Balliver

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balliver, from 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 823,603 m² (82.36 ha, 203.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Balliver 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Balliver in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Banagher (Domestic Dwelling, Occupied) 000567

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balliver.

Architectural heritage

• Balliver House, country house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1730 with pair of full-height bows to façade, walled garden to south-west and farmyard to south. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, conical roof to bows, roughcast rendered chimneystack and cast-iron and lead rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to façade, roughcast render to rear and side elevations, smooth rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Large fixed pane window and paired sash window to ground floor of bows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround and glazed double doors under limestone portico with frieze and cornice supported by Doric columns and pilasters and limestone entrance platform. Timber and glazed porch to east elevation surmounting rendered plinth with limestone coping. Square-headed door opening with timber pilastered doorcase supporting frieze and cornice. Timber louvred double doors with overlight. Round-headed door opening to west elevation with tooled stone surround and spoked fanlight. Replacement timber door with brick infill, accessed by concrete steps. West elevation accessed through segmental-headed carriage arch. Walled garden to south-west with random coursed stone walls with some yellow brick to internal walls. Former farmyard to south with pitched slate roof with bellcote to south elevation and modern farm buildings. Entrance gates to north-west and south-east of house. Gates to south-east with tooled limestone plinth surmounted by cast-iron railings, square-profile gate piers and cast-iron gates. Gates to north-west with rendered gate piers and cast-iron 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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1616 (ZIP).

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

Name

Balliver · Baile Íomhair

Area

1,955,486 m² (195.55 ha, 483.21 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Shannonharbour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinkee, Carrick, Coolfin, Curraghlahan, Dernafanny, Guernal, Park, Timolin

Placenames

Balliver 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.