-). This bank is located at a distance of 28m from the outer face of the graveyard wall at E. Curving section of graveyard wall to N of church may be on line of earlier enclosure (approx. diam. 75m). Only the E gable of the church (int. dims. N-S 6.1m; 13.5m E-W; wall T 1m) stands to near full height with the S wall and E end of the N wall standing up to 1m high, only the lower wall foundations of the W wall survive. Evidence of small aumbry off centre to S in E wall with destroyed E window in centre of E gable. The base of the aumbry is constructed with a re-used early christian sandstone cross-slab (LA002-013005-) decorated with a double line incised cross with circular base (Feehan 1983, 410). Broken quern stone (diam. 0.41m; T 0.1m) lying on top of S wall located off centre to E, second possible quern stone re-used as capping stone in S quadrant of graveyard wall. This church is situated in the parish of Kilmanman and according to O'Hanlon it was associated with St Manman, who in the seventh century built 'the monastery of Lanchoil or Lahoil, and he called it Corigeen, or the "hermitage of the rocks". Near it is a barrow called "the Giant's Grave' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, 267). This church was located beside an old road connecting the village of Clonaslee with the settlement at Cadamstown (Feehan 1979, 97). According to Feehan the name Labchoil or Lahoil was derived from the Irish lann-coill, meaning church wood or from leamh-coill meaning an elm wood (Feehan 1979, 97). Lahool bridge sitiuated to the SE of the church and graveyard still preserves the memory of this placename. 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

• LA002-013002 Graveyard
  Description

  In low lying area, undifferentiated church (LA012-013001-) within an almost circular graveyard (diam. 48m) which is delimited by a stone wall (H 1.3m; Wall T 0.45m). Quernstone base (diam 0.43m) with small central hole in S wall of graveyard. Cross slabs originally from here now at Clonaslee church (LA00 2:012). 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

• LA002-013003 Cross-slab
  Description

  In low lying area, undifferentiated church (LA012-013001-) within an almost circular graveyard (LA002-013002-) which is delimited by a stone wall. Cross-slabs originally came from here but have now been moved to Clonaslee Catholic church (LA002:012). Depicted as Carrigeen no. 1 by Leask in 1939 and described as a 'pillar slab, 5 ft. 4 ins. Long by 1 ft. 4 ins. Wide at broadest part; some parts spalled off. An incised Greek cross in a circle occupies central position. The upper arm of cross is two lined and starts from a curved double pot-hook line - roughly concentric with central circle and hooked at extremities and finish in a half round expansion. The lower member shaft is of two lines and finishes in the same way but diverges near the circle into two short curves concentric with it' (Leask 1939, 187). 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

• LA002-013004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains visible of any enclosure around church and graveyard, circular shape of graveyard wall suggests that this wall may repsect the line of an earlier enclosure. Situated on W facing slope of rising ground in upland area with nearby stream 45m to the E of the graveyard (LA002-013002-). Poorly preserved church (LA002-013001-) located in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard defined by a sandstone wall. Low earth and stone bank (Top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) with traces of a outer fosse visible at E only; this bank runs out from the base of the graveyard wall at SE and forms a circular boundary to the E of the upstanding graveyard wall. It just peters out to the NE of the graveyard with no surface remains visible to the N or W of the graveyard. This bank appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary or may be remains of a small ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004-). This bank is located at a distance of 28m from the outer face of the graveyard wall at E. Curving section of graveyard wall to N of church may be on line of earlier enclosure (approx. diam. 75m). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-013005 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated on W facing slope of rising ground in upland area with nearby stream 45m to the E of the graveyard (LA002-013002-). Poorly preserved church located in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard defined by a sandstone wall . Low earth and stone bank with traces of a outer fosse visible at E only; this bank runs out from the base of the graveyard wall at SE and forms a circular boundary to the E of the upstanding graveyard wall. This bank appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary or may be remains of a small ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004-). Only the E gable of the church (LA002-013001-) stands in the centre of the graveyard. Small aumbry located off centre to S in E wall with destroyed E window in centre of E gable. The base of the aumbry is constructed with a re-used early christian sandstone cross-slab (Wth 0.32m; T 0.07m; L 0.95m) decorated with a double line incised cross with circular base (Feehan 1983, 410). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-013006 Cross-slab
  Description

  In low lying area, undifferentiated church (LA012-013001-) within an almost circular graveyard (LA002-013002-) which is delimited by a stone wall. Cross slab originally came from here but have been now moved to Clonaslee Catholic church (LA002-012001-). Depicted as Carrigeen no. 3 by Leask and described as a 'perfect slab about the same length as no. 2 but somewhat wider. It bears a two-line cross, with no side arms expanded at ends into half rounds and into a circle at centre, concentric with an inner circle in which is a small Greek incised cross (2" x 2"). Two cup marks flank the upper arm' (Leask 1939, 187). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-013007 Cross-slab
  Description

  Cross-slab has been moved to the RC church at Clonaslee and has been incorporated into the fabric of the churchyard wall of the RC church (LA002-012002-) and could not be found during site visit. One of a group of three cross-slabs (LA002-013006; LA002-013003-) which were moved from this graveyard to the RC church at Clonaslee. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynahown, 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 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 Ballynahown.

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

Name

Ballynahown · Baile na hAbhann

Area

1,516,271 m² (151.63 ha, 374.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Castlecuffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 136 households in the Castlecuffe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrig (Co. Offaly), Coolacrease (Co. Offaly), Coolagh, Garryhedder, Killinaparson, Sheskin (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Ballynahown 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.