Ballindrinan

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindrinan, from 112 m² to 209,888 m² (20.99 ha, 51.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 266

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, double garage, car port, wastewater treatment system, stormwater soakaways, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560605

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  the grant of outline permission (Ref. No. PL2/22/270 outline permission) for development at Ballindrinan, Rahan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. The development will consist of construction of a new dwelling house, double garage, car port, wastewater treatment system, stormwater soakaways, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission consequent · Offaly County Council, 2560415

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 22270

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: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballindrinan.

Architectural heritage

• Corcoran's Bridge, bridge, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry stone bridge, built c.1804, over the Grand Canal. Random rubble walls with tooled string course. Dressed voussoirs to semi-elliptical arch profile. West parapet coped with dressed limestone clocks. East parapet wall replaced with tubular steel railing. Humped deck.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1852 (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 Ballindrinan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballindrinan · Baile an Draighneáin

Area

536,211 m² (53.62 ha, 132.5 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahan electoral division: 753 people in 243 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Loughroe, Rahan Demesne, Roscore Demesne

Placenames

Ballindrinan 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.