Ballinvoher

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvoher, from 1,228 m² to 452,243 m² (45.22 ha, 111.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Ballinvoher 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.

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, RELOCATION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20601

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  A DORMER STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, MOBILE HOME, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18575

• 3 Dec 2018N/a

  DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, MOBILE HOME, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18536

• 11 May 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18207

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinvoher.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvoher.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and plastic conduit to ridge and twine to eaves and having rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast stone walls. Timber sash windows. Porch with flat corrugated iron roof and timber battened door. A further bay at west end collapsed 1998. Sited at right angles to public road with farmyard to three sides comprising stone and concrete outbuildings with lean-to and barrel-shaped corrugated-iron roofs. Rendered concrete wall to road boundary with stile.

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 Ballinvoher.

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

Name

Ballinvoher · Baile an Bhóthair

Area

783,714 m² (78.37 ha, 193.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykean, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Down, Raheen, Sranure, Urney

Placenames

Ballinvoher 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.