Ballina

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 154 m² to 344,662 m² (34.47 ha, 85.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  demolishing an existing cottage and shed building, and permission to construct a new single storey dwelling house, new domestic garage, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660028

• 17 Jan 2026N/a

  the demolition of an existing cottage and shed building, and permission to construct a new single storey dwelling house, new domestic garage, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660020

• 3 Mar 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, new garage, new vehicular entrance, new effluent treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560055

• 30 Oct 2024N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, new garage, new vehicular entrance, new effluent treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460425

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER, A BORED WELL, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21473

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, THE INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21242

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC 000572
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog 000572

Recorded monuments

• OF008-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-S ridge in an area of undulating countryside. Large circular area (diam 60m E-W; 65m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank (int. H. 0.2m Wth 1m); fosse (Wth 1.5m; int. D 1.7m; ext. D 0.2m) with slight traces of an external bank (Wth 2m) which is only visible at S and W. The site has been planted with trees and a dry stone wall has been built against the outer face of the ringforts bank with a modern gate pillar erected in the E sector. The interior of the site slopes from E to W. Monitoring was carried out under licence no. 02E0584 during the excavation of foundation trenches for an extension at the rear of a house at Ballina, Ballycumber, Co. Offaly. The site is near a ringfort. The dwelling, a Georgian house, previously functioned as Ballina Rectory and is now a farmhouse. Examination of the first-edition OS 6-inch map (1841) showed that the ringfort was cultivated as a garden associated with the house. The extension was being constructed on what had been a concrete yard behind the house. The yard was at the same level as the basement of the house and was therefore much lower than the ground in the rest of the site. The extension was being built to the north and north-west of the house, on both the lowered and the original ground levels. No archaeological remains were uncovered during the excavation works. Áine Richardson, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Unit 2F, Dungarvan Business Park, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF008-036 House - 17th century
  Description

  Early 17th centurymap in the Public Record Office (PRO M PF/268) shows 3 dwellings within this townland (Loeber 1988, vol. 1, 13-14). The OS has an area maked Bawn on the current ed. OS 6-inch map. Today this is the site of a 19th century hosue which the owner says was built in the seventeenth century. No fabric of 17th centurybuilding is visible. Current house may have been built on the site of the 17th century houses. These lands are classed as Protestant lands in the Books of Survey and Distribution when the townland is listed as 'Ballinrath' (RIA, MS G IV, 2) and may have been in the possession of Lawrence Hammond of Rahan's land (Loeber 1988, vol. 1, 13-14). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF008-037001 Burial ground
  Description

  Long rectangular shaped graveyard with no evidence of any church, headstones date from 18th to 19th century. No features of archaeological importance inside graveyard. Described in 1977 as 'long narrow burial ground approx. 58m long by East-West by 17m N-S at its widest part. The burial ground is surrounded by a stone wall. There is no visible trace of a church. In the western end of the graveyard is a stone wall enclosing a rectangular area the private burial ground of the 'Featherstone H' family. Inside the wall of the burial ground on the south is what appears to be a bullaun stone (OF008-037002-). This is set in a depression in the ground and is full of water. The sides and top of the stone are now covered with earth and grass making it impossible to examine the stone in detail. This appears to be a 17th or 18th century burial ground. It is still in use' (ASI file 1977). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF008-037002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Unable to locate bullaun stone that was located in S quadrant of graveyard (OF008-037001-). Described in 1977 as 'long narrow burial ground approx. 58m long by East-West by 17m N-S at its widest part. The burial ground is surrounded by a stone wall. There is no visible trace of a church. In the western end of the graveyard is a stone wall enclosing a rectangular area the private burial ground of the 'Featherstone H' family. Inside the wall of the burial ground on the south is what appears to be a bullaun stone. This is set in a depression in the ground and is full of water. The sides and top of the stone are now covered with earth and grass making it impossible to examine the stone in detail. This appears to be a 17th or 18th century burial ground. It is still in use' (ASI file 1977). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballina House, farm house, 1650–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1650 and altered c.1780, around courtyard with outbuildings. Extension to rear. Set within own grounds. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with rendered quoins. Replacement uPVC stone windows with stone sills. Entrance to first floor accessed by tooled stone steps with wrought-iron railings. Replacement square-headed door opening with timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight. Segmental-headed carriage arch with wrought-iron gates. Random coursed stone walls outbuildings with pitched slate roofs. Segmental-arched carriage openings with yellow brick surrounds to outbuildings. Random rubble gate piers to side of house.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1826 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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. Offaly.

Name

Ballina · Baile an Átha

Area

3,869,897 m² (386.99 ha, 956.27 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Bawn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bawn electoral division: 353 people in 116 households; 93% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybruncullin, Bohernagrisna, Clonshanny, Derries, Derryesker, Erry (Armstrong), Erry (Maryborough), Goldsmithslot, Kilpatrick

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.