Ballindrinnan
Ballindrinnan is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyboy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Baile an Daingin.
- Area
- 133.7 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 26,503 m² (2.65 ha, 6.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindrinnan, from 795 m² to 258,321 m² (25.83 ha, 63.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballindrinnan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jun 2017Conditional
FOR CONVERSION OF A STORAGE SHED TO MUSIC AND GAMES ROOMS ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17210
29 Mar 2017N/a
CHANGE OF USE FROM STORAGE SHED TO ARTIST STUDIO ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17105
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballindrinnan.
Recorded monuments
- OF031-023 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 169/70; 399/400) shows cropmark of large circular enclosure. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballindrinnan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballindrinnan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballindrinnan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballindrinnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballindrinnan · Baile an Daingin
- Area
- 1,336,601 m² (133.66 ha, 330.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyboy
- Electoral division
- Derrinboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 334 people lived in 111 households in the Derrinboy electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacarrig, Cadamstown, Coolacrease, Knockhill and Drinagh, Luganiska
- Placenames
- Ballindrinnan 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.