Ballylehane Lower

132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylehane Lower, from 42 m² to 343,149 m² (34.31 ha, 84.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Ballylehane Lower 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

  Construct a New Dwelling, Garage, Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area and New Site Entrance and to include all Associated Ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560704

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with connecting carport to a domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560431

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  retain double garage

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23187

• 13 Feb 2023N/a

  retain existing entrance as constructed; retain existing house and stables as constructed; retain existing general hardstand area; retain existing septic tank with permission to upgrade to a secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2342

• 12 Feb 2021Refused

  1. permit relocation of existing entrance, the installation of a waste water system consisting of primary, secondary & tertiary treatment for disposal to ground; 2. retain the construction of a single storey dwelling, hard standing area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2180

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  demolish an existing shed and construct a new calf shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20640

• 25 Nov 2020N/a

  demolish an existing shed and construct a new calf shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20612

• 16 Dec 2019Conditional

  change location of entrance from that previously granted with planning reference 18/344 and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19714

• 17 Oct 2019Conditional

  amend previous grant of planning ref 15/285 to consist of (a) Revised site boundaries, (b) Location of dwelling on site and (c) Revised design of same dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19574

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  1). install a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter 2). to retain the construction of a single storey dwelling, hard standing area, alterations to existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19238

• 9 Jan 2019Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, packaged waste water treatment system, percolation area, new entrance and all associated & necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 197

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation anda and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18344

• 4 Apr 2018Refused

  1. install a wastewater treatment system consisting of primary, secondary and tertiary treatment for disposal to ground. 2. RETENTION PERMISSION for the construction of a single storey dwelling, hard standing area, alterations to entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18202

• 5 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct an agricultural shed including 2 slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17654

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 Ballylehane Lower.

Recorded monuments

• LA025-028 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Described in the History of the Queens County as 'Ballylehane Castle, now in ruins, is referred to by Clyn at the year 1346' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 251). Described in 1910 as 'a limestone mural slab (LA025-037----) (23 inches high by 34 inches in length), formerly in Ballylehane Castle, in the Parish of Killabban and Queens County, an now built into a gate-pier of the field in which a fragment of the castle ruin now stands' (FitzGerald 1910, 241-2). Ballylehane Castle was granted to the ancestor of the Hovenden family in 1570, it is difficult to explain the presence of the O'Connor arms there, unless there was an intermarriage between them (FitzGerald 1910, 242). No visible surface remains of the armorial panel or the castle survive. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-029 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  No known historical references. In undulating countryside. Site is indicated by a shallow pool of water (D c. 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-030 Mound
  Description

  Mound visible on aerial photograph (BKS 75964/5). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-037 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Reference to a castle (LA025-028) here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1981, 251, 303). Built into the gate-pier of the field where the castle stood is an early 17th century Armorial panel of the O'Conors of Offaly (JKAS 1910 Vol. VI, 241-2). No visible surface remains. Described in 1910 as 'a limestone mural slab (23 inches high by 34 inches in length), formerly in Ballylehane Castle, in the Parish of Killabban and Queens County, an now built into a gate-pier of the field in which a fragment of the castle ruin now stands. On the slab the crest is shown as a dove-like bird; there are two lion or leopard like supporters (which are unusual, except in a peer's coat-of-arms); and below the shield, on a scroll, is the war cry of the Leinster O'Connors - Falvagh-Abo (I.e. Offaly to victory). This slab belongs to the early seventeenth century' (JKAS 1910, VI, 241-2). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 07 December 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylehane Lower.

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 Ballylehane Lower, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballylehane Lower.

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 Ballylehane Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballylehane Lower · Baile Uí Liatháin Íochtarach

Area

3,298,576 m² (329.86 ha, 815.1 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Ballylehane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

203 people lived in 73 households in the Ballylehane electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycorman, Ballylehane Upper, Boley, Castletown, Coonbeg, Gracefield, Kilcruise, Kilfeacle, Rathaspick, Shanragh, Skehanagh

Placenames

Ballylehane Lower 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.