Ballincor Demesne

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincor Demesne, from 3,606 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 1,957,478 m² (195.75 ha, 483.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Ballincor Demesne 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballincor Demesne in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Sharavogue Bog SAC 000585
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sharavogue Bog 000585

Recorded monuments

• OF038-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 33m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank reduced in most places to a scarp (ext. H 1.7m), fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.7m) with possible evidence of an external bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m) visible from S to W. The defences of the site are destroyed from NE through E to SE due to recent land improvements. 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

• OF038-044 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Late 18th-century two storey house with hipped roof built onto the front of an early 18th century house with architraved doorcase with scroll keystone. 1769 datestone on outhouses which are connected to late 18th-century house with house to rear pre-dating front house. 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

• Ballincor, country house, 1745–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1765, with three-bay to three-storey rear elevation and projecting central entrance bay. Set within demesne with outbuildings to rear yard, farmyard, walled gardens and gate lodge. Hipped tiled roof with teracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone plinth course and ogee-profile cornice. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with limestone pedimented surround comprising Doric entablature supported by engaged Doric columns and a timber panelled and glazed double door. Door accessed up limestone steps. Round-headed door opening to rear elevation with channelled limestone surround with keystone accesses recessed entrance. Rear yard accessed through square roughcast rendered piers with limestone ogee-profile coping surmounted by stone urns supported wrought-iron double gates. Single- and two-storey outbuildings and coach house to rear yard with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Garden elevation of coach house with ashlar limestone carriage arch openings beneath pediment with semi-circular window opening and date plaque. Walled garden to north-east of house. Stone farm buildings to farmyard with yellow brick dressings. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to road with entrance porch and pebbledashed walls.

• Sharavogue Bridge, bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry bridge, constructed c.1850, carrying the Sharavogue Shinrone road over the Little Brosna River. Rock-faced sandstone parapets with rusticated quoins. Dressed string course. Segmental profile arch. Rusticated voussoirs. Roughly dressed blocks to spandrels. Parapets coped with dressed limestone blocks. Wing walls of sandstone blocks.

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 Ballincor Demesne.

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 Ballincor Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballincor Demesne · Baile an Churraigh

Area

2,139,870 m² (213.99 ha, 528.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurryely, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Ballincor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballincor electoral division: 185 people in 63 households; 92% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamoe, Boveen, Cloonaheen, Curralanty, Gortavally, Rath Beg, Rathcahill, Sharavogue, Tubbrid

Placenames

Ballincor Demesne 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.