Ballindown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindown, from 70 m² to 390,517 m² (39.05 ha, 96.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballindown 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.

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 40MW COMPRISING ON CA. 122,904 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 38KV SUBSTATION (CA. 144.4M2 X 4.75M TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA. 18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M), WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, 1 NO. ATTENUATION POND, LANDSCAPING ENHANCEMENT AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA. 70.2HA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21227

• 16 Jun 2020N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 40MW COMPRISING OF A CA. 122,904 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 38KV SUBSTATION (CA.114.4M2 X 4.75M TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA.18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M), WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING ( 11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA 70.2HA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20223

• 22 May 2020N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 40MW COMPRISING OF A CA. 122,904 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 38KV SUBSTATION (CA.114.4M2 X 4.75M TALL) AND A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA.18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M), WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO.SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING ( 11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO.SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES AND PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA 70.2HA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20190

• 1 May 2020N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 40MW SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING OF A CA. 122,904 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 38KV SUBSTATION (CA.114.4M2 X 4.75M TALL) AND A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA.18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M), WHICH INCORPORATE THE INVERTERS AND THE TRANSFORMERS WITHIN THE SAME UNIT, 1 NO.SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING ( 11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO.SINGLE STOREY APPLICANT BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE CONTAINER (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES; AND PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA 70.2HA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20161

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Woodville Woods 000927

Recorded monuments

• OF035-002001 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Unlocted possible deserted medieval settlement associated with the castle (OF035-002002-) at Ballindown as mentioned in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, vol. 1, 98, 101; Vol. 2, 9-10). 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

• OF035-002002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on wet marshy land on the W side of a small lake or turlough. Isolated fragments of upstanding walls survive in places which may be the remains of Ballindown Castle, no ground plan or any idea of the shape or size of the castle could be ascertained from the remains. Site of an O' Carroll castle (Cooke 1875, 25-6; O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 98, 101; vol. 2, 9-10).). 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

• OF035-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the end of a high esker ridge running E-W in undulating countryside. Large circular area (diam. 77m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with a deep wide intervening fosse (Wth 4.5m; ext. D 3.4m) with original causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at E, with modern gap at W (Wth 2.3m). The inner bank (Wth varies 2.5m - 4m; int. H 2.3m; ext. H 5.5m - 4m) is best preserved with outer bank visible only at S, elsewhere it is reduced to a scarp. The natural fall of the ridge at N forms part of the ringforts outer defences. There is a wide shallow depression in the N sector of the interior of unknown origin. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 16 December 1988. 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. Compiled & revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 19 December 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballindown.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1645 (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 Ballindown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballindown · Baile an Dúnaidh

Area

1,531,467 m² (153.15 ha, 378.43 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Birr Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Birr Rural electoral division: 1,300 people in 478 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaguilsha, Ballywilliam, Bogderries, Boolinarig Little, Boolinarig School Land, Woodfield or Tullynisk

Placenames

Ballindown 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.