Ballingorraun

110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingorraun, from 733 m² to 403,871 m² (40.39 ha, 99.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballingorraun 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.

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  DWELLING , GARAGE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21646

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: Ballintemple Bog 000882

Recorded monuments

• OF046-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Present remains consist of a quarry with no archaeological features visible, depicted as a circular ringfort on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map but as a partially levelled monument on the current edition of the 6-inch map. 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

• OF046-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted on the first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a small 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 Ballingorraun.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballingorraun, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballingorraun.

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.

No address of the register names Ballingorraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballingorraun · Baile an Gharráin

Area

2,443,541 m² (244.35 ha, 603.81 acres)

Civil parish

Cullenwaine, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cullenwaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Clynoe, Cullenwaine, Island, Knockaspur, Rath, Rosdrehid, Silverhill, Snugborough

Placenames

Ballingorraun 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.