# Ballindrinan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Draighneáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 536,211 m² (53.62 ha, 132.5 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,682 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Open Space, Amenity and Recreation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/42208 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180067 - Centre: latitude 53.270235, longitude -7.615886 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindrinan, from 112 m² to 209,888 m² (20.99 ha, 51.86 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 277491: 209,888 m² (20.99 ha, 51.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277491.md - Parcel 279949: 96,999 m² (9.7 ha, 23.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279949.md - Parcel 275840: 79,765 m² (7.98 ha, 19.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275840.md - Parcel 305709: 43,062 m² (4.31 ha, 10.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305709.md - Parcel 294264: 41,098 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294264.md - Parcel 307278: 18,911 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307278.md - Parcel 281910: 13,349 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281910.md - Parcel 310227: 6,063 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310227.md - Parcel 291027: 4,329 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291027.md - Parcel 275837: 3,824 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275837.md - Parcel 2536968: 3,540 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2536968.md - Parcel 5785033: 3,255 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5785033.md - Parcel 284197: 2,912 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284197.md - Parcel 4634614: 2,760 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634614.md - Parcel 299733: 2,106 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299733.md - Parcel 313718: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313718.md - Parcel 311580: 1,685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311580.md - Parcel 305123: 551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305123.md - Parcel 306585: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306585.md - Parcel 359424: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359424.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G5 Open 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: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 21 Jan 2026, Offaly County Council 266: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/266/0 - 28 Nov 2025, Offaly County Council 2560605: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, double garage, car port, wastewater treatment system, stormwater soakaways, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560605/0 - 10 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560415: N/a. Permission consequent. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560415/0 - 27 May 2022, Offaly County Council 22270: Conditional. Outline permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22270/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballindrinan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Corcoran's Bridge, bridge, 1800–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14916011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916011. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballindrinan, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1852, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1852.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballindrinan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballindrinan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballindrinan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballindrinan 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) - Loughroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/loughroe.md - Rahan Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rahan-demesne.md - Roscore Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roscore-demesne.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/ballindrinan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballindrinan