Ballynanum

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynanum, from 361 m² to 222,919 m² (22.29 ha, 55.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballynanum 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 Jun 2026N/a

  extensions to existing creche facility and also for planning permission to provide a prefabricated modular structure and all associated works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660298

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  THE CHANGE OF USE OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A CRÈCHE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23128

• 7 Mar 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22100

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 Ballynanum.

Recorded monuments

• OF011-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark on aerial photo (GSI N 455/456). No surface traces. 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 Ballynanum.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2260 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballynanum · Baile an Anama

Area

500,076 m² (50.01 ha, 123.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Edenderry Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Edenderry Rural electoral division: 890 people in 288 households; 94% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbash, Ballyfore Big, Ballyfore Little, Ballykilleen, Drumcooly, Rathgreedan

Placenames

Ballynanum 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.