Ballina

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 283,791 m² (28.38 ha, 70.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballina 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.

• 8 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a calf shed and all assocaited site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6718

• 5 Jun 2008Conditional

  Construction of Extension to existiong dwelling house and associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1055

• 30 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of extension to existing dwelling house and associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/828

• 16 Apr 2007Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1034

• 8 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted house with underground tanks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2339

• 16 Oct 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2136

• 3 Oct 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2019

• 8 Nov 2002Refused

  2 no. dwellings

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 02/4926

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 Ballina.

Recorded monuments

• CO082-110 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope overlooking a stream valley. This souterrain was discovered in 1999 when the ground collapsed. It consists of five earth-cut chambers and an annexe. The collapse (diam. 1m) allowed access through the roof at the SSW end of chamber 1. This chamber (2.8m NNE-SSW; 1m NNW-SSE; H 0.8m) is roughly oval in shape with a slightly pointed roof. At the SSW end is a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.6m) and immediately to the E of this is an opening (Wth 0.6m; H 0.54m) into a small annexe (1.2m N-S; 1m E-W; H 0.7m) with a possible air-vent in its SE corner. Much of the SSW end of the chamber is occupied by the collapsed earth and stones from the roof collapse. At the NNE end of chamber 1 is a creepway (L 0.2m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.54m) into chamber 2. This chamber (2.7m NW-SE; min. Wth 0.85m; H 0.85m) has a rounded roof and is roughly rectangular in plan but its NW end bulges out into an oval shape (Wth 1.3m) and contains a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.7m; H 0.8m). At its SE end is another blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m), c. 0.3m above the floor of the chamber. There is a creepway (L 0.36m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) in its SW wall which gives access to Chamber 3. This chamber (2.75m E-W; 1.17m N-S; H 0.87m) is roughly rectangular and has a rounded roof. Its floor is at a slightly lower level than that of chamber 2. A blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 1.1m) is visible towards the centre of its N wall. It is raised above the floor level and set back from the chamber wall. This is probably the same construction shaft that is visible at the NW end of chamber 2. At the W end of the chamber is a creepway (L 0.56m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.43m) into chamber 4. This chamber (2.5m N-S; 1.27m E-W) has a straight N end and a curved S end. At the N end of the W side is a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.8m; H 0.35m). The NW corner of the chamber is strewn with stones. A creepway (L 0.55m; Wth 0.36m; H 0.4m) in the centre of the W wall leads into chamber 5. This chamber (dims of main section: 2.13m NW-SE; 1.18m NE-SW; H 0.8m) is irregular in plan. A blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.85m) is visible in the NE side of the chamber. The NW end of the main section of chamber 5 constricts (Wth 0.89m; H 0.56) and slopes up into a curving extension (1.66m E-W; 1.13m N-S; H 0.66m) with a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 1.1m; H 0.58m) at its W end. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballina, 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 high, 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 Ballina.

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 Ballina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballina · Béal an Átha

Area

294,953 m² (29.5 ha, 72.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmichael, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Teerelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

650 people lived in 220 households in the Teerelton electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortacurrig, Moneycusker, Mountmusic, Teerelton

Placenames

Ballina 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.