# Ballina, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Béal an Átha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 587,648 m² (58.76 ha, 145.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,245 m² (2.72 ha, 6.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cashel, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/cashel.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Cashel East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 278 people lived in 114 households in the Cashel East electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32548 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130079 - Centre: latitude 53.596033, longitude -7.91938 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 128,881 m² (12.89 ha, 31.85 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 80484: 128,881 m² (12.89 ha, 31.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80484.md - Parcel 53719: 113,670 m² (11.37 ha, 28.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53719.md - Parcel 53718: 103,523 m² (10.35 ha, 25.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53718.md - Parcel 80635: 86,221 m² (8.62 ha, 21.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80635.md - Parcel 52813: 70,465 m² (7.05 ha, 17.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52813.md - Parcel 80485: 30,128 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80485.md - Parcel 64117: 24,362 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64117.md - Parcel 80199: 15,642 m² (1.56 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80199.md - Parcel 5854328: 4,022 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5854328.md - Parcel 65819: 4,012 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65819.md - Parcel 65435: 3,557 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65435.md - Parcel 4869079: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869079.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 13 Aug 2025, Longford County Council 2560174: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the proposed construction of a two-storey type dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560174/0 - 3 Mar 2021, Longford County Council 2157: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new two-storey dwelling with single storey living area to the south, associated detached single car garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2157/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballina. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballina, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballina. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballina.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballina.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballina.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caltragh Beg: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-beg.md - Caltragh More: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-more.md - Cormaglava: https://everytownland.com/longford/cormaglava.md - Cornadowagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/cornadowagh.md - Cornaguillagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/cornaguillagh.md - Derrygowna: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrygowna.md - Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/streamstown-130841.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballina - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ballina