Ballyshane
Ballyshane is a townland in the civil parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Baile Sheáin.
Parcel 4861569
- Area
- 833 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 71 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
- Ballyshane
Planning applications on this parcel
7 Feb 2019Conditional
(A) MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING FRONT OPEN PORCH TO INCLUDE, ENCLOSING THE SPACE, NEW FRONT DOOR POSITION AND GABLE STYLE ROOF, (B) SINGLE STOREY FAMILY FLAT TYPE EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) NEW FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH NEW ENTRANCE WING WALLS, PILLARS AND GATES, (D) NEW TIMBER FRAME PERGOLA STYLE CAR PORT TO REAR OF PROPERTY (E) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON-SITE, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1946
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
- 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2283 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 72 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 3,064 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshane, from 90 m² to 168,138 m² (16.81 ha, 41.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Aug 2025Conditional
on the grant of outline permission (ref: 24/60461). The development will consist of constructing a one & a half storey domestic dwelling & all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560363
12 Aug 2025N/a
on the grant of outline permissions ref: 24/60461. The development will consist of constructing a one & a half storey domestic dwelling & all associated site works
Permission consequent · Offaly County Council, 2560356
19 Nov 2024Conditional
domestic dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new recessed entrance & all associated site works
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 2460461
5 Nov 2024N/a
domestic dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new recessed entrance & all associated site works
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 2460436
24 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW, SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SECONDARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, UTILISATION OF EXISTING FAMILY ENTRANCE (SHARED) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460140
12 Oct 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW, SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SECONDARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22528
29 Sept 2020Conditional
(A) NEW DETACHED DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE, (B) NEW RECESSED SITE ENTRANCE, (C) NEW ON-SITE DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (D) LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20463
7 Feb 2019Conditional
(A) MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING FRONT OPEN PORCH TO INCLUDE, ENCLOSING THE SPACE, NEW FRONT DOOR POSITION AND GABLE STYLE ROOF, (B) SINGLE STOREY FAMILY FLAT TYPE EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) NEW FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH NEW ENTRANCE WING WALLS, PILLARS AND GATES, (D) NEW TIMBER FRAME PERGOLA STYLE CAR PORT TO REAR OF PROPERTY (E) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON-SITE, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1946
1 Oct 2018Conditional
DORMER STYLE HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18419
11 Jun 2018Conditional
SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON-SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18251
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 Ballyshane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshane.
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
- 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 low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshane.
- 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 Ballyshane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyshane · Baile Sheáin
- Area
- 719,772 m² (71.98 ha, 177.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonsast, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Electoral division
- Bracknagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,141 people lived in 381 households in the Bracknagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinowlart South, Ballinrahin, Clonbrin, Clonbrock Lower, Kilcloncorkry
- Placenames
- Ballyshane 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.