# Ballinla, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monasteroris, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Leá. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,617,764 m² (161.78 ha, 399.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,540 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monasteroris, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/monasteroris.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Monasteroris, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 892 people lived in 302 households in the Monasteroris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/41723 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180071 - Centre: latitude 53.333054, longitude -7.13569 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 313938: 1,201,391 m² (120.14 ha, 296.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313938.md - Parcel 313939: 394,097 m² (39.41 ha, 97.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313939.md - Parcel 285530: 5,447 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285530.md - Parcel 4898798: 4,762 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898798.md - Parcel 309717: 2,540 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309717.md - Parcel 270981: 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270981.md - Parcel 285529: 2,362 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285529.md - Parcel 313789: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313789.md - Parcel 299439: 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299439.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 30 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660402: N/a. Permission. construction of a livestock underpass under the L5006, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660402/0 - 23 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660391: N/a. Permission. a livestock underpass under the L5006, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660391/0 - 26 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2560200: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560200/0 - 8 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21190: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21190/0 - 12 Mar 2021, Offaly County Council 21126: N/a. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21126/0 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 Ballinla. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballinla House, farm house, 1840–1845, Regional interest, registry number 14911015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14911015. 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. ## 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 Ballinla, about 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/ballinla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballinla 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) - Ballybrittan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballybrittan.md - Ballyfore Big: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyfore-big.md - Clarkville: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clarkville.md - Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/offaly/leitrim.md - Lumville: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lumville.md - Rogerstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rogerstown.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thomastown.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/ballinla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ballinla