Ballychristal

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballychristal, from 111 m² to 395,491 m² (39.55 ha, 97.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballychristal 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.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  RED III application - The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 143.4 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, two temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development will utilise two existing access points, which will include the upgrading and widening of an existing access off the L1013. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660319

• 28 May 2026N/a

  RED III application - The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 143.4 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, two temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development will utilise two existing access points, which will include the upgrading and widening of an existing access off the L1013. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660287

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  extending house, fit a new effluent treatment system and all associated site works and services .Retention permission for extension to rear of house as constructed

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660070

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  ROAD / JUNCTION ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE TURBINE DELIVERIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT IN CO. KILDARE. A CONCURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED TO KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169M AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE; ERECTION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST OF UP TO 100M IN HEIGHT; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY WORKS AND EQUIPMENT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2138

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 Ballychristal.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-012 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Eastern portion of enclosure shows on aerial photo (N 506/5) but western portion is visible on the ground. Univallate ringfort (max N-S chord c. 43m) defined by shallow fosse and much degraded internal bnak. Interior slightly raised above the level of the surrounding field. Located on flat well drained terrain in undulating countryside. Only the W half survives although the outline of the E half is still discernible under suitable conditions. A field fence dissects the site on a N-S axis. What remains of the site is in fair condition and consists of a raised platform (diam 45m N-S; ext. H 1m) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2m). No entrance feature visible. Aerial photographs (GSI N, 506/5; 175/4) shows outline of circular ringfort. 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

• OF026-098 Burnt spread
  Description

  In tillage field, 300m E of Lough Banagher. Feature identified by Séamus Ó Murchú in the course of an archaeological desk based assessment of a forestry felling licence application. Visible as a dark soil mark (dims. c. 38m E-W x 24m N-S) on aerial imagery available on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine iFORIS system. Elongated dark spread visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Séamus Ó Murchú Date of upload: 27 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Ballychristal House, house, 1680–1720 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1700, with central pediment and flanking two-storey wings, c.1800. House is flanked by screen walls. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth-rendered plinth and brick saw-tooth cornice. Square-headed window openings with sandstone sills to main house and tooled limestone sills to flanking bays with uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door. Random coursed screen walls flank house. Walled garden to rear of house. Single- and two-storey outbuilding to yard. Bellcote rebuilt in 2000. Site accessed through wrought-iron piers flanked by limestone walls.

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 Ballychristal.

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

Name

Ballychristal · Baile Mhic Criostail

Area

1,621,642 m² (162.16 ha, 400.72 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Rathfeston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathfeston electoral division: 460 people in 150 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintogher, Ballydownan, Ballykean, Bawnmore, Dalgan, Raheen, Raheenbeg, Urney

Placenames

Ballychristal 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.