Ballincloghan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincloghan, from 106 m² to 113,794 m² (11.38 ha, 28.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballincloghan 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.

• 31 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2628

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  1. AS CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING KITCHEN, DINING ROOM, SITTING ROOM, HOTPRESS, BATHROOM AND PLANT ROOM AND PORCH AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE AND ATTIC STORAGE WITH W.C AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. 2. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED KITCHEN TO GRANNY FLAT. 3. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED PORTAL FRAME SHED FOR USE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DWELLING HOUSE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. 4. PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND TO REPLACE WITH NEW FRONT ELEVATION TO EXISTING GRANNY FLAT

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2539

• 23 Jan 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING TWO NUMBER KITCHENS, DINING ROOM, SITTING ROOM, HOTPRESS, BATHROOM AND PLANT ROOM AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE AND ATTIC STORAGE WITH W.C AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED PORTAL FRAME SHED FOR USE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DWELLING HOUSE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND TO REPLACE WITH NEW FRONT ELEVATION

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 253

• 18 Dec 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTED EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING TWO NUMBER KITCHENS, DINING ROOM, SITTING ROOM, HOTPRESS, BATHROOM AND PLANT ROOM AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE AND ATTIC STORAGE WITH W.C AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED PORTAL FRAME SHED FOR USE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DWELLING HOUSE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND TO REPLACE WITH NEW FRONT ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 24181

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE DWELLING, SEPARATE GARAGE, A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, NEW HEDGE AT BOUNDARY, NEW SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, SOAKAWAYS, CONNECTION TO MAINS WATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2363

• 8 Feb 2023N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE DWELLING, SEPARATE GARAGE, A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, NEW HEDGE AT BOUNDARY, NEW SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, SOAKAWAYS, CONNECTION TO MAINS WATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2345

• 8 Jun 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20213

• 25 Nov 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO 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, 19557

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballincloghan.

Architectural heritage

• 30th Lock, lock keeper's house, 1790–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement lock keeper's cottage, built c.1800, with single-bay adjoining block to west. Located at the 30th lock on the Grand Canal. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth render to walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Gable fronted porch with timber battened door. Set at edge of canal.

• Ballincloghan Bridge, bridge, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry accommodation bridge, built c.1804, over the Grand Canal. Coursed dressed limestone to lower parapet wall with dressed string course and rubble wall parapet. Dressed limestone voussoirs and soffits of rubble. Hump back deck. Located at the west end of the 30th lock of the Canal. Lock gates to upstream and stone steps downstream.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballincloghan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1827 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballincloghan · Baile an Tulcháin

Area

845,248 m² (84.52 ha, 208.87 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincur, Cappaloughan, Cornalaur, Kilpatrick

Placenames

Ballincloghan 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.