Ballynacanty

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacanty, from 347 m² to 514,875 m² (51.49 ha, 127.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Ballynacanty 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY/GENERAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 25108

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  THE RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING, NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE ENVIRONS OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE AS NOTED IN THE OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027 (REFERENCE: 43-001)

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 23183

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  A PROPOSED NEW DWELLING, DRIVEWAY, NEW BOREWELL, PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, STORMWATER SOAKAWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21476

• 8 Jun 2020Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20211

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FARM BUILDING FOR THE HOUSING OF LIVESTOCK INCLUDING A SLATTED AREA OVER AN UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND RETENTION PERMISSION OF FARM BUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED FOR THE HOUSING OF LIVESTOCK; ALL COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19603

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19395

• 30 Jul 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19382

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18483

• 17 Sept 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, FORGE INCLUDING MATERIALS STORE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18399

• 12 Jun 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18253

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 Ballynacanty.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-031 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Dried up poorly preserved well with no other features visible. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 47-8; Shaw 1971, 56-7). 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

• OF024-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 181/2) shows outline of circular enclosure. 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 Ballynacanty.

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 Ballynacanty.

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

Name

Ballynacanty · Baile an Cheantaigh

Area

2,181,543 m² (218.15 ha, 539.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Rathrobin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathrobin electoral division: 461 people in 152 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooldorragh Glebe, Derrylahan, Killananny, Killurin, Lugamarla, Mountpleasant, Sconce

Placenames

Ballynacanty 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.