Ballinamoe
Ballinamoe is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurryely, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha na mBó.
- Area
- 109.5 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 7,801 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinamoe, from 201 m² to 236,560 m² (23.66 ha, 58.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballinamoe 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
22 Jun 2025Conditional
an existing domestic garage. 2. Retention permission for an existing modular structure stable shed. 3. Retention permission for size and elevation changes to previously approved dwelling on planning reference number 061396. 4. Permission is also sought for revision of existing site boundaries of land in ownership which include an existing agricultural entrance and land adjoining the site at Ballinamoe, Shinrone, Co Offaly.
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560256
11 Jun 2024Conditional
(A) stables as constructed, (B) Retention of Fuel Storage shed with secure store room as constructed, and (C) retention of storage shed as constructed, with all associated site works
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460218
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 Ballinamoe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinamoe.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1680–1720 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse, built c.1700, with single-bay addition to west. Located perpendicular to the road within a farm yard with outbuildings to east and south. Corrugated-iron roof, slate to additional bay, with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Site enclosed behind rendered walls and piers and a wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
- Ballincor National School, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey mass concrete national school, built c.1885, with entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystack, open eaves and cat-slide roof to entrance porch. Rendered walls with timber name plaque. Square-headed window openings with timber casement and pivot windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Disused toilets to north of house. Front site enclosed by rendered wall, limestone piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. School closed c.1966.
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 Ballinamoe, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinamoe.
- 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 Ballinamoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinamoe · Béal Átha na mBó
- Area
- 1,095,029 m² (109.5 ha, 270.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurryely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Electoral division
- Ballincor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 185 people lived in 63 households in the Ballincor electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincor Demesne, Cloonaheen, Gortavally, Lacka (Co. Tipperary), Skehanagh (Co. Tipperary), Snugborough, Wingfield (Co. Tipperary)
- Placenames
- Ballinamoe 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.