Ballymooney

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymooney, from 515 m² to 355,604 m² (35.56 ha, 87.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballymooney 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.

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  Two storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and all associated site works and temporary permission to place a mobile home on site for the duration of the building of the house

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460522

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DORMER STYLE FARM DWELLING (B) NEW TWO STOREY REPLACEMENT FARM DWELLING ON AN EXISTING FARM, WITH FOUR BEDROOMS AND SOLAR PANELS (C) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (D) ENTRANCE THROUGH THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY (E) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23176

• 4 Apr 2023N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DORMER-STYLE FARM DWELLING. (B) NEW TWO STORY REPLACEMENT FARM DWELLING ON AN EXISTING FARM, WITH FOUR BEDROOMS AND SOLAR PANELS. (C) CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. (D) ENTRANCE THROUGH THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY. (E) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23143

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  ONE NUMBER DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2337

• 20 Jan 2023N/a

  ONE NUMBER DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2313

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  (A) NEW 4 BEDROOM DORMER TYPE DWELLING, (B) NEW GARAGE FOR DOMESTIC USE ONLY, (C) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, (D) NEW RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE OFF LOCAL ROAD, (E) AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21674

• 22 Aug 2019Conditional

  THE EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO EXTEND THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO THE FRONT AND REAR, PROVIDE FOR FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS, NEW PIERS AND WING WALLS TO EXISTING FRONT GATED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19415

• 14 Aug 2019N/a

  EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO EXTEND THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO THE FRONT AND REAR, PROVIDE FOR FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS, NEW PIERS AND WING WALLS TO EXISTING FRONT GATED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19402

• 23 Aug 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18361

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 Ballymooney.

Recorded monuments

• OF018-017001 Graveyard
  Description

  The ground level rises sharply at the centre of the enclosed area and might indicate the remains of the foundations of a church (OF018-017002-). No evidence of bullaun (OF018-017003-) stone. No early graveslabs (OF018-017002-) visible. Poorly preserved low square shaped motte (OF018-017005-) located in the N sector of Annagharvey graveyard. 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

• OF018-017002 Church
  Description

  The ground level rises sharply at the centre of the enclosed area and might indicate the remains of the foundations of a church. Large boulder set on edge n centre of graveyard may be remains of a portion of a possible N wall belonging to a levelled church that was situated in the centre of graveyard. No evidence of bullaun (OF018-017003-) stone. No early graveslabs visible. Poorly preserved low square shaped motte (OF018-017005-) located in the N sector of Annagharvey graveyard (OF018-007001-). This record for graveslabs was based on the ITS survey reference to old gravestones which are of post-1700 AD date. 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

• OF018-017003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  No surface traces visible of bullaun stone inside Annaghharvey graveyard (OF018-017001-) described by Thomas Stanley in the ninetenth century as 'Another sandstone lies on its back at the moat (OF018-017005-) and churchyard of Anaghharvy; a hollow in which it retains water is resorted to by urchins to get cured of their warts' (Stanley 1870-1, 28). 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

• OF018-017005 Castle - motte
  Description

  Oval-shaped flat-topped mound (max H 3.50m, max W at top N-S c. 20m, 14mE-W, max basal dims N-S c. 31m, E-W c. 25m) situated in low lying area in N sector of graveyard and delimited by a wide shallow fosse. Steep sided at N and quarried at W side. Possible motte. Poorly preserved low square shaped motte (H 3.5m; top diam 14 - 20m; base diam 30m) located in the N sector of Annagharvey graveyard (OF018-017001-) enclosed by a wide flat bottomed fosse with no evidence of a bailey. 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

• OF018-018002 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. , Natural ridge near stream. Doubtful antiquity. Potential enclosure identified from GSI earlier photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 508/07). 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 Ballymooney.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballymooney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballymooney · Béal Átha Uí Mhaonaigh

Area

2,366,342 m² (236.63 ha, 584.74 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagharvey, Ballinagar, Ballycrumlin, Ballycue, Ballyknockan, Curragh, Killellery, Lugmore, Toberleheen

Placenames

Ballymooney 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.