# Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmurryely, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Churraigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,139,870 m² (213.99 ha, 528.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 91,359 m² (9.14 ha, 22.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmurryely, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilmurryely.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Ballincor, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41760 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180062 - Centre: latitude 53.022588, longitude -7.933857 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 310300: 1,957,478 m² (195.75 ha, 483.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310300.md - Parcel 274974: 159,114 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274974.md - Parcel 4820175: 23,605 m² (2.36 ha, 5.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4820175.md - Parcel 292061: 3,606 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292061.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballincor Demesne in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Sharavogue Bog SAC, site code 000585, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000585 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sharavogue Bog, site code 000585 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF038-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF038-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF038-044----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballincor, country house, 1745–1785, Regional interest, registry number 14938019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14938019. 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, registry number 14938021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14938021. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/offaly/ballincor-demesne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballincor-demesne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballincor-demesne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinamoe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinamoe.md - Boveen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boveen.md - Cloonaheen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloonaheen.md - Curralanty: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curralanty.md - Gortavally: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortavally.md - Rath Beg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rath-beg.md - Rathcahill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathcahill.md - Sharavogue: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sharavogue.md - Tubbrid: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tubbrid.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/offaly/ballincor-demesne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballincor-demesne