Ballyknockan

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan, from 180 m² to 317,579 m² (31.76 ha, 78.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460037

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, A BORED WELL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING AN AVENUE AND PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23425

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23376

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 Ballyknockan.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-010001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located in low-lying natural hollow in upland area. Only the W and S walls with portion of the N wall of bawn survives. Tower house was located in NE corner of bawn (OF042-010002-) where only a pile of rubble survives. Modern sheds abutted against the E side of the bawn. The bawn consists of a rectangular shaped area (int. dims. 56m N-S; 61m E-W approx.; wall T 0.7m) with two surviving circular angle towers at SW and NW angles. The angle towers (int. diam. 2.85m: wall T 0.8m) were two storeys high and accessed externally from the bawn area at each level similar to the angle towers at Kilcolgan castle (OF015-011----). Evidence of gun loops were visible on both towers and bawn wall. The interior of the bawn was accessed through a large segmental arched entrance at the centre of the S wall. From the entrance a stone walled avenue (Wth 3m) running N-S divided the bawn into two areas. The tower house was located in the E half with the domestic quarters located in the W half. The remains of a small square house bonded to the N end of the W wall (int. dims. 4.6m by 4.6m; wall T 0.55m) is probably contemporary with the bawn and fortified house. Other outhouses of a later period are attached to the N wall of the bawn. All the surviving evidence points to a tower house with large bawn wall with circular flanking towers erected in the 17th-century. Kilcolgan castle (OF015-011----) in North Offaly is very similar to the above remains. Archaeological monitoring of the excavation of wall foundations for a proposed new extension to an existing dwelling house immediately to the N of the castle was undertaken by Dominc Delany under licence no. 03E0527. No archaeological material was discovered during monitoring. (Delany, D. 2003, Archaeological Monitoring at Ballyknockan, Co. Offaly. Unpublished excavation report) 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

• OF042-010002 Bawn
  Description

  Located in low-lying natural hollow in upland area. Only the W and S walls with portion of the N wall of bawn survives. Tower house (OF042-010001-) was located in NE corner of bawn where only a pile of rubble survives. Modern sheds abutted against the E side of the bawn. The bawn consists of a rectangular shaped area (int. dims. 56m N-S; 61m E-W approx.; wall T 0.7m) with two surviving circular angle towers at SW and NW angles. The angle towers (int. diam. 2.85m: wall T 0.8m) were two storeys high and accessed externally from the bawn area at each level similar to the angle towers at Kilcolgan castle (SMR 15:11). Evidence of gun loops were visible on both towers and bawn wall. The interior of the bawn was accessed through a large segmental arched entrance at the centre of the S wall. From the entrance a stone walled avenue (Wth 3m) running N-S divided the bawn into two areas. The tower house was located in the E half with the domestic quarters located in the W half. The remains of a small square house bonded to the N end of the W wall (int. dims. 4.6m by 4.6m; wall T 0.55m) is probably contemporary with the bawn and fortified house. Other outhouses of a later period are attached to the N wall of the bawn. All the surviving evidence points to a fortified house with large bawn wall with circular flanking towers erected in the 17th-century. Kilcolgan castle (SMR 15:11) in North Offaly is very similar to the above remains. 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 Ballyknockan.

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 Ballyknockan.

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

Name

Ballyknockan · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

1,571,529 m² (157.15 ha, 388.33 acres)

Civil parish

Ettagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Ettagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ettagh electoral division: 515 people in 170 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadouglas, Ballinlough, Ballybeg, Ballyrickard Beg, Conicker, Coolderry, Coolroe, Curragh

Placenames

Ballyknockan 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.