Ballingowan Glebe

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingowan Glebe, from 398 m² to 119,491 m² (11.95 ha, 29.53 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 Ballingowan Glebe 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.

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALSO PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18559

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 Ballingowan Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• Store/warehouse, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey with attic former canal goods shed, built c.1850, now used as a house. Pitched slate roof with cut stone gable coping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed rubble walls with stone quoins. Yellow brick surround to windows with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Detached three-bay single-storey goods shed to south-west with replacement corrugated-iron barrel-vaulted roof and random coursed stone walls with stone quoins.

• 33rd Lock, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry canal bridge, built c.1800, carrying the road to Belmont over the Grand Canal at the 33rd lock. Dressed limestone blocks regularly laid. Arch of segmental profile. String course from parapet to piers. Curved deck with ramped approaches.

• Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built in 1884, on the Clara to Banagher line of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Single-storey structure to rear. Station now in domestic use. Situated on roadside. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with roughcast rendered walls, corbelled cornice with red brick course. Timber sash windows with stone sills, replacement timber casement windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door surmounted by overlight. Cut stone railway platform to rear with moulded nosing to kerb.

• Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, signal box, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey former railway signal box, built at Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station on the Clara to Banagher line by the Great Southern and Western Railway and opened in 1884. No longer in use. Pyramidal roof with lead ridges. Brick base with timber walls. Timber casement windows to timber sills. Adjacent to railway station and line.

• Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey goods shed, built at Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station on the Clara to Banagher line by the Great Southern and Western Railway and opened in 1884. Abutted by corrugated-iron extension. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone walls. Square-headed window openings with brick surround. Iron bars to windows. Square-headed door opening with brick surround and timber lintel, double timber doors.

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 Ballingowan Glebe, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballingowan Glebe.

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

Name

Ballingowan Glebe · Gléib Bhaile an Ghabhann

Area

865,304 m² (86.53 ha, 213.82 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughan, Ballysheil, Bellmount or Lisderg, Drishoge or Strawberryhill, Killagally Glebe, Smithstown

Placenames

Ballingowan Glebe 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.