Ballinla

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinla, from 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 1,201,391 m² (120.14 ha, 296.87 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinla 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.

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a livestock underpass under the L5006, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660402

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  a livestock underpass under the L5006, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660391

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  construction of an A-Roof shed (agricultural building), permission to construct a soiled water/slurry lagoon and associated site works. (This application is within the curtilage of a protected structure Ref 16-15 Ballinla House)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560200

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A-ROOF (AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS) TO INCLUDE A MILKING PARLOUR / CALF REARING PEN / FEED STORAGE, COW COLLECTING YARD, 2 NO. COW CUBICLE SHEDS, SILAGE PIT, SLURRY LAGOON, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. (THIS APPLICATION IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF 16-15 BALLINLA HOUSE)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21190

• 12 Mar 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A-ROOF SHEDS (AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS) TO INCLUDE A MILKING PARLOUR / CALF REARING PEN / FEED STORAGE, COW COLLECTING YARD, 2 NO COW CUBICLE SHEDS, SILAGE PIT, SLURRY LAGOON, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. (THIS APPLICATION IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF 16-15 BALLINLA HOUSE)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21126

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 Ballinla.

Architectural heritage

• Ballinla House, farm house, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1842, on an L-shaped plan; two-bay (south) or single-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Disused, 2004. Hip-topped hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having concrete capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Camber-headed central door opening in camber-headed recess with two cut-limestone steps, rendered block-and-start surround centred on keystone having chamfered rebated reveals framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having gabled capping supporting wrought iron-detailed looped flat iron double gates.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballinla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballinla · Baile an Leá

Area

1,617,764 m² (161.78 ha, 399.76 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteroris, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Monasteroris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasteroris electoral division: 892 people in 302 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrittan, Ballyfore Big, Clarkville, Leitrim, Lumville, Rogerstown, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballinla 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.