Ballinlough

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 281 m² to 298,882 m² (29.89 ha, 73.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 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.

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  A DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, THE BLOCKING UP OF AN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, A PROPOSED PRIVATE ENTRANCE TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND A PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH-WEST, FRONT BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24121

• 27 Oct 2023N/a

  A DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, ADJUSTING THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO FORM A NEW AGRICULTURAL GATEWAY, AND A PROPOSED PRIVATE ENTRANCE TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, FRONT BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23406

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO NORTH, EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATION, RE SLATING ROOF THROUGHOUT, PROPOSED WINDOW OPE TO SOUTH ELEVATION, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS, INSTALLING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22224

• 19 Apr 2022N/a

  PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO NORTH, EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATION, RESLATING ROOF THROUGHOUT, PROPOSED WINDOW OPE TO SOUTH ELEVATION, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS, INSTALLING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22195

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18565

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18255

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

• OF042-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise in undulating countryside. Roughly circular platform (diam 35m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank which has been reduced in places to a scarp (ext. H 1m) with no evidence of a fosse or entrance feature. The perimeter of the site is very overgrown with field clearance material making examination difficult. 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

• OF042-056 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  Cropmark of semi-circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) running off stream/ravine visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 10/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballinlough.

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

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

1,734,837 m² (173.48 ha, 428.69 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

Ballyknockan, Ballyrickard Beg, Curragh, Fortwilliam, Heath, Knock, Loughwheelion or Moneyadda

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.