Ballina

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 414 m² to 596,370 m² (59.64 ha, 147.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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.

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a temporary, non-severable ancillary family-care unit for the medical accommodation of the applicant’s dependent mother, to remain in single ownership and use with the existing dwelling, together with an upgrade of the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660406

• 20 Apr 2026Refused

  the construction of a detached, single-storey prefabricated ancillary accommodation unit located to the side of the existing dwelling, together with a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to serve both the existing house and the proposed unit, connection to the existing mains water supply on site, and all associated site works and services. The proposed unit is fully ancillary to the main house and will remain in single ownership and use with the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660201

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling (170.3sqm), a domestic garage (45.3sqm) and a domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought to install a secondary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560128

• 4 Nov 2021N/a

  OF MOBILE HOME TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE (5) YEARS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21685

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18313

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina.

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

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

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: 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 · Béal an Átha

Area

732,750 m² (73.28 ha, 181.07 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Cappancur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagharvey, Ballycollin, Ballyknockan, Killellery

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.