Ballyhugh or Springfield

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhugh or Springfield, from 45 m² to 206,558 m² (20.66 ha, 51.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ballyhugh or Springfield 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.

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460474

• 17 Nov 2024N/a

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460458

• 22 Jan 2020Conditional

  TWO BAYS OF AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING AN AUTOMATED MILKING PARLOUR, CALVING AREA AND CATTLE CUBICLES INCLUDING AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 209

• 13 Dec 2019N/a

  TWO BAYS OF AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCOPORATING AN AUTOMATED MILKING PAARLOUR, CALVING AREA AND CATTLE CUBICLES INCLUDING AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19595

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND AN ADJACENT DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1782

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 Ballyhugh or Springfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhugh or Springfield.

Architectural heritage

• Springfield House, country house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey double-pile country house, built c.1750, with outbuildings to east and remains of walled garden to north. Double-span pitched slate roof treated with tar with cut stone coping to gable ends, cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with roughcast render to walls, pedimented breakfront with tooled stone string course and coping to pediment. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills to façade. Round-headed stair light with timber sash window. Diocletian window. Replacement timber casement and timber sash windows to rear with tooled stone sills. Remains of walled garden to north. Yard to east accessed through stone outbuilding with integral carriage arch. Stone ranges of outbuildings to north-east. Rear entrance with circular random coursed stone gate piers to wrought-iron gates. Main entrance with tooled limestone octagonal gate piers, quadrant walls and wrought-iron gates no longer used.

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 moderately low, 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 Ballyhugh or Springfield.

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

Name

Ballyhugh or Springfield · Baile Mhic Aodha

Area

729,015 m² (72.9 ha, 180.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Esker, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycon, Ballyhugh, Esker Beg, Killeen, Newtown

Placenames

Ballyhugh or Springfield 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.