Ballinvreena
Ballinvreena is a townland in the civil parish of Emlygrennan, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhrianaigh.
- Area
- 61.9 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,407 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvreena, from 57 m² to 137,222 m² (13.72 ha, 33.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballinvreena 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 2026N/a
extension of an existing overground slurry store to include a cover and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 26191
17 May 2019Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling along with refurbishment works including raising the floor level of part of the dwelling, minor elevational alterations including solar panels to front and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19495
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 Ballinvreena.
Recorded monuments
- LI048-036 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, with curving field-boundary to E. Shown on the 1897 ed. 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 28m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by a scarp with external fosse from NW-N-E-SE. Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by trees with external fosse from NW-N-E-SE, trace of fosse visible at S on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/10/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 August 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinvreena.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinvreena, 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 Ballinvreena.
- 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 Ballinvreena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvreena · Baile an Bhrianaigh
- Area
- 619,436 m² (61.94 ha, 153.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emlygrennan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Emlygrennan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balline, Ballinvreena, Ballynahinch, Cush
- Placenames
- Ballinvreena 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.