Ballybrittan

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrittan, from 118 m² to 578,872 m² (57.89 ha, 143.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Ballybrittan 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.

• 16 Sept 2026N/a

  the construction of a storey and a half dwelling house, garage, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system/polishing filter and any associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660492

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED SHED, UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2575

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2519

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  (A) 1 NO. NEW TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2484

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  A TWO STOREY, FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING AND GARAGE. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22521

• 10 Jul 2020N/a

  A STORAGE SHED AND A BREAKERS YARD FOR END OF LIFE VEHICHLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20283

• 25 Mar 2020N/a

  A STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR A BREAKERS YARD FOR END OF LIFE VEHICHLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20105

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  THE 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, 20106

• 19 Mar 2020N/a

  A STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR A BREAKERS YARD FOR END OF LIFE VEHICLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2092

• 19 Mar 2020N/a

  THE 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 · Offaly County Council, 2093

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DORMER TYPE UNINHABITABLE HOUSE, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY TYPE HOUSE TO BE USED FOR STAFF ACCOMODATION PURPOSES AND OCCUPIED BY GROOMS PERSON WORKING AT BRICKFIELD STUD FARM, (C) GARAGE/FUEL STORE FOR DOMESTIC USE AND, (D) THE INSTALLATION OF OAKSTOWN BAF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA. (E) UPGRADING OF VEHICULAR RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17410

• 10 Oct 2017N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DORMER TYPE UNINHABITABLE HOUSE, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY TYPE HOUSE TO BE USED FOR STAFF ACCOMODATION PURPOSES AND OCCUPIED BY GROOMS PERSON WORKING AT BRICKFIELD STUD FARM, (C) GARAGE/FUEL STORE FOR DOMESTIC USE AND, (D) THE INSTALLATION OF OAKSTOWN BAF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA (E) UPGRADING OF VEHICULAR RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17390

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

• OF011-006 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Ivy-covered three storeys high tower house (13m E-W; 8m N-S) with wall-walk above and 18th-century house (OF011-057----) attached to its E side. The Tower house has been altered considerably by later disturbances such as one room which has been bricked up to be converted into a dairy and a window inserted into the N wall of the castle. Gap on the S wall may have been where the original doorway was located, blocked up two centred doorway just inside this gap on the E wall. Mural stairs in SE angle gives access to first floor (int. dims. 9.65m by 5.5m) at NE angle. The barrel vaulted ground floor inside the doorway to the left is full of ashes and inaccessible. The entrance for the stairs up to the second floor was on the S side of the room in the SE angle. Carved head (OF011-057001-) over the doorway of the 18th-century house (OF011-057----) may have originally belonged to the tower house. 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

• OF011-057 House - 17th century
  Description

  Large two storey five bay gable ended multiperiod structure dating from the late 17th and early 18th-centuries that was built onto the front of a Tower house (OF011-006----) with flat headed architraved door with tall gable ended chimney stacks. Over the front doorway of this house there is a limestone carved head (OF011-057001-) with a chain depicted hanging from the head. May have originally come from tower house or from nearby Ballymacwiliam Church (OF011-005----). 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

• OF011-057001 Stone head
  Description

  Large two storey five bay gable ended multiperiod house (OF011-057----) dating from the late 17th and early 18th-centuries that was built onto the front of a Tower house (OF011-006----) with flat headed architraved door with tall gable ended chimney stacks. Over the front doorway of this house there is a limestone carved head with a chain depicted hanging from the head. May have originally come from tower house or from nearby Ballymacwiliam Church (OF011-005----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballybrittan House, farm house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1750, with return and extension to rear and adjoining outbuildings to north. Set within own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed render to walls with smooth render to plinth. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Wrought-iron bars to ground floor windows. Some uPVC replacement windows to rear and side. Round-headed door opening with block-and-start surround, timber spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Ranges of pitched slate outbuildings set to rear yard with rendered walls and segmental-headed integral carriage arches. Cast-iron pump to yard with limestone trough. Wrought- and cast-iron railings to front site with wrought-iron gate.

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 Ballybrittan, 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_2220 (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 Ballybrittan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballybrittan · Baile Bhriotáin

Area

3,866,706 m² (386.67 ha, 955.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacwilliam, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

652 people lived in 214 households in the Ballymacwilliam electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinla, Ballybryan, Ballymacwilliam, Ballynamona, Ballystrig, Leitrim, Rathcobican, Rogerstown, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballybrittan 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.