Ballinlough

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 121 m² to 321,124 m² (32.11 ha, 79.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinlough 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 the townland of Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

• OF046-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Stout (1984) describes the site as an oval shaped area (diam 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 1m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF046-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, R 90/87) shows outline of circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF046-020001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Rectangular tower (dims. 7.65m N-S; 8.5m E-W; wall T 2.1m) three storeys high with attic and wall-walk above, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident. The tower was built on a natural rise of ground that is enclosed by a roughly circular bawn wall (OF046-020002-) with musket opes which are best preserved to S with wall footings elsewhere. There is a deep wide moat outside the bawn wall that is visible at S only. The bawn wall (wall T 1.1m; diam. 33m E-W) is built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The tower itself is accessed by a two centred pointed door with finely punch dressed jambs which are rebated with a yett hole visible. A murder-hole directly inside the doorway protects the passage to the ground floor chamber which is lit by three single flat headed windows set in wide deep embrasures. A mural passage in the E wall leads to a mural stairs in the NE corner which runs westwards to give access to all the main chambers. All the floors are wooden, carried on corbels. There is a garderobe chamber in the SW angle at first floor level. The second floor has a fireplace in the E wall with a tall rectangular chimney stack at wall-walk level. Access to the diagonally opposite bartizans which are carried externally on corbels at the NE and SW angles is from the third floor. The attic is lit by a small flat headed window either side of the E chimney stack. The E gable at wall-walk level is still intact and is accessed from the stairs in the NW angle. The wall-walk is crenellated with the E gable flush with the E wall. The stone dressing along with the architectural features suggests a late 16th/17th-century date for the Tower house. Depicted on the Down Survey map of 1655 as a castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF046-020002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Rectangular tower (OF046-020001-) three storeys high with attic and wall-walk above, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident. The tower was built on a natural rise of ground that is enclosed by a roughly circular bawn wall with musket opes which are best preserved to S with wall footings elsewhere. There is a deep wide moat outside the bawn wall that is visible at S only. The bawn wall (wall T 1.1m; diam. 33m E-W) is built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The tower itself is accessed by a two centred pointed door with finely punch dressed jambs which are rebated with a yett hole visible. A murder-hole directly inside the doorway protects the passage to the ground floor chamber which is lit by three single flat headed windows set in wide deep embrasures. A mural passage in the E wall leads to a mural stairs in the NE corner which runs westwards to give access to all the main chambers. All the floors are wooden, carried on corbels. There is a garderobe chamber in the SW angle at first floor level. The second floor has a fireplace in the E wall with a tall rectangular chimney stack at wall-walk level. Access to the diagonally opposite bartizans which are carried externally on corbels at the NE and SW angles is from the third floor. The attic is lit by a small flat headed window either side of the E chimney stack. The E gable at wall-walk level is still intact and is accessed from the stairs in the NW angle. The wall-walk is crenellated with the E gable flush with the E wall. The stone dressing along with the architectural features suggests a late 16th/17th-century date for the Tower house. Depicted on the Down Survey map of 1655 as a castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF046-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on high ground in upland area. Raised semicircular area (diam 30m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2m). Inner bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m) best preserved at S destroyed at E by field fence while the external bank is only visible from S to W. Possible causeway entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at W. Demesne wall running SW/NE runs across N sector of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Laughton House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey country house, built 1777, on the site of a seventeenth-century house, with additions of 1835 by James Pain. Main front consisting of two wide and shallow three-sided bows of three bays each with a two-bay centre between them. Single-storey wing of two bays, adorned with pilasters. Pediments and entablatures on console brackets over ground floor and first floor windows. Parapeted roof. Stable complex to rear.

• Laughton House, farmyard complex, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex associated with Laughton House, built c.1780.

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 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 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. Offaly.

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

1,289,739 m² (128.97 ha, 318.7 acres)

Civil parish

Borrisnafarney, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cullenwaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycormick, Clynoe, Moneygall, Park (Co. Tipperary), Rathmoyle

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.