Ballybrackan Little
Ballybrackan Little is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyboy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Bhreacáin Beag.
Parcel 308603
- Area
- 289,954 m² (29 ha, 71.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 288 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballybrackan Little
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1783 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 92.9 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 25,526 m² (2.55 ha, 6.31 acres)
- Zoning
- C3
- Enterprise and Employment
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrackan Little, from 19,887 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres) to 289,954 m² (29 ha, 71.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 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 · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Dec 2025Refused
demolishing and rebuild existing derelict cottage. Works to include: removal of floors, structurally compromised roof and walls. Permission is sought to rebuild cottage on existing footprint and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560608
25 Nov 2025N/a
demolish and rebuild existing derelict cottage. Works to include: removal of floors, structurally compromised roof and walls. Permission is sought to rebuild cottage on existing footprint and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560591
11 Nov 2025N/a
extending and extensively renovate existing cottage and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560546
5 Oct 2021Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CAR PARK WITH SET-DOWN AREAS, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SCHOOL ENTRANCES, CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES, AND ERECTION OF A NEW SCHOOL SIGN BOARD, ALL LOCATED AT THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENTS WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21616
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybrackan Little.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybrackan Little.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybrackan Little.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballybrackan Little, about 1 in 5 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_1783 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybrackan Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybrackan Little · Baile Uí Bhreacáin Beag
- Area
- 929,240 m² (92.92 ha, 229.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyboy
- Electoral division
- Kilcormac, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,486 people lived in 551 households in the Kilcormac electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrackan or Ridgemount, Kilnagall, Lea Beg, Park
- Placenames
- Ballybrackan Little 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.