Ballysheil

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysheil, from 164 m² to 323,631 m² (32.36 ha, 79.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysheil 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.

• 23 Aug 2025Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560385

• 5 Aug 2025N/a

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560350

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  1) THE AMENDED LOCATION FOR THE SITE ENTRANCE, ORIGINALLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE (081034). THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE RETENTION OF TWO ADDITIONAL SITE ENTRANCES ADJACENT TO THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ENTRANCE, ALONG WITH GATES, PIERS, AND ASSOCIATED GROUNDWORKS. 2) RETENTION OF CHANGES TO THE DOMESTIC GARAGE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE (081034). 3) RETENTION OF A BUILDING USED FOR DOMESTIC FUEL STORE (AREA: 30.65M2), CHILDREN'S PLAYROOM (AREA: 20.48M2) AND EXTERNAL PATIO AREA. 4) RETENTION OF THE RELOCATION OF THE EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ASSOCIATED WITH PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE (081034). 5) RETENTION OF SITE WORKS AT THE REAR OF THE SITE, INCLUDING GROUNDWORKS, RETAINING WALLS, AND SITE LIGHTING, FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE. 6) RETENTION OF EXISTING STORAGE UNIT (AREA: 104.25M2), FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE, INCLUDING LEAN TO ROOF TO ADJACENT PROPERTY. 7) RETENTION OF 1 NO STORAGE CONTAINER FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE (AREA: 32.78M2). 8) RETENTION FOR 2 NO. DEMOUNTABLE STORAGE CANOPIES FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE (TOTAL AREA: 48.97M2). 9) RETENTION FOR 2 NO. DEMOUNTABLE STORAGE UNITS FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL (TOTAL AREA: 20.93M2)

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2550

• 28 Apr 2025N/a

  1) RETENTION OF THE AMENDED LOCATION FOR THE SITE ENTRANCE, ORIGINALLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE (081034). THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE RETENTION OF TWO ADDITIONAL SITE ENTRANCES ADJACENT TO THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ENTRANCE, ALONG WITH GATES, PIERS, AND ASSOCIATED GROUNDWORKS. 2) RETENTION OF CHANGES TO THE DOMESTIC GARAGE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE (081034). 3) RETENTION OF A BUILDING USED FOR DOMESTIC FUEL STORE (AREA: 30.65M2), CHILDREN'S PLAYROOM (AREA: 20.48M2) AND EXTERNAL PATIO AREA. 4) RETENTION OF THE RELOCATION OF THE EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ASSOCIATED WITH PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE (081034). 5) RETENTION OF SITE WORKS AT THE REAR OF THE SITE, INCLUDING GROUNDWORKS, RETAINING WALLS, AND SITE LIGHTING, FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE. 6) RETENTION OF EXISTING STORAGE UNIT (AREA: 104.25M2), FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE, INCLUDING LEAN TO ROOF TO ADJACENT PROPERTY. 7) RETENTION OF 1 NO STORAGE CONTAINER FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE (AREA: 32.78M2). 8) RETENTION FOR 2 NO. DEMOUNTABLE STORAGE CANOPIES FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE ( TOTAL AREA: 48.97M2). 9) RETENTION FOR 2 NO. DEMOUNTABLE STORAGE UNITS FOR LIGH INDUSTRIAL (TOTAL AREA: 20.93M2)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2541

• 9 Sept 2024N/a

  retention for 2 no. existing sheds and permission for a storage shed to rear of site.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460345

• 6 Sept 2024N/a

  Retention permission for 2 no. existing sheds. Permission for a storage shed to rear of site.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460343

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  ONE NUMBER SINGLE STOREY GARAGE WITH LEAN-TO STORAGE AREAS. PERMISSION TO RETAIN & COMPLETE PARTIALLY BUILT CAMPERVAN STORAGE SHED, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 17290

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF014-043 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on the low-lying floodplains of the river Brosna in undulating countryside. Large T-shaped gable ended house (ext. dims. N-S 12m; E-W 16.5m; wall T 0.75m) two storeys high with attic over and basement below and tall slender gable ended chimney stacks with blank arcading which is possibly a later addition. The front of the house consists of four tall rectangular windows at each level with a central door now destroyed with a gabled projection at rear of house directly opposite the door which contained the wooden stairs. The attic is lit by two small windows either side of the gabled chimney flues while the windows at the first floor level on the front are located directly under the eaves. There is a bawn wall attached to the NE angle of the house. All these features would indicate an early 18th-century date for this building, although a late 17th century cannot be ruled out. 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

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballysheil · Baile Uí Shiail

Area

926,167 m² (92.62 ha, 228.86 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Gallen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gallen electoral division: 588 people in 203 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingowan Glebe, Bellmount or Lisderg, Cush East, Glyn, Killagally Glebe, Smithstown

Placenames

Ballysheil 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.